[Public-List] Main Sail Track Fastening

[dan walker]

i on the other hand---even though of irish descent prefer good charcoal mellowed tennessee whiskey. uncle jack we called him, and i am having one very soon
dan walker

ps this thread is almost like re reading the boat who would not float

--- On Tue, 10/20/09, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Main Sail Track Fastening
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 11:21 AM
> 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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