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19-08-2012, 17:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Upper right-hand corner of Iowa
Boat: Newport 30 MK III
Posts: 58
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Well, THAT Took a While !
We bought Paradise Cafe, a Newport 30 MKIII in 2006. Hurricane Wilma washed her into the mangroves near Key West and while being tossed around the fuel tank burst. Insurance paid and the boat was put up for sale by a broker. I built a trailer, drove to Key West, loaded up and dragged her home to the upper right-hand corner of Iowa. I cleaned and repaired and converted and refitted and invented and improved as fast as I could. Given that in the intervening years I got to have cancer surgery and recovery one year, had to have a shoulder replaced another year, had to build a garage on the house one year, one year the Holdam family had to go to the Grand Canyon, my summers have not exactly been good for getting the sailboat back in the water. But now she's in the lake at Lake City, Minnesota. This weekend my wife and I got to spend the first weekend aboard. Paradise Cafe sails very nicely, thank you very much. And we get to keep her in the water until late October. Our weekends will be different now.
Guy
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19-08-2012, 17:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City, MO
Boat: In the hunt again, unknown
Posts: 1,332
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Awesome, congrats! 
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19-08-2012, 18:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Boat: Truant Triad 37 Cutter-Alaska, Leopard 40 Cat, Bahamas
Posts: 360
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Way to get it done! Is that lake Pepin?
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19-08-2012, 18:02
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Wow - Great perseverance. Well done!
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19-08-2012, 18:03
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Upper right-hand corner of Iowa
Boat: Newport 30 MK III
Posts: 58
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
It is Lake Pepin. We got lucky and have a slip at the Lake City Marina for the rest of the season.
Guy
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19-08-2012, 18:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Boat: Truant Triad 37 Cutter-Alaska, Leopard 40 Cat, Bahamas
Posts: 360
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Beautiful area. Hope you get to enjoy it a lot.
cheers-scott
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19-08-2012, 18:08
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Boat: Truant Triad 37 Cutter-Alaska, Leopard 40 Cat, Bahamas
Posts: 360
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Btw, ive been thru key west Iowa many times! That's in the upper right area too. I prefer the one in Florida though...
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19-08-2012, 18:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Upper right-hand corner of Iowa
Boat: Newport 30 MK III
Posts: 58
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Quote:
Originally Posted by seahag
Btw, ive been thru key west Iowa many times! That's in the upper right area too. I prefer the one in Florida though... |
So YOU'RE the person that has been through Key West, IA more than once! Actually, I'm about a hundred miles from Key West, IA. I'm only about 40 miles south of the Minnesota border and about the same from Wisconsin.
Guy
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19-08-2012, 18:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bellingham
Boat: Outbound 44
Posts: 8,307
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
So show us a pic
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Paul
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19-08-2012, 18:39
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Upper right-hand corner of Iowa
Boat: Newport 30 MK III
Posts: 58
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul L
So show us a pic
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I'll be building a Photobucket album with the pictures of the splash. I'll put up the link when I get it ready.
Guy
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19-08-2012, 20:31
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,193
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Aloha and congratulations!
Well done.
kind regards,
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John
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19-08-2012, 21:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in California working on the farm
Boat: Westsail 28 and 14ft.Whitehall pulling skiff.
Posts: 8,241
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Congrats...You have accomplished what most men dream of.
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow - what a ride!"
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19-08-2012, 23:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Los Angeles
Boat: Pearson 281
Posts: 682
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Well, aren't I just a big cry-baby!!! 
Well done! Your story inspires. Looking forward to the pictures.
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19-08-2012, 23:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: From Cape Town now New Caledonia
Boat: Lagoon 440
Posts: 957
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
I like your attitude ...
Perhaps I can learn to appreciate what I have more from good people like you ...
Thanks for sharing that ...
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20-08-2012, 01:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: NZ
Boat: S34 Bob Stewart - 1959 Patiki class. Re--built by me & good mate.
Posts: 968
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Re: Well, THAT took a while!
Mate....sounds like you just climbed Everest! Well done! Enoy it all the more for the journey. Sailing is the cake, your improvements and inventing are the icing!
Salute!
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