[Public-List] FW: Spring is happening...

[edward schroeder via Public-List]

Gordo;
Large snakes on the Eat Coast?
A funny story...thank God that I never lost sumpin' on the boat all Winter and spent hours lookin' for same all Winter!

Ed Schroeder
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On Mon, 4/10/17, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

 Subject: [Public-List] FW: Spring is happening...
 To: "George Dinwiddie via Public-List" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
 Date: Monday, April 10, 2017, 1:11 PM
 
 Hello George – can you tell me if this went
 to the list?
 
  
 
 Hope you’re well and looking forward
 to spring.
 
  
 
 Gord
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
 Date: Monday, April 10, 2017 at 1:47
 PM
 To: Public-List <public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org>
 Subject: Spring is happening...
 
  
 
 Good day friends,
 
  
 
 The list has been fairly quiet
 lately…  perhaps it’s time for a story.
 
  
 
 The ice is long gone from the harbour,
 SURPRISE has had her tarp off for some time now (I always
 take it off in March, partly to allow the rain to give her
 decks a wash, and partly to provoke the last snow storm of
 the winter).
 
  
 
 I strolled down to our winter marina
 yesterday, telling my wife I was going to start spring
 fitting out work on the boat… keeping to myself the real
 reason, which was to resolve a mystery that’s been on my
 mind for the past few weeks.  That is where are
 SURPRISE’s bronze cowl vents?   I distinctly remember
 thinking on the day I took the tarp off that I should bring
 the cowls home to polish them.  I didn’t think about
 them again for a bit but when I went to look for them in my
 office and at home, I couldn’t find them.   Casual
 searches became determined ransacking… no vents.
 
  
 
 Yesterday I mounted the ladder and as
 soon as my eyes were high enough to look over the stern,
 took a squint forward to see if I’d left them in the
 cockpit.   No, nothing there.   Sighing, I climbed
 up into the boat and accidentally glanced forward… there
 they were, both of them, still in place.
 
  
 
 So now I wonder which is worse: to have
 taken them home and lost them, or to have forgotten I had
 not taken them home, and spent two weeks looking for
 them…  let me know what you think.
 
  
 
 Happier now, I put the ladder away and
 strolled back to my car.  I noticed a fair pandemonium
 going on over at the travel lift.  Five gas and
 electric powered salvage pumps and every self appointed as
 well as professional nautical handy man was hard at work on
 a ramshackle house boat beside the launching bay.  
 Joining the crowd of onlookers, I learned that the houseboat
 had been launched the day before, and had sunk.   A
 house boat sunk?  Good news, you might say, but it gets
 much better.
 
  
 
 The house boat was/is the home of a
 local ‘artiste of many trades’.   The marina was
 doing him a favour letting him winter in it on the
 property.  The house boat’s twin engines are long
 gone, but thinking swiftly, the artiste realized that once
 his home was in the water she might be tail light due to the
 loss of weight… so he piled concrete blocks in to make up
 what he figured matched the missing engines.  
 
  
 
 But…  he put a lot more weight
 in than he should have, and forgot that the advice he
 received before launching with regard to not having to worry
 about the empty exhaust pipe transom penetrations being
 given assuming the stern was high and light…. So the boat
 sank.
 
  
 
 Naturally, he wasn’t around when a
 passerby noticed the thing was sinking (he’d been there at
 splash, and declared all well before heading out of
 town).   So now a big houseboat full of junk is
 sinking.  Well not full of just junk… the first of
 the rescuers in the boarding party were somewhat alarmed to
 discover that there was someone at home in the houseboat
 after all.    Two very large pythons.   Huge
 snakes, one thicker around than a man’s thigh, and not
 very happy about their home sinking …
 
  
 
 Man, I couldn’t make this up…
 
  
 
 Gord #426 Surprise
 
  
 
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