...however, I admire people who have genuine nautical skill, and are sufficiently committed to boating (or to yachting, as the case may be) to be willing to undertake the ownership of their own boats. Mrs. Paco and I went for lunch at the restaurant at the local marina yesterday - a splendid, sunny day - and saw an array of nice looking craft.
This is the sign at the intersection of the intracoastal waterway and the channel that runs into the marina area.
Here's what I take to be the flagship of the Brunswick County Navy (not sure if you can see the word "Sheriff" on the side of the wheelhouse)...
Here are several of the smaller craft.
I went down to St. James Marina...
ReplyDelete... and saw my baybeeeee there!
...stretched out on a long white table,
ReplyDeletewith an Arbogast popper in her hair...
Well it's good that you have photos of the boating accident were you lost your gun collection.
ReplyDeleteOh, right! Right, Tom. That's how it happened, yessir, all those beautiful guns, straight to the bottom of the sea. Oh, well. I've still got my pocket knife.
ReplyDeleteA salvage operation would give credence to the accident story.
DeleteMaybe Mrs. Paco and I could do the trip in a canoe.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. Almost 700 miles by canoe.
I would have to have a darn good reason to DRIVE 700 miles, these days. The best I could do would be to put a canoe in the bed of my pickup, and sit in it while a friend drives me down the coast. "I went from Southport to Miami in a canoe!" :-)
Canoes have outboard motors - right?
ReplyDeleteYeah, they're called 'trolling motors'. They're electric, so you could add a canopy made of solar panels and you'd be all set.
ReplyDeleteThe electric canoe. Well, it's really a hybrid, right.
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