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He;s been mowing an older couples lawn for about the last five years and doing errands for them etc. Well to the communities misfortune, the elderly Mr. James past away a month ago. Mrs. James had mentioned that she didn't want the boat anymore, it was taking up space and it reminded her too much of "Billy". So, my nephew inquired to her if she wanted to sell it, and she said yes, she would. He asked her how much she wanted for it, and she countered with "how much do you think it's worth? My nephew told her that it wasn't his boat it was hers. and that was a decision for her to make. "I'll tell you what. I know it's worth more than $500.00 but you've been kind to us. For you? I'd take $500.00..." So, he bought it, and promised he'd take excellent care of it. get this. 16 ft. jon boat with wheel steering . fish finder. all the tackle, rods, live well, "Sears" trolling motor , bench and front swivel seat, two batteries , trailer, and 20 hp Evinrude! Even thought it sat for about 4 years. It's going to need new batteries, lower end work (impeller and oil) He's so proud of it, and the cool part is this I told him this weekend, we'll work on it and next weekend we'll hit the river with it and see what it will do. |
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![]() wrote in message ups.com... Good deal too! He;s been mowing an older couples lawn for about the last five years and doing errands for them etc. Well to the communities misfortune, the elderly Mr. James past away a month ago. Mrs. James had mentioned that she didn't want the boat anymore, it was taking up space and it reminded her too much of "Billy". So, my nephew inquired to her if she wanted to sell it, and she said yes, she would. He asked her how much she wanted for it, and she countered with "how much do you think it's worth? My nephew told her that it wasn't his boat it was hers. and that was a decision for her to make. "I'll tell you what. I know it's worth more than $500.00 but you've been kind to us. For you? I'd take $500.00..." So, he bought it, and promised he'd take excellent care of it. get this. 16 ft. jon boat with wheel steering . fish finder. all the tackle, rods, live well, "Sears" trolling motor , bench and front swivel seat, two batteries , trailer, and 20 hp Evinrude! Even thought it sat for about 4 years. It's going to need new batteries, lower end work (impeller and oil) He's so proud of it, and the cool part is this I told him this weekend, we'll work on it and next weekend we'll hit the river with it and see what it will do. What a great catch. Teach him well and keep him safe. Step #1 - a boating safety class for him. Step #2 - make sure he is insured! ;-) |
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Oh yes, Jim.
I'm going to do what I can to make sure he knows whats going on. I want him to be safe, and have fun. He's pretty good with handling a boat, though. He's been out wwith me int he CCraft enough to watch where he's going, courtesy to other boaters. being responsible to wear a life vest, and MAKING SURE his guests do the same. I'm going to make sure to stress to be compliant with all state and local laws, with tags and ins. as well. JimH wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Good deal too! He;s been mowing an older couples lawn for about the last five years and doing errands for them etc. Well to the communities misfortune, the elderly Mr. James past away a month ago. Mrs. James had mentioned that she didn't want the boat anymore, it was taking up space and it reminded her too much of "Billy". So, my nephew inquired to her if she wanted to sell it, and she said yes, she would. He asked her how much she wanted for it, and she countered with "how much do you think it's worth? My nephew told her that it wasn't his boat it was hers. and that was a decision for her to make. "I'll tell you what. I know it's worth more than $500.00 but you've been kind to us. For you? I'd take $500.00..." So, he bought it, and promised he'd take excellent care of it. get this. 16 ft. jon boat with wheel steering . fish finder. all the tackle, rods, live well, "Sears" trolling motor , bench and front swivel seat, two batteries , trailer, and 20 hp Evinrude! Even thought it sat for about 4 years. It's going to need new batteries, lower end work (impeller and oil) He's so proud of it, and the cool part is this I told him this weekend, we'll work on it and next weekend we'll hit the river with it and see what it will do. What a great catch. Teach him well and keep him safe. Step #1 - a boating safety class for him. Step #2 - make sure he is insured! ;-) |
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"MGG" wrote in news:ZcLQg.5109$7I1.122
