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Reminds me of a guy I know. Nobody liked him. I tried to be relatively neutral. (tried)
But then he started picking on my friend, I tried to shut him down and he started on my Family. That was the last straw.
So I let him have it in the most subtlest way. The authorities took over and he is gone now.

Anybody we know? BTW: It was hard enough to get rid of a certain member...but any clues how to remove a "FreeLoader" from a couch?:lolgoku:
 

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Ok....so here's something different. A ship went down with thirty passengers. It happened during a hurricane. Now...as a guy who owns a 10' boat...what they are saying makes perfect sense....because this is a big boat...and pointing the bow into the waves...should have let it survive the hurricane.

It had to have lost power....ANY captain would have turned into the waves....unless he COULDN'T!

I was actually on a lake once when a squall caught me off guard....I swear...my little 12' Sears Gamefisher was pushed 100 yards sideways into shore in seconds! (I was just happy the olny thing that got wet was between my legs!)

I also have been on a lake where a 15' bass boat capsized while my little 10' jonboat made it home just fine.....just saying...I'm a good Captain!

Anyway...they found the remains about 3 miles down in the Ocean bottom...but what I'm saying is...there's no way that that Captain didn't lose power before this happened. I'm just a chump with a jonboat...but I understand boat Captains and...what they do.
 

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There's some pretty large waves on Lake Superior. You would not want to take a 17-20' boat on it. You'd for sure want something similar to what they use for deep sea fishing, just to keep the water out of the boats.

I was just up in Duluth 2 weeks ago in Canal Park. It was rainy, but the waves were pretty nasty.
 

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It was pretty nasty the day the bass boat capsized. Probably nearly. 4' swells...(maybe more)...trust me...that is scary stuff in a 10' boat that's like 14" tall on the sides...(if that)...;

When it gets bad like that....I always try to make sure my little 2 hp Johnson is full of fuel...and ask for a little help from upstairs before heading back to the marina.

I actually have a story about an incident that happened under somewhat similar circumstances. I was working 3rd shift and took this big A$$ fellow worker out for a morning fishing trip. We were fishing on the backside of an island (actually goat island...a whole nother story) ...

Anyway...I came around the corner of this island and saw what we were facing to get home.....so I turn around and get back in the calm...and tell this dipstick: "Listen...this is serious...I need you to stay low and not move around because we are going to have a serious ride back to the dock!"

Soooo...if it's not enough this dipstick doesn't listen...on the way back some idiot in a "bat boat" comes zooming by...now....I've got these 4'+ swells and all of a sudden another one coming at a 90° angle....so I get on top of the swell...and turn 90° to face the other swell....

Guess what? Fat butt falls over like a lump of potatoes...swamping my boat! I'm not kidding...it's totally swamped! The dipstick in the "batboat" comes by asking if he can "help" ....I told him he helped enough for one day!

Meanwhile...fat butt is grabbing the edge of my now totally filled jonboat...and I smack him in the head with a floatation cushion and tell him to keep his hands off my boat while I bail it out.

Now...after we make it back alive...what do you think he tells me? 'I fell asleep! " Are you kidding me? I told him we were heading for some serious crap! On top of everything else...he was wearing a pair of polarized fishing sunglasses I loaned him...and HE DIDN'T EVEN REPLACE!
 

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Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm. But He said to them, “Where is your faith?”


btw: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOUG. an hour ago you reached10,000 posts!:cheers2:
 

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Fishing up on Crane Lake, up in the boundary waters of Minnesota and Canada, we had hit some rocks without realizing it. It was myself, my dad and my cousin in a 1974 16.5'. the boat being made out of aluminum sheets held to the frame with rivets, had popped a few rivets out when we hit rocks, started taking on water. Now the holes where the rivets hold the boat together are 1/8" diameter, lost 4-6 rivets. Now I don't know who, but someone forgot to put in extra gas and oil (being a 70s era 70hp Evinrude its a 2 stroker). So probably about 20 minutes after we hit rocks and started taking on water, the water finally came through the new 3/4" marine grade plywood.

My dad go the boat started and I take a 5 gallon bucket and started bailing. Well when my dad got the boat up to plane, the water came in a bit quicker, so we had to limp to an island (unknown to us was on the Canadian side), and landed there to at least see the damage and to get more water out. Now that is when my cousin noticed we nearly out of fuel. We looked at the map and figured we were about 10 miles away from the docks we had launched from. We pushed the boat back into the water and used the trolling motor for a bit. We probably put about 400 yards when the battery gave out and died. So we flagged another Fisher down and got gas from him and he told us the island we were on was on the Canadian boarder, by this point we were on the US side so who cares? Well eventually we got back to shore and got the boat unto the trailer and ran into town for rivets.

Was a fun day and even though I got skunked on that lake, still enjoyed it.
 

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This is even better...had a buddy in the front of the Gamefisher and I noticed water splashing up every time it hit a wave....

The floorboard was cracked and leaking badly. I made it to shore...and found an almost empty can of contact adhesive...some beer cans..and I really couldn't tell you how I removed and replaced those bolts....

But...we we're back on the water in under 30 minutes and fished all day...even tje Poboy gets lucku sometimes!
 

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OK...kids...listen up. I'm...NO KIDDING...one bad mama jama...but I'm going to die soon...and I could have lived another 30 years...

That's right...30 years! (Think about it!) And most people aren't as tough as me.

But the human body just wasn't designed for smoking, alcohol, or drugs!

Please ...just don't start. Take it from someone who has been there....it's just not worth it! And it'll catch up to you sooner or later...
 

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I've seen what heavy drinking does to people's attitude in person, scary picture. Just lost an elder cousin back in November of 2014 to years of drug, alcohol and tobacco use. Liver cancer...he was sober for a good year, but when his mom died, he couldn't cope with it anymore.

I honestly avoid going to my dad's side of the family because a few drink heavily and one of them is a huge cactus (you get what I mean), and one winter while ice fishing in his dad's shack, I was really close to knocking him out and pushing him into an ice hole. The dude is like 35 years old, has a real bad attitude when he's wasted and has a kid. No one seems to want to step up to the plate and knock some sense into his bone head.

So I have plenty of reasons to stay clean. I'm actually one of maybe 75 kids in my high school graduation class of 490 to be completely clean of all drugs, alcohol, etc. Never touched any of it and don't plan on it ever. No idea how my body will react to it and I don't intend to find out. I'll use Jack Daniels steaks and burgers as a marinade, but outside of that...no intention of drinking.
 

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Good for you. Been there done it. Not for me. Cant Drink alcohol.
But I smoke like a chimney.
and should heed Poboy's advice!
 
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