Larry Q

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Larry Q – I received your email (about my Sunday South Sound Cruise) on my work computer today, but figured I would answer it when I got home. For some reason my home computer has not received your email, so I am not able to answer it by email (don’t know your email address). I am leaving at 3 AM in the morning for The Dalles Mountain Ranch to help with the calf branding and will not be back until Thursday or Friday. Didn’t want you to think I was ignoring you, so I will answer your question here. Besides we are all like a big family here and you can communicate with me through this site, unless it is personal or you want it to be a private message.

I know your asked how my cruise was Sunday and another question. I hope I can remember it before I post this, if not I will answer it when I get back.

It was a little over 85 miles, average speed – a shade over 14 MPH, about 8.3 MPG. Had just over the max legal load (about 1175 lbs on board)

The details. We left Olympia at 12:30 PM. The weather was over-cast in the mid sixties and fairly flat seas with very little chop. We made a short stop at Hope Island then through Hammersley Inlet and continued to the end of Oakland Bay. Started raining when we entered Hammersley Inlet. I was happy we had a C-Dory with a cabin and able to get out of the rain. Then back through Hammersley Inlet and north through Pickering Passage. We stopped just north of the Harstine Island bridge (still raining) and heated some tea, hot cider and had a snack. Then continued north to the end of Case Inlet. Got out of the rain just before Grapeview. We came back south along the east side of Case Inlet. Just south of Whitman Cove we beached the boat and walked along the beach looking for interesting rocks and drift wood. Dark clouds started forming to the south and we could hear thunder way off in the distance. We decided to head back to Olympia.

Just north of Johnson Point it started raining pretty hard and a go fast boat with twin inboards passed us doing 50+ MPH. About ten minutes later I noticed a boat a quarter mile off to the starboard that looked like the go fast boat, so I headed towards it. He had his engine cover up. As I got there he had the engines restarted and again headed for Olympia, going like a bat out of hell. As we passed Boston Harbor and entered Budd Inlet it was raining cats and dogs. Wipers on high would just barely keep the windshield clean enough to see.

Got back to the boat launch at 7:30 PM. It had quit raining. Had a great time and so did Terri. She is ready to go again, except this time with our fishing gear.
 
Dave- Thanks for the reply. Sounds like you two had a great day on the sound. I just looked at my new boat, it's still in the mold. Scott Mathews at the factory is going to be sending me pictures of each step as they build the boat. How many factorys would take the time to do that? Not many!
Saturday, Cathy and I took the 8 hour boat smart class in Lacy. It was good review for me and a great way for her to get the straight scoop without my point of view. The 70 question text at the end of the 8 hours was pretty simple, mostly common sense. Thats why several people were still there after we got our certificates and left.
As soon as the boat is finished we do need to take Robin and Jenifer out, you pick the place.
 
lloyds":1p0cp1zx said:
Dave: I sent you once recently as well, with questions about Lake Chelan. Guess I know now why you didn't reply.
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lloyds – sorry about not replying to your email. I really don’t remember getting it. Some one else told me they sent an email and I never answered it. What was your question about Lake Chelan?

I have too many email accounts (eight) and get too much email. At times, it is easy to lose or not recognize the mail as something important. I am working on a better system for sorting the spam and junk mail from the rest of the mail.

If anyone sends me email, put c-brats or c-dory in the subject box and it will help me quickly identify it as accepted email instead of junk mail. The best email account to use is on my C-Brats card in my photo album. Don’t want to post it here. It will just be another opportunity for a spammer to mine one of my email accounts.
 
Larry Q":34gir3le said:
As soon as the boat is finished we do need to take Robin and Jenifer out, you pick the place.
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Riffe Lake is not too far, has lots of coves, almost no houses on or near the shores of the lake and a nice launch near the dam. The lake is big enough (13+ miles long by just over a mile wide) to get away from other people except on the busiest holidays. In the summer, the water temperature is in the upper sixty’s near the surface. Good fishing and lots of places to camp.

When school is out, will you get a little more time off? I know your contract is not like the teachers where you only have to work half a year or less but if I remember right, you can take a few more days off during the summer? I try never to go anywhere on holiday weekends. Prefer weekdays when there are less people.

Next time you go visit your boat and Cathy doesn’t want to go, let me know and I will go with you. I need to talk to Jeff again about my planned hull extension.
Larry Q":34gir3le said:
The 70 question text at the end of the 8 hours was pretty simple, mostly common sense. Thats why several people were still there after we got our certificates and left.
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I have to remember this quote. I get a chuckle out of it every time I read it.
 
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