@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net: There's nothing like your first boat! I bet your son loved the old boat more than he does the new one everyone is scared to death they're gonna make that first scratch on. I hate new boats for that reason. It's a BOAT to enjoy, not a work of art that must be protected like the Mona Lisa, spending every waking hour polishing and cleaning and trying to make absolutely sanitary in every way. Oh, I hate to go aboard those things. My first boat was a big, ol' oak rowboat from my grandfather, my Chrismas present when I was 8. Christmas on Owasco Lake in upstate NY is a terrible time to give a little kid a rowboat. I opened all the presents with my cousins at my grandparent's house on the lake, always a family reunion if the snow wasn't too deep to get there. The men would have gone hunting on my grandfather's dairy farm the day before and spent that day preparing the pheasants for cooking, a family tradition now long lost. So, I'm done opening the few presents I got and wondered why my grandparents hadn't given me anything. After everyone had cleaned up Grandma's living room and the adults were hugging their coffee cups, my grandfather calls me over to that wicker rocking chair I grew up in and hands me this little ring box all wrapped up and says, "Merry Christmas, Larry". I opened the box and in it was a rusty padlock key on a little chain. "What does this go to?", I asked. "Oh, you'll have to find a lock it fits, but it's here at the lake, somewhere.", he said with a smirk at my dismay. I tried it in all the locks I could find and it didn't fit. "Wait, I think the snow may have covered a few more.", he said. The men went out to his odd little double garage, one side for the car and his workbench, the other side a little garage to store the boats in winter. They shoveled the new snow away from the garage so the door would open, and the key fit perfectly, of course. OPening the door, I found the old oak rowboat, all restored in secret by my grandfather. It was painted the same green as the tables at our state park because my grandfather knew someone. The gunwale and inside was sanded and varnished to a beautiful shine, hundreds of tiny wooden ribs perfectly curved to fit the hull which formed the deck. There were 3 seats. One to sit and steer the outboard tiller, one in the middle to row with the matching varnished oars in there gleaming brass oarlocks and a little one up in the bow. On the stern was an antique Elto tiny outboard motor I learned in the spring would bite you really hard if your and got too far over the gas tank near the spark plug's knurled screw that held the spark wire onto. Of course, the rope wrapped around the fully exposed flywheel in the little groove to start it and the spark handle stuck out from under it to set the precision timing. There was a little cam under it that opened the throttle plate on the tiny float carb. A one quart gascan for refilling the 1 quart gas tank I always forgot to open the vent screw on completed the massive 1hp power plant. One of my grandfather's life-long friends gave him the motor that had been stored for years. The two of them totally disassembled it and restored it like new, even finding the Elto logos that made it look original. I suppose it was as much their boat as it was mine. They came out several hours later to retrieve me from my Christmas present before the frostbite killed me. It would be months before the lake melted enough to roll Grandpa's dock out into the lake on its big steel wheels before I could launch the boat, having Christmas morning all over again. Of course, it sank until the wood swelled and sealed itself. I bailed for days with a coffee can...(c; I had all the latest safety equipment....a whistle, a floating boat cushion with two cloth handles, the gas can to get home and a snack from Grandma. When I joined the Navy in 1964 to avoid being drafted for cannon fodder in Vietnam, the boat was handed down to my cousin, Stevie, and, like all my other stuff, disappeared. I don't think I want to know what happened to it and spoil my memories of the thousands of hours me and my friends spent tooling around the lake at 5 knots, camping out under it on the rocky shore a long ways from any camps along the railroad's property on the western shore. A lot of fish died in that boat, too, big Bullheads on their way to my grandmother's kitchen. My mother was horrified but didn't put up much of a fuss, as usual. "He'll be fine. I taught him.", my grandfather would tell her....(c; Boot up Google Earth and enter: Moravia, NY, my hometown. There are two roads leading out of town to the northwest, one on each side of The Inlet, the creek that feeds Owasco Lake. Follow the Eastern one towards the lake. Near the SE corner of the lake, a dirt road forks off to the left and ends up at Southeast-On-Owasco, a little lake community of shacks and cottages populated in my youth by factory workers from Smith Corona Typewriters in Groton, NY, and the local workers and farmers from the town, in the mud choked, leech-infested, weed- to-wind-up-on-your-prop, Southeast corner of Owasco Lake. Where the road splits left and right as it enters the community, see that clump of trees hiding an old two-story cottage straight ahead if you were coming down the road? That's where I grew up, mostly. From the time I was about 8 or 9, I rode my bicycle from my parent's home in Moravia's south side, through town to that lakehouse, and back, probably 3 or 4 times a week. I knew every farmyard dog that would come out to chase my bike away....(c; I was the luckiest poor kid on the planet.............. I'm 60, the last one left to go. It's been one helluva ride...... Don't forget to bring your fishin' pole 'cause you CAN'T USE MINE! |
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When I get off work, i gotta go over and pull the dry rotted (flat)
