The MOOSE is Loose and Rainy Lake Rendezvous?

MOOSE

The MOOSE is loose! After thirty-one years I retired on January 28th from my job as environmental engineer at a paper mill. It was also my 55th birthday and a Friday. I feel as if the alignment of the planets was such that I had no choice. That and the fact that, typical of most companies today, mine has been actively encouraging folks to leave, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes not. So let us just say that our boat gas will be paid for this coming season. Whoever said "living well is the best revenge" was right on the mark.

And since the constraints of time should now not weigh as heavily upon us, and since it has been a while since there has been a gathering of upper midwest C-Dory owners, I would like to gauge the interest in a Labor Day 2005 cruise on Rainy Lake. By then the bugs should have abated. Voyageurs National Park has a first-rate boat launch east of International Falls and great overnight dockage and fueling facilites at Kettle Falls, about 35 miles to the east. Meals can also be had at the historic Kettle Falls Hotel. I can also supply information on applying for a border crossing permit for those who would like to venture into Canadian waters. Detailed charts of the lake are available locally or I can e-mail electronic versions. C-MAP also has a Super-Lake series chart cartridge for Rainy.

Any interest?

Al & Myrna on the MOOSE

Sea Wolf · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject:

Al-

Congradulations on and welcome to RETIREMENT !!!

I've really enjoyed working with you on all our projects the past couple of years, and I'm sure there will be more to come.

Good luck with your cruise plans for Rainy Lake! If it wasn't so far, I'd really like to be part of it. Joe.

Redƒox · Guest

Smokin' a big-ass-stogie for-ya as-we-speak Al Cool

Congrats again bud (stogie icon) Laughing

El and Bill · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Al and Myrna --
Congrats on the retirement -- and a celebration gathering on Rainy Lake sounds like a great idea. We hope to be up in that north country in late summer and Labor Day might just work perfectly. Love cruising that Voyageur area, and double treat to see it with you folks.

For folks who may not be familiar with Moose's beautiful country, take a gander at http://www.geocities.com/bill_fiero/voyageur.htm

C-batical · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: Congratulations

Congratulations Moose;

I retired for the third and final time this past August. I guess some people are slow learners. We have enjoyed some solo cruises and fishing trips on Lakes; Michigan, Erie, and St. Clair. We are planning to make it up to Lake Superior sometime this Summer. Rainy Lake looks interesting.
Please keep me posted.

Thanks,
Rollie/C-Batical

TyBoo · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject:

Al & Myrna -

Congratulations to both of you on the retirement.

I'll bet the pulp mill crew is happy for you, too. Them kraft types don't get along with the enviornmental types too well. Of course, now they will hire some young hotshot to replace you, and the poor millwrights will have to put labels on their coffee cups.

The lake sounds great. You get just one of them midwesterners to join you, and we'll call it a cruise and do it up proud. Signup list, calendar entry, events list announcement, planning thread, photo album, weather manipulation - the works. Maybe we'll even take up a collection and ship Catman back to join you, and you'll have a right official CBGT!

Enjoy the time you have earned!

MOOSE · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks folks, for your kind words.

Greg, Myrna and I lit up those Padron Millenniums last night to celebrate and stunk hell out of the house, but boy were they great!

El and Bill, were you strictly on Kabetogama and Namakan, or did you make it over to the Rainy side? You really did a great job of capturing the character of the country in your pics.

It sounds like we have the germination of a cruise!

Al and Myrna

El and Bill · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:42 am Post subject:

Got over to the Rainy side as well. Marvelous country. We howled for wolves, but all we could hear was snickering back in the bush.

jlynch · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:

Congratulations Al.

I retired once and have the second coming up in a couple of years,
The first retirement party was so much fun I wanted to work for
another one.

Count me in on the Rainy gathering, I'm sure I'll be rigged and ready
by Labor Day. Hope to have had many trips in the area by then.

By the way, thanks again for your help and advise the past months.

Jim