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Tom and Joyce, We are planning to be on the St. Johns in February and will schedule ourselves to be at Hoontoon State Park on the 28th. See you then. Rich and Judy

I found an interesting pamphlet on the USACE Kansas City site. It is a guide to recreation and visitor safety that was made for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial and the Lower Missouri River. It provides both boater as well as historical information for the Lower Missouri. Rich & Judy

Vince, We have been trying to plan a Missouri River trip for this year and perhaps you can provide answers to a few questions. Where is the best place to launch and have a safe place store the tow vehicle? Is it navigable from Ponca State Park on down river or just Sioux City? The fuel...

Ron & Connie, Thanks once again for a great gathering. The marina and food were an excellent choice. See you next year. Rich, Judy and Tilly

Ron and Connie, We were up in the Apostle Islands two years ago, and have NOAA chart, Bonnie Dahls "Superior Way" cruising guide and Garmin SD card for Lake Superior. You are welcome to use them, if you like. Let us know and we can mail them. We stayed the first week in Washburn and the second...

All the mods look great. You have been busy this winter. Those 70-gal. tanks will let you and Sharon explore the far reaches without the worry of getting fuel. We have added a few items to the Sandpiper: Engel refrigerator cooler Power cord from truck to boat batteries Converted old Coleman...

Tex, The tanks are looking good. Make sure you post up date photos so we can see how they look in the Cub. Be careful with the knee. Rich & Judy

We just signed up and this will be our first time to Lake Powell. The plan so far is to put in at Bullfrog Marina get a map of the lake and find Oak Canyon. Is there anything else we should know about the gathering? From looking at the previous years pictures we will most of the time be anchored...

Ramon and Laura, No, we have not done all of the South Shore before. Last year we were in the Apostle Islands and Black River Falls. We have the GPS charts for Lake Superior that were on our boat when we purchased it and decided to take advantage of it and explore further East. We also are...

C-Green Planning to cruise the South Shore of Lake Superior in July. Putting in at either Black River Falls Harbor or Ontonogan and head East. Not sure of final destination as yet. We will PM you when we get close to Houghton on the waterway. rich&judym Sandpiper

Radio experts, My SH GX1255s radio cuts out when the cabin temperature gets above approximately 90 deg. When it cools off the reception returns . Confirmed the problem with a heat gun on a cool day. Could this be caused by the potentiometers in the volume/squelch unit? Any other ideas? I...

Sandpiper and crew left Eufaula, Al. on April 7th and completed the cruise on April 19th. in Montgomery, Al. Weather was excellent all the way. Met a bunch of fine folks everywhere we stopped. A few pictures are posted in our photo album. Headed out next week on the Miss. River for some fishing...

El and Bill, Thanks for the words of encouragement. Byrdman and thataway, Thanks for the heads up on the fuel at Millers Ferry. I talked to them and they said the river had been high but was receding and the trash and the current on the river have gotten better. I will touch base with...

After a winter of planning the Sandpiper and crew are headed Alabama way to cruise the Horseshoe. We will begin in Eufaula, Al. and end up in Montgomery Al. approximately three weeks later. This is a cruise route we discovered on El and Bill's Halcyon Days web site and thought it would be a good...

Boris, Graduated from Purdue Univ. Calumet Ext. BSMET 1971. I forgot two other bikes that were not on my list: 1968 BSA 650 Lightening Rocket and a 197? Can Am 175. Never really got into road riding and the 175 was too small for a 220 pounder, so I traded it for a some frames, forks, wheels...

Boris- Journey On Rode moto-x, scrambles. hare and hound and sportsman TT. My senior project in college was designing and building a backbone frame for a 500 Triumph with oil in the frame. The engine was one that I pieced together after I thru a rod up in Michigan at Jack Pine and lunched the...

1966 H-D Sprint 250 high pipe 1966 Triumph 500 T100C, turned A- Enduro at Jack Pine Enduro 1968 1971 Husky 360 1972 Honda XL250 w/ Powerol kit 1972 MZ ISDT 250, later put in Husky frame, still in the barn 1976 Husky 250 WR 1979 Honda XL250 in Maico Frame 1973 Triumph 500 Trophy Trail...

Mike, We found two cruising guides for the Gulf Coast area, "Florida's Big Bend" by Rick Rhodes and "Northern Gulf Coast" by Claiborne Young. Both cruising guides are published by Pelican Publishing Co. I found used library copies on Amazon. Don't know for sure yet, but they are very detailed...

thataway and volsman Thanks for the info you both provided. After further study of charts, USACE information and a fuel capacity increase, we should be able to make this leg of the cruise ok. We added 15-gal. of fuel capacity and will run on one engine as much as possible. We also plan to...

We are planning a cruise similar to Halcyon's Horseshoe Loop and wonder if any Brats are familiar with the last place to get gas before heading up the Mobile River. Fly Creek on the eastern shore was what we are planning, before heading up the Blakeley River to Mobile-Tensaw Cutoff. Would it be...