Boat Forum / Boats / October 2007

Let's see how many we can identify.  Remember we are not only talking about
US Presidents but all World Leaders.
I'll start with an easy one........George W. Bush.

Heading back up to the GB.   Underway tomorrow morning at daybreak for the
trip back to Cape Cod.   Timed this one a little better, so I'll hit the
Canal at slack time which should knock about an hour or so off the trip.
6-1/2  hours instead of 7-1/2.

...for a total of three.
The first is on the cop boat that never leaves its slip.
Second was on a ProLine 21, looked like a repower. Floating in the
launch ramp area, with the operator trying again and again to get the

I've finally had it with my old radar.
It still works, after taking what seems like about five minutes for
the tube to warm up.
The display is fine, as long as it isn't daytime. During the daytime,

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This is old news:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-05-coast-guard_x.htm
But, I was driving home from the post office earlier and turned on Hush
Bimbo's radio show, to see what message he was giving his audience of loyal

After a day of fishing today we said goodbye to boating for 2007 (unless our
friends invite us out on theirs, but they will be out in the next few
weeks).  It will be pulled out this week and winterized.
Our runabout is used for getting to/from our swimming hole or to/from our

If your ancestors came through Ellis Island you haven't looked up their
arrival documents, ship, etc, you may find this site interesting. I found
the documentation of my grandparents' arrival from Holland in 1914, and
also documentation of another trip the family took in 1924.

From today's New York Times:
MONACO — Massimo Vilardi, an executive with Eurocopter, came to this
year’s Monaco yacht show to sell helicopters.
Yacht sales have increased 10 to 15 percent a year worldwide in the

Say it ain't so!!  I thought they were all about - um...
Whatever.
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/09/moveonorgs-thin.html
"Beyond that, it's amazing that MoveOn would try to squelch political

IMHO, the old guy ought to get a civil service medal and a champaign
cruise..
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/333727_stab30.html?source=rss

Well, after watching a friend of mine baptize his $400.00 digital
camera in the Wabash river earlier this year, I thought, thats NOT
going to happen to me.
SO! I splurged, man! did I splurge. I gave a whole $20.00 for one of

Skeptic leaves climate office
September 27, 2007
CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) — Virginia's state climatologist, whose doubts
about global warming and utility-industry funding made him a lightning