tires off the trailer, and go to Rural King and get some new replacements before we can even tow it. they're junk. Well also check out the wheel bearings to see what they're made of too. I'll let the kid do the work. He's 17 with limited mechanical experience. so it's almost up to him. After we get it home, , we'll put a battery in it and see if it cranks over (it shouldn't be stuck) then I'll look in the carbs, and blow out the lines, and install new filters, and drop the lower unit. My local marine guy is great, he's semi retired, will let me use his books, and naturally all parts will go through him. JimH wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Good deal too! He;s been mowing an older couples lawn for about the last five years and doing errands for them etc. Well to the communities misfortune, the elderly Mr. James past away a month ago. Mrs. James had mentioned that she didn't want the boat anymore, it was taking up space and it reminded her too much of "Billy". So, my nephew inquired to her if she wanted to sell it, and she said yes, she would. He asked her how much she wanted for it, and she countered with "how much do you think it's worth? My nephew told her that it wasn't his boat it was hers. and that was a decision for her to make. "I'll tell you what. I know it's worth more than $500.00 but you've been kind to us. For you? I'd take $500.00..." So, he bought it, and promised he'd take excellent care of it. get this. 16 ft. jon boat with wheel steering . fish finder. all the tackle, rods, live well, "Sears" trolling motor , bench and front swivel seat, two batteries , trailer, and 20 hp Evinrude! Even thought it sat for about 4 years. It's going to need new batteries, lower end work (impeller and oil) He's so proud of it, and the cool part is this I told him this weekend, we'll work on it and next weekend we'll hit the river with it and see what it will do. What a great catch. Teach him well and keep him safe. Step #1 - a boating safety class for him. Step #2 - make sure he is insured! ;-) |
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Larry,
You may be right. While I do try to take good care of the boat, I'm not a fanatic like most new boat owners. When we're out, we have fun. If something gets spilled, we mop it up, and clean it later. If the gelcoat gets scratched (and it has), I'll try to buff it out, but I won't lose sleep over it. If you spend more time detailing your boat than having fun in it...boating's not for you. That was a GREAT story, BTW. I'm somewhat familiar with the area having lived in Auburn for a couple of years about 25 years ago. I dated a gal for a while who's had a place on Skaneatles Lake. Beautiful country...LOUSY weather ![]() That's not entirely true...I do miss all the water in that area. --Mike "Larry" wrote in message ... "MGG" wrote in news:ZcLQg.5109$7I1.122 @newssvr27.news.prodigy.net: There's nothing like your first boat! I bet your son loved the old boat more than he does the new one everyone is scared to death they're gonna make that first scratch on. I hate new boats for that reason. It's a BOAT to enjoy, not a work of art that must be protected like the Mona Lisa, spending every waking hour polishing and cleaning and trying to make absolutely sanitary in every way. Oh, I hate to go aboard those things. My first boat was a big, ol' oak rowboat from my grandfather, my Chrismas present when I was 8. Christmas on Owasco Lake in upstate NY is a terrible time to give a little kid a rowboat. I opened all the presents with my cousins at my grandparent's house on the lake, always a family reunion if the snow wasn't too deep to get there. The men would have gone hunting on my grandfather's dairy farm the day before and spent that day preparing the pheasants for cooking, a family tradition now long lost. So, I'm done opening the few presents I got and wondered why my grandparents hadn't given me anything. After everyone had cleaned up Grandma's living room and the adults were hugging their coffee cups, my grandfather calls me over to that wicker rocking chair I grew up in and hands me this little ring box all wrapped up and says, "Merry Christmas, Larry". I opened the box and in it was a rusty padlock key on a little chain. "What does this go to?", I asked. "Oh, you'll have to find a lock it fits, but it's here at the lake, somewhere.", he said with a smirk at my dismay. I tried it in all the locks I could find and it didn't fit. "Wait, I think the snow may have covered a few more.", he said. The men went out to his odd little double garage, one side for the car and his workbench, the other side a little garage to store the boats in winter. They shoveled the new snow away from the garage so the door would open, and the key fit perfectly, of course. OPening the door, I found the old oak rowboat, all restored in secret by my grandfather. It was painted the same green as the tables at our state park because my grandfather knew someone. The gunwale and inside was sanded and varnished to a beautiful shine, hundreds of tiny wooden ribs perfectly curved to fit the hull which formed the deck. There were 3 seats. One to sit and steer the outboard tiller, one in the middle to row with the matching varnished oars in there gleaming brass oarlocks and a little one up in the bow. On the stern was an antique Elto tiny outboard motor I learned in the spring would