> [Original Message] > From: John Armstrong <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Date: 9/30/2006 11:41:05 AM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Photos to the list/birds > > Nice web site Chuck... > After all my years Cruising with the Navy, I always thought it would > be nice to take the wife for a cruise to some of those exotic ports I > visited.. Unfortunately, she is not an ocean going type person, and > now we just do our cruising in matching recliners watching the History > Channel, sipping home made wine.. > > Sincerely, > John D > A little So West of North > We used to do some serious blue-water racing with Nightingale until Marilyn got too old to handle the chute and hoist that 40 pound anchor. Cruising is much easier on the old gal and I don't have all of those nasty maintenance jobs anymore. In August we handed over the winning ticket from a raffle at the Lake Superior Maritime Museum and won a weeks use of the owners quarters on a 1000 foot ore carrier. All went well except for when Marilyn was on the bridge going down the St. Marys river and suggested to the mate that he might want to correct a couple of degrees to port to get lined up on the range. He informed her that we were on a two lane road and only blankety-blank pleasure boaters take up a position dead center in the channel. We hauled 65000 tons of ore from Duluth down to Gary and Marilyn gained six pounds in six days. I avoided a similar fate by refusing to step on the scales when we got back ashore. Coming up the Mich. coast we passed close by Point Betsie light, where I kicked off my beer drinking career 53 years ago. Never had a bad cruise but the next one is always the best one. > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > >