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Ms PatriYacht said:
Sounds like you all had fun. Did you get quite a few boats. Elizabeth we have a pretty good outdrive guy we use for Bravos. Mr Gadgets on OSO, if your friend needs his contact info we have it. He has saved us big money and is honest.

JJ i hope you don't peel everwhere, I hope you are feeling a bit better today. Ian got pretty burt standing on the beach at the hot hole all day. His burn is really odd, he put on a lot of #30, and I put a lot on his back, but he missed several spots. Since the man never goes barefoot or wears sandals, and is never without white socks, the tops of his feet are whiter than my azz. Because of the shells and other sharp objects on the beach he gave in and wore his beach sandals for the first time. Well he wound up with the WORST burns on the top parts of his feet that the sandals did not cover, he also has two big red patches his left and right side, and more red patches on the part of his legs behind his knees. He really looks VERY spotty. I did not get burnt, I was careful and spent a lot of time under the tent.

I must say it was a fabulous weekend, I kept saying, we are really too old to party this hard. Sorry to bore you but here's a quick rundown.

Friday night put in at Erie Metro Park, docked at Rocky & Colleen Smiths house, jumped in their 66 Classic Chevy and participated in the Downriver Cruise and had dinner.
Then went to the Ford Yacht Club and closed that bar down. Had an early morning walk on Grosse Isle, then we hit the lake, the water was fabulous and we got to Monroe by 10AM. The hot hole's tricky to get to, so we followed another LEOPA boat in, we were able to beach the boat, good thing we brought our 6' ladder. The club had a cookout and Dave Powell set up his DJ equipment. We decided not to spend the night and followed a LEOPA boat to the Ottawa River, docked at the Riverview Boat Club, had a nice dinner at the River Cafe, then Rob showed up and bought each of us a drink, thanks Rob. Headed back to the RVBC watched the fireworks from the back of our boat while drinking a bottle of wine, then headed to the clubhouse for dancing to the live band and the BEST brandy Alexanders (tall and only 4 bucks/better than the Pump's!). Then the next morning enjoyed the $6.00 all you can eat Breakfast Buffet at the Ottawa River Boat Club. Followed Chris's Formula until we were in a safe area and had a VERY choppy ride back to Erie Metro park. We pulled in our driveway at 2PM very exhausted but grinning ear to ear because we had so much fun. I am blown away and amazed by all those small boat club in that area. LEOPA joined the association so we have reciprocal privileges, the drinks and food are so reasonable and most offer free dockage for the night, it really makes the weekend much more affordable. At Ford, I drank really large glasses of Kendal Jackson Cabernet for $4.00, at the RiverCafe they wanted $9.00 a glass for a lot less, the Brandy Alexanders at the club were $4.00 and Ian's vodka and Tonic were $1.80. I just love these clubs.
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It was funny.... you called and Rob called and you were both in my hood, but I was at the Islands so I told him to call you. The place that you had breakfast is our yacht club. I used to have to negotiate that path to safety every ride. :D You get a good gps and you learn it. In the fall it gets really tricky. Jann grew up at that club. Her dad was an offcer and a former yard man. They were live aboards in the summer.
 
Donna, it's called Point Place style..if there is a way to do it on the cheap with jackassery involved. we have figured it out :D Think you might have had breakfast at ottawa river yacht club, Fundy and JJ are members there, and my homeless yacht club lives upstairs...

Let Ian know I feel his pain, 4th of july around 1988 went to a party on the strand (coronado/san diego) pretty religous about unscreen, but started playing vollyball so I to my shoes and socks off.. forgot to sunscreen the feet.. woke up the next morning, got out of bed and fell on my face, the tops of my feet were reddish purple, blistered and the size of footballs..crawled to the phone, called in sick at work and couldn't walk for 3 days....
 
I have gotten so drunk at ORYC. :D I had a dock there for three years. Dock it, put the lines on... cover it.... cross the street and commence cheap drunkeness.
 
yes that was the club we had breakfast at, really nice people I was trying to describe Jann to some of the people but without her maiden name it was difficult. I was surprised how nice it was, from the way JJ talks I though it was a little shack. Now if I can just talk some people into lending us some snowmobiles, their winter poker run sounds like a lot of fun.

