04/10 - 04/11 - Cathlamet Cruise

Helen O · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:04 am Post subject:

Mike

I have an annual launch permit for Elochoman Slough Marina, but don't have a slip yet. I'm on the waiting list for one though. Was told there is about a years wait or more for the slip.
Let me know when you're ready for a shakedown. I'll be back on the river as soon as this flood water goes down a bit. I haven't been downriver from here yet and am itching to go. It's 23 miles to W. Basin at Astoria by water.

TyBoo · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:24 am Post subject:

Larry -

You need to cut the corners a little sharper! It seems to me that it was 24 statute miles on the water from the Warrenton entrance to Cathlamet, and it is a couple three miles from Warrenton to the W. Basin. Or maybe that was flying crow miles. Oh, what the... I'll meet you half way.

Here's a good plan. I'll shoot up the ship channel, dork around in the river next to the mill and make faces at them, then stay the night at Cathlamet. The next morning, we can both motor down the inside channels back to Tongue Point. We'll try to hit Astoria mid-afternoon at the end of the ebb. That way, when we come out from behind T. Point and into the main channel, the wind will be howling and the waves breaking. Then we decide if we really want to go on a tuna run.

I will for sure let you know when the boat is floating.

Helen O · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:13 am Post subject:

Wind howling? Shocked

Waves breaking? No way am I headed out tuna fishing if the weather and forecast isn't near perfect.

Hey, they've already caught a few springers. Maybe we can drag a few herring around while we're making faces at the mill. Mr. Green

Check this out, http://meph.eu.org/ It might help pass the time till then.

TyBoo · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:43 am Post subject:

Springers? What's that? You better catch them now, because when I get there, they will be scarce. And when both me an B~C are there, they will be already scaling the dam or heading back out to sea.

I ain't going over no breaking waves. Only did that once, and it was right off of Tongue Point. Two breakers close together. They weren't very tall to the surface, but man, was it deep between them. The dog got sick on that one. Never again. You'll see me pulling out of Cathlamet headed for home by 9:00 am.

Weather and forecast? Did I ever tell you what old Smoky Holmes used to say?

TyBoo · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:45 am Post subject:

That guy batting the penguin kinda looks like Da Nag!

Helen O · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:58 am Post subject:

Okay I'll bite. Who is Smoky Holmes and what did he say?

TyBoo · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:12 am Post subject:

"Only a fool and a tourist predict the weather in the State of Oregon. I've lived here too long to be called a tourist, and I certainly don't profess to being a fool."

Smoky was just some old guy who drove a forklift at the mill when I was a teenager. He always said that when someone would ask what he thought the weather would do.

Now look at this. Here I was trying real hard to cut back on my nonsensical posting, and you've done gone and got me started again. Maybe rehab is in order. Maybe I can become the first reformed C-Brat. Maybe I can even get invited back to some of the places I've been kicked out of. Naw - it ain't worth it.

Helen O · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:28 am Post subject:

Well heck, if ol' Smokey said it, it must be true.

I've come to the conclusion that "No Nonsense" is highly overated. Thumbs Up

Pat Anderson · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:39 pm Post subject:

When pigs fly!!

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:49 am Post subject: hehe

Maybe I'll "March on down" and shake it with you Shocked

I got a lot of old gas to burn and it seems to take longer to burn it these days for some reason, huh Rolling Eyes

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Hey Mike... My Birthday is in March Very Happy

Mr. Fisherman · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: 37 days and counting...

By the way, Only 37 days till this gathering.... Very Happy

Wheeler Dealer · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject:

We are thinking about making this gig. Scanned this thread but didn't see anything about lodging, slips, evening gathering spot, ect....

We are 50/50 right now on these dates working, but we are going to see if we can re-arrange other plans to increase those odds.

I've got a lot to do to get the Denebola Star

fish ready by then but may be able to swing it. Shocked

I just remembered that I need to get a bay kit on my kicker too. Seeing's that we would be fishin' the Lewis & Clark Hiway I could probably trim up the Honda 50 and drag a herring against that current, or anchor and plunk.

It would just be neat gettin' to meet some fellow Pubsters Beer

. Jon

TyBoo · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

WD -

We have always been able to find plenty of slips at the marina in Cathlamet. And everyone's lodging has always been on their boat. You guys will be alright on your CD 16 for an overnighter. Shoot, Lyle used his CD 14 for a boaterhome at Sequim Bay in the dead of winter! But, if your wisdom is greater than your sense of adventure, I'm sure someone can suggest some lodging in the little town.

If you do want to brave the boaterhoming experience, just bring a small electric heater and an extension cord. Shore power is only a buck or two extra, and it seems to me there were plenty of 15 amp outlets.

As for meeting places, there are a couple of great ones.

Here is the town's only bar. As you can see, they had to board it up after the last time the B~C crew hit it, but I think you can still sneak in around back.

Here's a shot of a few of us in the courtyard at City Hall.

You gotta get those odds boosted up a little. I have sense through the tone of some of your previous posts that you guys are natural C-Brats. You're gonna love us!

I've always had trouble keeping the hooks sharp when trolling on the highway.

Since you are Wheeler Dealer with a CD 16 and a Honda 50, how 'bout we just call you WD-50? Aren't you glad you didn't get the Honda 40?

Da Nag · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

Man - how far up the river is that place? Only thing missing from that last photo is a banjo... Laughing

B~C · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject:

Bill, the guy with the banjo is further up the hill. It's definitely a quant little town, not a glitzy tourist town for sure, but it has a nice marina and everything is within walking distance. That picture, one could say, was the first ever C-Brat gathering. Safe to say, things have grown.

Cathalemet...aint no Friday Harbor