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They probably meant gyro stabilized rifle scopes. Harper

There was a news item yesterday that stated abandoned boats are increasingly becoming a navagation hazzard in some parts of the country. The item went on to say that due to the bad economic conditions some are leaving their boats afloat or sinking them rather than continue to pay for...

Jim, This week's strip reminds me of my first trip to the Grand Canyon many years ago. I had an assignment in Phoenix and took a couple of days off before my return east. Drove up to the Canyon and parked, walked down to the first point that looks into the Canyon. As I approached the edge of...

Harvey of "Sleepy C" referred me to www.speedysigns.com. I ordered the boat name and registration numbers and received them in a couple of days. We have not applied them yet but they look great. Harper

Ahhh...Northern Minnesota, one of my most favorite places in the world. I have spent weeks and weeks in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area since the early 70's. Many of the trips were solo. My favorite time is in the Fall but mid-May is also good before the critters fully hatch. During...

El and Bill, What a treat to hear from you. As you surely know you are a main inspiration to us all. Pat and I visit your website frequently and always look forward to new entries. Harper

Thanks Mike, Photos are posted in album. I think I need to experiment with resizing. I took them down to 320 X 240 pixels and that may be too small. Is there a size that is recommended, I didn't see that discussed? Harper

Ken, I already understand what you mean. When we were doing the sea trial it was really windy with spray blowing on the cabin windows. I put the bow down with the trim tabs (really impressed me) and leveled the boat up with them and had a comfortable ride at 15 mph. The same ride in my Lund...

Boris, We are on the complete opposite side of the state from the ICW, I can walk to the Tennessee State line in about 45 minutes. We do plan to cruise the ICW however along with some of the major rivers. Harper

Jim, Thanks. Your thread "Adventures of Wild Blue and Crew" is a big part of this forum and also a large influence on our decision. Hope you will continue to provide your unique perspective and humor even while you are traveling on the hard surface. I know I speak for many of us when I say that...

After lurking on this great site for over two years, renting Marc Grove's 25 Cruse Ship for five days, following the ads, and more recently attempting to deal with the financial market setbacks we finally have a CD 22 Cruiser. The deal was closed on Monday when we completed the purchase and...

Pat and I rented Marc's (Wefings) Cruise Ship #4 (now C-Tide) a couple of years ago for five days. What a great experience. The configuration of the cabin spoiled us, albeit temporarily, for the newer style cruiser layout. The three most important advantages in our view were: (1) the larger head...

Bill, I was also concerned about the tight fit behind the wheel and thought the tilt wheel would be the answer. The new 22's have that as an option and I saw one. Problem is as Dr. Bob pointed out the wheel is much closer, at least three inches, closer to the helm seat. The new models without...

bshillam, Good decision. We have a 2003 4-Runner with almost 80,000 miles and not a single problem. It has the 4 liter V-6 and we get an average of about 19 mpg and we live in the mountains but don't have traffic jams. On the road we get around 23 unloaded. Pulling our 20 foot Lund Alaskan we...

Have to agree with Pat on this. It was one of the few books I didn't finish. In addition to "tedious" I found the author's approach less optimistic and adventurous in spirit than expected for such an endeavor. It was as though the author was reporting the experience in technical historical terms...

I have always favored manual shifters, however, in the last few years they have been unavailable in 1/2 ton trucks. In the Ford and Dodge heavy duty trucks, however, six speed manuals are available with approximately the same towing capacity as the automatics. Does anyone have any comments...

Jim and Joan, Even though I have always been a dog person and have not been especially knowledgeable of cats, Molly elicited a special fondness from me like she did from everyone else here. Thanks for sharing her with us. We also share your loss. Harper

Jim, I belong to a travel trailer forum (single axle) and there was so much adverse discussion about the Marathon tires that the webmaster set up a separate forum title just to address tire problems. The problems were not with wear but tread separation or bulges in the tire with no regard to...

You're welcome! Just about everybody in Spruce Pine knew my grandaddy..."Mack Swann" he passed on in 1986. I spent many a saturday at the pool up Beaver Creek...as well as the "sliding rock" up at the head of Beaver Creek. Dad is from Burnsville...still swears he picked up mom from the hood of...

snal, Thanks much for the info. Do you know if this ban is temporary or permanent? We live in the extreme northern end of Mitchell County near the Tenn. line off NC 261 and own a business in Spruce Pine. I know Beaver Creek and Altapass well. Harper