Now thought turn to the summer poker run on the weekend of the 18th. We will have seats available if anyone is interested. It starts at the Detroit Beach Club. Barb are you guys coming to that.

Well no sure how much I will be posting over the next 5 or 6 days, my parents, my sister and her husband and their 12 year old daughter will be arriving from NY Tuesday night and staying here until next Monday morning. Does anyone know
till
 
Ms PatriYacht said:
yes that was the club we had breakfast at, really nice people I was trying to describe Jann to some of the people but without her maiden name it was difficult. I was surprised how nice it was, from the way JJ talks I though it was a little shack. Now if I can just talk some people into lending us some snowmobiles, their winter poker run sounds like a lot of fun.

Now thought turn to the summer poker run on the weekend of the 18th. We will have seats available if anyone is interested. It starts at the Detroit Beach Club. Barb are you guys coming to that.

Well no sure how much I will be posting over the next 5 or 6 days, my parents, my sister and her husband and their 12 year old daughter will be arriving from NY Tuesday night and staying here until next Monday morning. Does anyone know
till
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I don't know till.
 
My burn isn't so painful till I put on the undergarments....Overcast and cool. Perfect for me... Hope you have a good day. Gotta get dressed for work. 3 day work week, yay!!!
Next week is my vacation week, and I haven't saved enough...booo.



Please make the hair grow, God, I need mo money...:willy_nilly:
 
family is making good time, they are well past Youngstown:driving: Do any of you Ohio folk know if there is any bad construction between Youngstown and Toledo. My mom keeps talking about this time they got off the turnpike trying to get to I75 and were re-routed and it took forever. Perhaps it was when they were building the new bridge. I think all that is completed now, so is it smooth sailing from 80 to I75 or is there something I should warn them about.

Ian really cleaned up the garage, it's looking sooooooooooo much better, nothing like a visit from the in-laws to get him moving:biggrinjester:
 
Ms PatriYacht said:
family is making good time, they are well past Youngstown:driving: Do any of you Ohio folk know if there is any bad construction between Youngstown and Toledo. My mom keeps talking about this time they got off the turnpike trying to get to I75 and were re-routed and it took forever. Perhaps it was when they were building the new bridge. I think all that is completed now, so is it smooth sailing from 80 to I75 or is there something I should warn them about.

Ian really cleaned up the garage, it's looking sooooooooooo much better, nothing like a visit from the in-laws to get him moving:biggrinjester:
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They may have been thinking of the I-280 bridge construction a few years ago. I-280 is interchange east of I-75. They should have no problem from 80/90 to I-75. I drove past that interchange Saturday coming back from Sandusky. It appeared normal.
They could exit 80/90 and do I-280N to I-75N also. Might shave a few miles.
 
Thanks guys I will let them know.

OK tell me your opinion. I just was on OSO, hardly go there anymore. Anyway there was a thread about a 35 year old member that died, he was from CA and his board name was Insurance God. I did not know him, long story short he was on a small Zodiac at 1 in the morning with two buddies, it was said they were at bars and there were a lot of empty beer cans in the boat. They crashed, two are dead and one in the hospital, the Insurance guy may have been the driver but it's not 100% clear if he was. He was 35, he leaves a pregnant wife and a child and the other guy has a newborn. The thread was started as a notification on the passing of a good guy. Well this situation has made me so angry I can't stop thinking about it. So of course I had to make not one post but three to how I feel about what some say "is a stupid mistake" and "at least they did not hurt any innocent people" I say the hell they didn't what about their innocent wives and family left with this tragedy to deal with. Anyway hopefully I don't have to take to much grief for my feelings, you never know someone might read how people think and modify there behavior when out with the boys. The news article is in the OSO thread which is in their GD, I can't get in their bilge anymore. I really wish I did not read that thread, it put me in very bad mood.
 
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