bite you really hard if your and got too far over the gas tank near the spark plug's knurled screw that held the spark wire onto. Of course, the rope wrapped around the fully exposed flywheel in the little groove to start it and the spark handle stuck out from under it to set the precision timing. There was a little cam under it that opened the throttle plate on the tiny float carb. A one quart gascan for refilling the 1 quart gas tank I always forgot to open the vent screw on completed the massive 1hp power plant. One of my grandfather's life-long friends gave him the motor that had been stored for years. The two of them totally disassembled it and restored it like new, even finding the Elto logos that made it look original. I suppose it was as much their boat as it was mine. They came out several hours later to retrieve me from my Christmas present before the frostbite killed me. It would be months before the lake melted enough to roll Grandpa's dock out into the lake on its big steel wheels before I could launch the boat, having Christmas morning all over again. Of course, it sank until the wood swelled and sealed itself. I bailed for days with a coffee can...(c; I had all the latest safety equipment....a whistle, a floating boat cushion with two cloth handles, the gas can to get home and a snack from Grandma. When I joined the Navy in 1964 to avoid being drafted for cannon fodder in Vietnam, the boat was handed down to my cousin, Stevie, and, like all my other stuff, disappeared. I don't think I want to know what happened to it and spoil my memories of the thousands of hours me and my friends spent tooling around the lake at 5 knots, camping out under it on the rocky shore a long ways from any camps along the railroad's property on the western shore. A lot of fish died in that boat, too, big Bullheads on their way to my grandmother's kitchen. My mother was horrified but didn't put up much of a fuss, as usual. "He'll be fine. I taught him.", my grandfather would tell her....(c; Boot up Google Earth and enter: Moravia, NY, my hometown. There are two roads leading out of town to the northwest, one on each side of The Inlet, the creek that feeds Owasco Lake. Follow the Eastern one towards the lake. Near the SE corner of the lake, a dirt road forks off to the left and ends up at Southeast-On-Owasco, a little lake community of shacks and cottages populated in my youth by factory workers from Smith Corona Typewriters in Groton, NY, and the local workers and farmers from the town, in the mud choked, leech-infested, weed- to-wind-up-on-your-prop, Southeast corner of Owasco Lake. Where the road splits left and right as it enters the community, see that clump of trees hiding an old two-story cottage straight ahead if you were coming down the road? That's where I grew up, mostly. From the time I was about 8 or 9, I rode my bicycle from my parent's home in Moravia's south side, through town to that lakehouse, and back, probably 3 or 4 times a week. I knew every farmyard dog that would come out to chase my bike away....(c; I was the luckiest poor kid on the planet.............. I'm 60, the last one left to go. It's been one helluva ride...... Don't forget to bring your fishin' pole 'cause you CAN'T USE MINE! |
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"MGG" wrote in
: That was a GREAT story, BTW. I'm somewhat familiar with the area having lived in Auburn for a couple of years about 25 years ago. I dated a gal for a while who's had a place on Skaneatles Lake. Beautiful country...LOUSY weather ![]() California and never looked back. That's not entirely true...I do miss all the water in that area. I always tell everyone it was a great place to grow up....and a great place to be FROM.....as long as I don't have to live there, now.... Moravia now has Auburn's disease...a state prison...a huge state prison! When the political idiots got dollar signs in their heads, they forgot that prisoners take showers and flush toilets...a LOT! The prisoners got even inundating the tiny town with enough sewage to just overrun the place. How stupid. Poor Moravia will never be out little town any more....economically disasterous and a great place to grow up. Moravia's fine tourist resort, that was nothing but a row of trailers in the woods on Lick Street when I was in high school, has grown into a first class nudist resort....in the summer, I suppose: http://www.homestead.com/empirehaven/ When I was in Moravia Central School's high school, "scoring" meant getting your girlfriend to go to Empire Haven for a day...(c; I see from the new webpage they've gotten their own address, but it's still on Lick Street up in the state forest on the hill, which is still very funny. Nice pool! Back quite a few years when it was three rows of old trailers, I met a ham radio operator who lived at Empire Haven year 'round. He was in his 70s. So wasn't my widowed grandmother who lived in the lake house until she was in her late 80's. She moved into the Skaneateles senior citizens home when her kids put their foot down, afraid she'd fall climbing the steep stairs to her bedroom on the lake. So.....she told me she was lonely being all alone, before....so I gave this ham radio operator her number. He called her and they talked for hours. THEN, she called me and was laughing so hard she could hardly talk. "I'm not gonna go up there and get naked with a bunch of old farts!", she told me. He DID put on his clothes and come visit her many times.... She later fell in love with an old pensioner at the Skaneateles home who lived down the hall. She cooked and baked for him, but neither one of them could afford to lose their SSA money getting married. That love affair went on for years until he died of a heart attack. She's gone, too, now and I miss her awful....