EARLY SEASON ON-THE-WATER ADVENTURE - LAKE ST. CLAIR

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therevdr

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It isn't a "Grand Adventure"....but it became adventuresome!!
The U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY did a radio net in our division on Saturday (08APR07) that wanted a boat out on the lake.....my boat...on Lake St. Clair...on a day when the temperature never got above 25 degrees (F).
It was great to be out there..in snow squalls and 10-20 MPH wind; I must have come back with 300 pounds of ice on the bow deck and cabin (maybe that is how it is for C-Dorys up in the Northern Pacific!!??). We had to have the middle front window open coming back in (it was impossible to keep the ice off the front windows) and had less than 1/4 visibility in some of the snow squalls (it was an "instrument" landing return).
But not many other USCGAUX boats would have been able to do it (and there are only a few boat owners crazy enough to agree to it)...but, again, great to be back out on soft water, again!!
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DRIFTWOOD DREI
 
Sure glad you are a rev., doctor -- the rest of us probably wouldn't have made it back.

Whew -- we've heard of early season boating, but ice all over the bow and center window open so you could see in those conditions ... yep, that's quite a tale --
 
El and Bill":mvufhfnw said:
Sure glad you are a rev., doctor -- the rest of us probably wouldn't have made it back.
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Must remember that he had no problem with this voyage as I'm fairly certain that his being a "rev", he most likely thinks about the 1943 book written by Robert L. Scott Jr..........."God Is My Co-Pilot". :wink
 
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