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Amarillo, what a god forsaken place that was. Colder than everybodies ex wives hearts.
Forbes AFB in Kansas wasn't much better. Neither was Pease in NH.
Went to a one week seminar in Buffalo,,that lasted almost two weeks. Snowed the first night there, and all the next day, all the next night , etc. You know it's a heavy snow fall when a front end loader gets stuck. Thankfully where we stayed had a resturant, a fully stocked bar and we had expense accounts..:D

As I got older my tolerance for the cold, never high to begin with, got even less but my wife hates high heat and humidity along with the various creatures that thrive in it. So here i is....:eek:
 
BobbyFord said:
We had a boat in C-Basin, Deauville marina, slip C-123, we lived on board in the summer. Joey Bishop's boat was across the dock from ours. My dad worked on John Wayne and Frank Sinatra's boats, as well as pretty much everyone else's in Del Rey.
Went fishing every sunday until I started racing motorcycles. Pops had a bidness called Marine Engineering, off of Lincoln, for several years then he went back to working on automobiles.
Like I said, live where you can afford. We can drive to the snow in two hours but we don't want to drive our old cars anywhere near any salt. I have family in many different states, sure it's nice to see the seasons but there is always the comfort factor. My dad was born in Detroit then moved to north Chicago, came here in '55, never went back.
From what my cousin says, anyone that claims to enjoy shoveling snow is talking out their frozen ass.
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I enjoyed living in the marina, but I seemed to have a cold all winter long from the cold salty air, so after 6 years I figured it was time for a change. I don't remember which marina, but wasn't John Waynes boat out on the end tie for a while in Del Rey? Your cousin is probably right, I don't know anyone that really likes to shovel snow. But that would not be a deal breaker for me. When I was a kid I use to keep all the driveways on our road cleaned off with my dads ford tractor and grader blade.
 
Nitro Dude said:
I enjoyed living in the Marina, but I seemed to have a cold all winter long from the cold salty air, so after 6 years I figured it was time for a change. I don't remember which marina, but wasn't John Waynes boat out on the end tie for a while in Del Rey? Your cousin is probably right, I don't know anyone that really likes to shovel snow. But that would not be a deal breaker for me. When I was a kid I use to keep all the driveways on our road cleaned off with my dads ford tractor and grader blade.
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Yes, Wayne's boat was on an end slip on the same side of the harbor as the fuel dock and Fisherman's wharf.
Do you remember the Perseus, that was tied near the fuel dock? Scary black sailboat built in Denmark in 1879. Some knucklehead sunk it in a storm. 103' , beam 19'6". I climbed on board alone when I was about 10 years old, on a foggy morning while my dad was fueling up and getting bait. Swore to God I saw pirate ghosts, scared the crap out of me :D
Remember Donkin's?
 
BobbyFord said:
Yes, Wayne's boat was on an end slip on the same side of the harbor as the fuel dock and Fisherman's wharf.
Do you remember the Perseus, that was tied near the fuel dock? Scary black sailboat built in Denmark in 1879. Some knucklehead sunk it in a storm. 103' , beam 19'6". I climbed on board alone when I was about 10 years old, on a foggy morning while my dad was fueling up and getting bait. Swore to God I saw pirate ghosts, scared the crap out of me :D
Remember Donkin's?
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Yes, I remember that black sail boat and it looked haunted. Wasn't the tall ship HMS Bounty that sank off the eastcoast during Sandy, docked over at the fuel docks for about a week back around 1997 or 1998?
 
Nitro Dude said:
Yes, I remember that black sail boat and it looked haunted. Wasn't the tall ship HMS Bounty that sank off the eastcoast during Sandy, docked over at the fuel docks for about a week back around 1997 or 1998?
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That boat was haunted. It was used to smuggle refugees from Denmark to Sweden, lots of lost souls (we don't have a scared emoticon :( )
I believe the Bounty ship that sunk during Sandy is the same boat that was moored at the fuel docks in the late 90's
 
Spent nights but never lived on board. Local guy lived in this until recently.
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