[Vhfcn-l] Fwd: TIME TO PUT OUR BOATS AWAY FOR WINTER UP NORTH.....NO MORE FUN ON THE WATER

[Arnold B Christensen]

I do not own a boat, but I am observant.  Here in Corpus 
Christie  the water does not freeze over.  In fact we generally do 
not get WINTER until the month of January.  We may have Cold Fronts 
pass thru but they burst on out to the Gulf of Mexico, slow down to a 
stop, then come back as a warm front.  Even in the month of January 
there are more days of T shirts and shorts and flip flops than long 
pants and heavy coats. When February rolls around I start thinking of 
watching for  a succession of low temps at night and deciding when I 
will put my tomato plants in the ground because 60-90 days later I 
will be picking my own ripe tomatoes! As a home grown Yanqui from 
Newport, Rhode Island, and having been in Tejas since January 1977 
when the Army sent me from Ft Devens,MA to Ft Hood, TX I find that to 
be a wonderful way to live.

I do  know about Mr Ek.  He loves his state of ME.  But it seems to 
me when he was learning to fly that he spent some time at Corpus 
Christi NAS but I don't know what part of the year he was here and if 
he had to purchase short and flip flops.

I think from observing that here people take their boats out of the 
water and home because they cannot afford to keep them at a mooring. 
They drive to the boat ramp, stick it in the water and when finished 
for the day they drag it out of the water and take it to the home 
driveway. Up in my hometown of Newport when the web cam that looked 
over the moorings in the bay it was interesting to see in the late 
spring the boats slowly filling the place up and when Labor Day hit 
to see them slowly leave and go someplace else. The some place else 
could be the back yard, or a boat yard or someplace waay down south in FL.
  The Bigfoot




At 08:29 AM 10/31/2019, Roger W. Ek via Vhfcn-l wrote:


> > On Oct 30, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Ken Hand via Vhfcn-l 
> <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Actually the water does a good job of slowing you down, as with 
> anything you have to anticipate how long it will take to slow down.
>
>Back in 1948, I used to run an old Johnson outboard with the 
>flywheel to top and opposed cylinders.t was a 15 horse. You shut it 
>off by pressing a steel grounding strap. The flywheel would kick 
>back and if you timed it just right, the engine would run backwards. 
>I was good at it - most of the time. One day I did it, hit the 
>throttle, and rammed the dock. I was prohibited from doing that any 
>more. No damage to the dock or boat.
>
>Yes, 1948.
>
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