(snif). Well, I can see you're checking out the webpages in Moravia....carry on....(c; When I call Moravia I always ask them, "What day was Summer, this year??" Tonight: A chance of showers before 2am, then a chance for sprinkles. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. West wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Monday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 59. West wind between 5 and 10 mph. Monday Night: A chance of sprinkles before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. West wind between 7 and 10 mph. Tuesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 63. West wind between 7 and 13 mph. Brrrr......(shudder)...... They tell me it's great because it keeps the MEXICANS OUT! They have a point....(c; Press 1 for English Press 2 to hang up until you LEARN English Press 3 for an immigration agent to help you get HOME. |
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LOL! That about sums up the area. Bummer about the prison though. Small
towns and big prisons are generally not a great mix. I assume however that the prison helps fill the town's bank account, to lessen the tax burden on the residents? I thought of another thing I miss about the area...Field Days! Man, those were alot of fun. Good, wholesome, small town entertainment. No shortage of Mexicans here in San Jose, CA...that's for sure. Hell, I'm married to one (Her mom is Mexican anyway). ![]() --Mike "Larry" wrote in message ... "MGG" wrote in : That was a GREAT story, BTW. I'm somewhat familiar with the area having lived in Auburn for a couple of years about 25 years ago. I dated a gal for a while who's had a place on Skaneatles Lake. Beautiful country...LOUSY weather ![]() California and never looked back. That's not entirely true...I do miss all the water in that area. I always tell everyone it was a great place to grow up....and a great place to be FROM.....as long as I don't have to live there, now.... Moravia now has Auburn's disease...a state prison...a huge state prison! When the political idiots got dollar signs in their heads, they forgot that prisoners take showers and flush toilets...a LOT! The prisoners got even inundating the tiny town with enough sewage to just overrun the place. How stupid. Poor Moravia will never be out little town any more....economically disasterous and a great place to grow up. Moravia's fine tourist resort, that was nothing but a row of trailers in the woods on Lick Street when I was in high school, has grown into a first class nudist resort....in the summer, I suppose: http://www.homestead.com/empirehaven/ When I was in Moravia Central School's high school, "scoring" meant getting your girlfriend to go to Empire Haven for a day...(c; I see from the new webpage they've gotten their own address, but it's still on Lick Street up in the state forest on the hill, which is still very funny. Nice pool! Back quite a few years when it was three rows of old trailers, I met a ham radio operator who lived at Empire Haven year 'round. He was in his 70s. So wasn't my widowed grandmother who lived in the lake house until she was in her late 80's. She moved into the Skaneateles senior citizens home when her kids put their foot down, afraid she'd fall climbing the steep stairs to her bedroom on the lake. So.....she told me she was lonely being all alone, before....so I gave this ham radio operator her number. He called her and they talked for hours. THEN, she called me and was laughing so hard she could hardly talk. "I'm not gonna go up there and get naked with a bunch of old farts!", she told me. He DID put on his clothes and come visit her many times.... She later fell in love with an old pensioner at the Skaneateles home who lived down the hall. She cooked and baked for him, but neither one of them could afford to lose their SSA money getting married. That love affair went on for years until he died of a heart attack. She's gone, too, now and I miss her awful....(snif). Well, I can see you're checking out the webpages in Moravia....carry on....(c; When I call Moravia I always ask them, "What day was Summer, this year??" Tonight: A chance of showers before 2am, then a chance for sprinkles. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. West wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Monday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 59. West wind between 5 and 10 mph. Monday Night: A chance of sprinkles before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. West wind between 7 and 10 mph. Tuesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 63. West wind between 7 and 13 mph. Brrrr......(shudder)...... They tell me it's great because it keeps the MEXICANS OUT! They have a point....(c; Press 1 for English Press 2 to hang up until you LEARN English Press 3 for an immigration agent to help you get HOME. |
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