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    Woo Hoo! What a Ride!

    Good day to all - it is with sadness and great joy that I report that SAM is Home with his Lord. He left us at 6:24 CDT this morning, after a long fight. It feels as though half of me has been torn from my side - he was ever the great encourager and optimist - a fine friend and partner...
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    And a few more prayers

    As most all here know, I have tried to shore up those with cancer because I know what it is like and I also know of God's miraculous deliverance from it. I had started to bleed some from my recently re-inflated left lung so I went to see my pulmonologist. He put me back in the hospital...
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    Back in the cockpit

    I know it has been a while since I posted last and none of you have been able to meet me on the lakes here in the Nations for the last four months. I did the chemotherapy thing to reduce the size of a tumor in my chest that had crushed the left lung and was crushing the right lung and heart...
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    Any of you loose a lung?

    It seems the reason that I have been shorter of breath this spring is that I have developed a three liter size tumor on my left lung and it has physically collapsed the lung. No great worries at this time as it is NOT malignant and the easy cure is to cut this thing out. If all goes well I...
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    Mississippi River trip delayed

    It seems as though I will not be able to make the cruise from Tulsa down to Jay Merrill's end of he country this year. The rising river right now, the increased barge traffic when the water first goes down, the closing of one of the locks in September, and available time off have conspired to...
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    Darwin Award Tryouts

    I just saw an item on the local news channel a few minutes ago. It seems three men thought it a good idea to go wakeboarding on a local shallow lake with the winds blowing from 35 to 45MPH. The waves were in the three foot region and they thought it would make for good jumping. They allowed...
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    Boating Knives

    This somewhat came up on another thread. What type of boating knife do you carry and why. If you don't carry one, why not?
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    Hot weather life vests

    Here in the sunny South my mate and I's tolerance for the 90 to 100 degree weather is diminishing. We are looking for type two vests that allow some air to cool our aged bodies. We can't seem to find any in the catalogs that aren't the bulbous bib style or buckled pieces of foam that wrap...
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    Dumb thief

    Yesterday a manager at the OSU student union noticed that a 42 inch flat screen TV was missing from a conference room. He is not one that gets excited easily so he checked to see if it had bee moved to another room without authorization. While he was checking, a parking cop called him and...
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    Favorite reversing gear

    For all of you true inboard owners: What is your favorite reversing gear and why? I am looking for one in the 250 to 300 foot pound range and am just starting the research. Any opinions would help.
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    Bearing size compared to axel capacity

    I have noticed several questions about the load capacity of unknown axles. This has been gleaned from a number of catalogs. bearing size bearing numbers axle capacity seal number inner outer Inner outer 1" 1" L44643 L44643...
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    Inboard/cruiser forum

    OK fellas, I have been hanging out here for a few months. Almost all of the post are outboard engine information with a small spatering of I/O and even a smaller selection of sailing. Is there a forum here or anywhere that those of us who are slow in going,but have seven league boots? Any...
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    Displacment Outboard

    OK outboard guys! Here is the stumper. I have read here that outboard engines should not be ran at low to medium R.P.M.s as they coke badly, pull ring lands and otherwise have bad juju unless they are ran near w.o.t. High RPMs with high prop slip is excessively bad on economy and leads to...
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