08/20 - 08-26 - Catalina Adventure in Paradise 2006

Sealife · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:35 am Post subject:

Posted a few of Keith's pictures from the birthday party. Thank you all for a great party. You guys are the best!!

oldgrowth · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:04 am Post subject:

Keith - if you add the following code

TyBoo · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:07 am Post subject:

oldgrowth · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:25 am Post subject:

C-Pup16 in Los Angeles · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:00 am Post subject:

Well guys, I had trouble logging on at home on but finally figured it out. Thanks Mike for posting my photos of Catalina. Thanks PJ for offering me the fishing award, but I missed the fishing derby day when taking Kimiko home and you won it fair and square... it was a flying fish that landed in FishTail's cockpit, right? Next year I'll put Kimiko on the ferry if she has to return early and will compete fair & square, and in the the dingy derby,... if Jim can tow his dingy then I can tow my 18 foot rowing catamaran! Also thanks Dave for your interest in my dodger and suggestion to link my sig block to my photo album. Tyboo Mike, Thanks for doing that for me!

I enjoyed today with a Vietnamese family my church sponsored as boat people refugees in 1979 and we've remained close to since then. The children then are all now successful adults with their own families (one's a doctor, one's a dentist, one's a teacher and one's a housewife). After telling them about my fun week at Catalina on C-Pup, they recalled their harrowing escape from Vietnam to Malaysia on a small boat as children with their parents in 1977 . They were lost at sea with no food or water for five days with only one of two motors barely working while the boat took on water and needed constant bailing. They finally came across an oil rig and were reluctantly rescued by the leathernecks and taken by Malaysian Coast Guard to a refugee camp the next day. The boat and crew they had paid their life savings for in advance never showed up at the beach meeting place in the dark of night. Instead, an old fishing boat commanded by the Viet Con approached to arrest them but in the process, the refugees overwhelmed the crew, threw the hard core commies in the drink, and forced the fisherman skipper to take them to sea. Another family on another boat departing from the same beach about the same time was lost at sea in a whirlpool. That's quite another perspective on boating.
~ Keith