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05-11-2016, 16:43
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Boat: Bayliner 3288
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Hello all!
I am about a year out from retiring from the fire department and Plan B is to buy a motor boat and live aboard in the Pacific NW for a few years. (Plan A is to meet the woman of my dreams and make up a new plan together. But that hasn't happened 53 years so I'm prepping for plan B!) I look forward to learning as much as possible from all of you in the next year. My boating experience so far has been whitewater rafting and kayaking (and 4 years on an aircraft carrier). I'm really excited to find this forum!
Happy cruising!
Howard
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05-11-2016, 17:19
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: On Board, just above the water
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Re: Hello all!
Plan "B" is always the best plan. Besides, if you find "The Woman Of Your Dreams" wouldn't you like it better if you were on a boat? Then the demand "Your boat or me!" doesn't come up. The boat was here first.
I went to the boat 5 years ago and found my compliant someone after I had the boat, she knows the answer to the question. There are many more fish in the sea. (and "NO" she doesn't know about this forum.)
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05-11-2016, 18:33
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Channel Islands, CA
Boat: 1962 Columbia 29 MK 1 #37
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Re: Hello all!
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Originally Posted by adventuren1
I am about a year out from retiring from the fire department and Plan B is to buy a motor boat and live aboard in the Pacific NW for a few years. (Plan A is to meet the woman of my dreams and make up a new plan together. But that hasn't happened 53 years so I'm prepping for plan B!) I look forward to learning as much as possible from all of you in the next year. My boating experience so far has been whitewater rafting and kayaking (and 4 years on an aircraft carrier). I'm really excited to find this forum!
Happy cruising!
Howard |
Welcome here Howard.. and I am more interested in your avatar! Tell me about that.. it's kind of small but it looks like a dory in the Grand Canyon... or "drift boat" in some canyon.... something I know a little about! My last name is Litton. Always good to see a dory wherever it is!
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Pythagoras
1962 Columbia 29 MKI #37
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05-11-2016, 20:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Boat: Bayliner 3288
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Re: Hello all!
Don, that is my Willie 16' drift boat on the Salmon river in Idaho. Steelhead fishing in the Fall has been a passion for years.
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05-11-2016, 20:28
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Port Townsend, WA
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Re: Hello all!
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Originally Posted by Don1500
Plan "B" is always the best plan. Besides, if you find "The Woman Of Your Dreams" wouldn't you like it better if you were on a boat? Then the demand "Your boat or me!" doesn't come up. The boat was here first.
I went to the boat 5 years ago and found my compliant someone after I had the boat, she knows the answer to the question. There are many more fish in the sea. (and "NO" she doesn't know about this forum.) |
Combining the 2 plans would be the best option!
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05-11-2016, 22:41
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Channel Islands, CA
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Re: Hello all!
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Originally Posted by adventuren1
Don, that is my Willie 16' drift boat on the Salmon river in Idaho. Steelhead fishing in the Fall has been a passion for years. |
Ah! hard to see, wish I could see it blown up, is that shot just below the town of Salmon there, just upstream of North Fork? I ran the Salmon for many years, Middle Fork and Main Salmon from Corn Creek down. Sure miss it! How is the fishing these days? At one time I really thought of making a sailboat out of a dory (drift boat!) At any rate I know the dream you have of chugging around Puget Sound and the San Juans and farther! Plenty of folks here in that part of the world. Good luck!
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Pythagoras
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05-11-2016, 23:54
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Boat: Truant Triad 37 Cutter-Alaska, Leopard 40 Cat, Bahamas
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Re: Hello all!
Greetings Howard to you from Alaska. The cruising here is spectacular if you decide to venture north.
Best,
Scott
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06-11-2016, 02:29
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
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Re: Hello all!
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Howard.
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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11-11-2016, 09:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Boat: Bayliner 3288
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Re: Hello all!
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Originally Posted by Don C L
Ah! hard to see, wish I could see it blown up, is that shot just below the town of Salmon there, just upstream of North Fork? I ran the Salmon for many years, Middle Fork and Main Salmon from Corn Creek down. Sure miss it! How is the fishing these days? At one time I really thought of making a sailboat out of a dory (drift boat!) At any rate I know the dream you have of chugging around Puget Sound and the San Juans and farther! Plenty of folks here in that part of the world. Good luck! |
That pic is just upstream from Salmon, Id. I don't fish there much. Mostly spend my time in Riggins. Lots of big fish this year 
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