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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Swing Set Takes a Shake Down Cruise

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  After all the work we had done on Swing Set during the previous winter and spring, we were getting anxious to take an extended cruise to g...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Some Flooding Affected Boating on the Alton Pool

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  The 2011 boating season on the Alton Pool of the Mississippi was one to forget for many of the boaters in the area, but not us. Flooding o...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

That Helpless Feeling When Draft Exceeds Depth

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  On a river, channel markers are nice guides, and charts have their use, but if channel markers get moved by wind or current, and the fluct...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

There Are Some Boating Experiences A Person Could Just Do Without

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  Some of my previous blogs have reviewed our boating history, but more of those had to do with what boats we have owned, as opposed to so...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

First Boat Watch of 2012

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  Dock space availability here on the Alton pool is cyclical. In 1998, when we brought our 28' Formula up from Lake of the Ozarks, it se...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Two Heads Are Better Than One

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  When we first looked at Swing Set we were impressed that a boat of its size not only had two heads, (or bathrooms, for our landlubber frie...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Just About Had Our Fill of Trailering Boats

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 By 1990 we had bought a used Ski Nautique and had sold our first condo at Lake of the Ozarks, and committed ourselves to life on the Merame...