Last Hurrah?/ broken strings/ Chicago Sail In

[Michael Jorgensen]

Hey the North Channel!! Did that last year,  great place. Forgot Tom McNeil,
what was it, a 32' wooden cutter he had?
Sorry folks, and list police,
mj.

Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:

> At 07:36 01/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Who did you direct this message to? I'll answer anyway! Comments
> >interspersed below:
> >
> > > What body of water are you on?
> >
> >Tampa Bay/Gulf of Mexico, about 250 miles N of Key West - for the last 11
> >years.
> >
> > >  I'm on Lake Michigan out of
> > > Chicago.
> >
> >Prior to that, Lake St. Clair outside of Detroit. Used to sail up through
> >the North Channel of Lake Huron most summers. I miss it.
>
> Lake, schmake, you haven't lived until you've sailed a 10' Cape Dory (i.e.
> glorified rowboat) in the Delaware River, just down from
> Philadelphia.  Dodging freighters and tankers in an open boat with low
> freeboard and bucket bailing is nothing but fun!!  One hand on the tiller
> and the other on the sheet with occasional visits to a sandbar to jump out
> and bail. (usually by Little Tinicum Island [obligatory piano content -
> Lester, former home of that famous piano mfgr, is in Tinicum Township])
>
> Oh, and having to lower sail _and_ mast and ROW under a railroad drawbridge
> back to the ramp... grrrr...
>
> Conrad
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu
>
> Anything in parentheses can(not) be ignored.