[Public-List] Main Sail Track Fastening

[Gordon Laco]

Let's have one when we meet next.

Too bad you like Irish whiskey. I have a good friend in the Navy;  we  
buy each other a glass  whenever we meet.  He is a Mormon and doesn't  
drink...so I have to have both his drink and mine.

Gord




On 20-Oct-09, at 11:09 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:

>
> Well, I am enjoying an Irish wiskey at my desk right NOW after  
> reading that story!
>
>
> Mike Lehman
>
>
>> <((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><((((º>
>
>> From: mainstay at csolve.net
>> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
>> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:16:25 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Main Sail Track Fastening
>>
>> The 'Lighthouse' story is one of the best might-haves in our life.
>>
>> On a quiet evening years ago at the Toronto Int'l Boat Show I struck
>> up a conversation with the guy manning the Coast Guard booth beside
>> mine. It turned out that he was the Director of Aids to Nav for
>> Central Canada. He described his astonishment that they could still
>> recruit people to man lighthouses on remote parts of the west coast.
>> I went home that night and described this to my new wife; and she as
>> usual was a bad influence on me and said 'let's try!'.
>>
>> I applied and as expected got a letter right back telling me the
>> chances of being considered were slim. A few months later out of the
>> blue I got another letter giving me three days notice to get to
>> Victoria for an interview. Away I went got interviewed. Later, I
>> was told I was 'hired' and that I should stand by for my posting. I
>> called and asked if they wanted to interview Caroline... the deal was
>> that I would command a salary as Lightkeeper and she would earn a
>> smaller one as Assistant. The CCG man told me with a deep voice
>> "Gordon, we of the Canadian Lightkeeping service have been appointing
>> Keepers for over 100 years. We have come to trust our choice of men;
>> we trust their choice in assistants'. I said 'Thanks'.
>>
>> My Dad was not very happy about my career choice. He asked me what I
>> thought I was going to do out there. My half joking comment about
>> having a lot of time to chase Caroline around the island did not
>> mitigate his feeling that I was side tracking. Seriously, we
>> reckoned we'd do it for a couple of years saving money and have some
>> adventure at the same time. The pay was not huge but there were
>> isolation benefits that made the pay nearly tax free. We had no
>> obligations then so we would have been able to bank most of every
>> month's joint pay.
>>
>> The months passed, every time I spoke with the CCG office there was
>> some reason or another why our posting might come next month. More
>> months passed. Eventually we gave up, after two years of 'maybe next
>> month' we bought our house and started our first child. We moved in
>> the house in January of '89. In March, the firm posting came. Oh
>> the agony...should we go or not? After a week of discussion and
>> investigating various plans we decided that with the baby coming we
>> could not do it. I wrote a long letter to the Coast Guard explaining
>> and they were good enough to respond saying they understood and
>> offered to keep us on the list. Our names came up again but the
>> window of opportunity for us to hide on a rocky point for a couple of
>> years had passed.
>>
>> That's the light house story - now where is the Irish whiskey?
>>
>> Gord 		 	   		
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