Erie Canal photos...

[JamesTXSD]

Just a note to thank those responsible for the Erie Canal photos... looks like you had a wonderful time! We are getting closer to "getting fired" (tough to do when you are business owners), and looking forward to doing something like Bill and El. Still not C-Dory owners yet, but enjoying our sailboats in the meantime. Keep those photos of the gatherings coming - it gives many of us out here something to aim towards.

Best wishes,
JamesTXSD

[Captains Cat]

I agree, great pix. Good thing Red Fox wasn't there, he'd have tried this route at about 20 knots, what a ride that would be!

Why wait for the lock when this is open 24x7!!





Charlie

[ffheap]

Hi Folks,

Don't wait!!! I own an Inn on Nantucket with my wife who does not really like boating. (WE courted on a O'day Marina.) When we talked about the Erie Canal cruise, I told her that I was going and she had to hold down the fort. I had a great time, and plan to go to every cruise in the East, at least New England and nearby. I am now in the process of selling a house on Nantucket which will give us the funds to buy the help my wife will need. (I can pay the bills by computer.). I will then spend a lot of time cruising with my 1983 22' C-Dory Angler.

Some things to consider when you get older. (I am a healthy 66 year old kid.) Your joints get stiff. (One Doctor Fiend of mine who taught courses in USPS said that by 70, the joints may not take the cold wet weather.)
My daughter's father-in-law just had a medical exam and they found Cancer. He is also a sailor. A very close friend of mine, (He and I founded the USCGAux Flotilla on Nantucket) died a few years ago. Told me about his cancer on August first, funeral service on Columbus Day Weekend.

I think you get my point. My wife loves the Inn business, I love my C-dory and where it can take me. DON'T WAIT.

Fred Heap

[ccflyer]

Speaking as someone who has fewer tomorrows than yesterdays -

"Carpe Diem" - it's not about how many days we have left - it's about how many healthy days are left!

BTW: hope to run into you on Nantucket Sound next summer - my boat hauler picked up my CD in MD today and is delivering to me tomorrow AM.

Hope to get out on the Sound a couple of days before they pull in my slip for the winter.

[CTYankee]

Hi All,

When we were at Fairport, a local fellow named Tom took some pictures with our camras of all of us in front of the C-Dog banner. We traded email addresses, and he sent me a couple of intersting shots of the canal drained in winter, and the "upside down" bridge in Lockport. I've posted both pics.

He also said we took some pictures of the group with him in the front row. He'd like to have that picture if anyone can find it in their archives.

Tom is a real Erie Canal buff, and has some more intersting shots he'll send our way.

Dun (CTYankee)

[fiddlersgreen6]

Fred- sounds like some good advise, why haven't you signed up for the 2006 Chesapeake gathering? Just watch out for your local deer ticks they can also do you in. Rich

[lloyds]

I'm with ccflyer, go now. And in case you don't have it, pick up a book called "the offshore doctor". And read, and re-read, the chapter on heart attacks. The doctor that wrote it had had three heart attacks and he describes a method to keep your own heart beating during an attack. Since I singlehanded my sailboat almost all the time and was at sea a lot, I read that chapter several times. There is a history of heart disease in my family. I used the method when I was having the attack driving down the freeway. It kept me alive long enough to get off the freeway and to an emergency room, where I was fortunate that the staff was able to revive me. In reading the available information about the great circle trip, and the guys up in alaska, any of us could find ourselves in dire straits in an emergency. Most of us are middle age or beyond, and may have to pay a price for bad behavior in our youth.