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[DrEntropy]

Learned to sail when I was a tweener, on Lake Erie. An O'Day Sprite as a trainer. Later, a Ray Green "Rebel" and Lightning class boats. Great fun, I do still love it but have no wallet for a boat and the resources needed to do it right.

Besides, plenty of friends have boats. :wink:

 

[JPSmit]

Learned to sail in a Sunfish - 5 years old. Built a boat out of a Great Lakes Freighter lifeboat with my dad at 14, would still have a boat but lack the time or the resources. That being said, I know where my dad's boat is for sale - needs rebuilding hmmmm... (and so glad my SWMBO doesn't read this forum)

 

[Guest]

That being said, I know where my dad's boat is for sale - needs rebuilding hmmmm... (and so glad my SWMBO doesn't read this forum)

~AND~ it's YOUR BIRTHDAY !!!!!

GO GET IT BRO !!!!!!!


Tell her it's my fault. Seriously, if you're talking about the lifeboat one, go get it.

I do still love it but have no wallet for a boat and the resources needed to do it right.

Besides, plenty of friends have boats. :wink:

Boy, you aint kiddin', it owns you.

You're in the right spot!

 

[Banjo]

Kellysguy beat me to it..... heheheh Happy B-day JP.
The course my parents are taking is half class work, and half out on the lake with a couple of boats, getting the feel for making them move and learning the rules of the road. They've gotten a lot out of it.
Their boat will be docked at Watkins Glen marina, the most common destination for their drives in the MG anyway, about 20 miles from home. and It'll probably get used like a mobile cottage as much as a boat.

 

[GregW]

Learned to sail when I was a tweener, on Lake Erie.

Going for the long shot here (never know until you ask). Did you know any Wilkinsons up there?

 

[AngliaGT]

Steve,

How much money did you make sailing?

- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

Learned to sail when I was a tweener, on Lake Erie.

Going for the long shot here (never know until you ask). Did you know any Wilkinsons up there?

Knew a Wilkinson from mid-state, Warren area. Girl about my age named Sue. Likely not kin to the ones you'd know, but stranger things...

And the shot ain't so long: About four or five years into 'smits current job, one of her co-workers offhandedly mentioned her HS yearbook and was laughing over the hairstyles... turned out she was from Geneva, OH. and I knew at least a dozen people in that book as childhood friends. It is also likely she and I had been to the same dances and events back in the '60's with many friends in common. One of her pals was a neighbor of mine a few houses away!

Have had more than a few of these chance, odd re-acquaintances. 'smits calls it: "Pumping irony."

 

[GregW]

Sue isn't in my branch (that I know of). My dad and his brothers were heavily into boats and MGs back in the day. Uncle Don was in the antique and classic boat society and had a supercharged TC which is still in the family to my knowledge. One of those small world stories: Dad had moved to a small town in Texas and met someone that had been a patient of my grandfather (who was a dentist) in Buffalo NY.

 

[DrEntropy]

Things can get weird quickly. :wink:

Were they in the Cleveland area?

 

[GregW]

Were they in the Cleveland area?

Me clan wasn't/isn't. Don't know about the patient. :smirk: The thing that got my attention was boating and Erie. During prohibition, my grandparents bought land in Canada on a creek that fed to the Niagara. They'd take their boat from Buffalo to the cottage they built on the creek and be able to drink legally. There's always a loophole.

 

[JPSmit]

Were they in the Cleveland area?

Me clan wasn't/isn't. Don't know about the patient. :smirk: The thing that got my attention was boating and Erie. During prohibition, my grandparents bought land in Canada on a creek that fed to the Niagara. They'd take their boat from Buffalo to the cottage they built on the creek and be able to drink legally. There's always a loophole.

On this side of the border, and growing up in Belleville, Corby's Distillery, the boats (before my time BTW) would load up and leave for Cuba - and be back empty next morning. Still looking for that shortcut!

 

[aeronca65t]

......Still looking for that shortcut!

LOL :laugh:

 

[equiprx]

Steve,

How much money did you make sailing?

- Doug

You are joking, right? Back then, it was even illegal to have a logo on your clothes. I guess it cost me about 40-50 grand for about a year and a half. Couldn't even hold down a real job because of the schedule. Worked at a high school in San Francisco as a teachers aid in a class of kids with mental disabilities.

 

[Guest]

Steve,

How much money did you make sailing?

- Doug

I guess it cost me about 40-50 grand for about a year and a half. Worked at a high school in San Francisco as a teachers aid in a class of kids with mental disabilities.

And you got paid enough to spend that much on sailing?

 

[AngliaGT]

Steve,

Strictly tounge-in-cheek!Reminded me of when people would ask
about my SCCA roadracing - "How much money do you make?",to which I'd
reply - "If everthing goes really well...you get a piece of wood with-
your name on it (trophy)".Then they would say something like "Oh,that's-
nice",and back up (slowly) a few steps.

- Doug

 

[equiprx]

Steve,

How much money did you make sailing?

- Doug

I guess it cost me about 40-50 grand for about a year and a half. Worked at a high school in San Francisco as a teachers aid in a class of kids with mental disabilities.

And you got paid enough to spend that much on sailing?

I came into a small inheritance and decided I wanted to burn it on racing a sailboat. I started out broke and ended with exactly the same. The job was only to do a favor for a friend. It was a part time, temporary thing and left afternoons and weekends free.

 

[bgbassplyr]

Steve,

How much money did you make sailing?

- Doug

I guess it cost me about 40-50 grand for about a year and a half. Worked at a high school in San Francisco as a teachers aid in a class of kids with mental disabilities.

And you got paid enough to spend that much on sailing?

I came into a small inheritance and decided I wanted to burn it on racing a sailboat. I started out broke and ended with exactly the same. The job was only to do a favor for a friend. It was a part time, temporary thing and left afternoons and weekends free.

The wages of a wasted youth, lol.

 

[DrEntropy]

Steve,

How much money did you make sailing?

- Doug

I guess it cost me about 40-50 grand for about a year and a half. Worked at a high school in San Francisco as a teachers aid in a class of kids with mental disabilities.

And you got paid enough to spend that much on sailing?

I came into a small inheritance and decided I wanted to burn it on racing a sailboat. I started out broke and ended with exactly the same. The job was only to do a favor for a friend. It was a part time, temporary thing and left afternoons and weekends free.

Well bowled, Steve. In your place it would'a been th' same. A No-Brainer.

Congrats for th' choice and the experience!

:thumbsup: