Hi Connie, If you were here in the room, I would joke with you about a "Size Eleven where?" So get going. There are a lot of sailors out there (arm chair or otherwise) that can benefit from your stories. Things like that Thank You letter are priceless. Fair Winds, Gordon
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:25 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Re: Lifetime of Sailing weighs 62.3 Pounds > Hi Gordon, > > I have a pad at our dining room table to jot down sudden thoughts, and I > haven't even begun to page through my old Log Books. > > I just hope that I collected things like a thank you letter from a French > lock keeper (jobs that French veterans got) in my Log Book. He had asked > me for US stamps as he was a stamp collector, seeing the American flag on > the stern of our power boat as we were transiting his lock. > > In those days, all our mail coming into our Paris office, from our > Hartford, CT office still was covered with US stamps, so I collected > several day's worth of incoming stamps and sent them to him. > > The letter I got back was the most painstaking and beautiful exercise in > calligraphy you could ever imagine. > > It was written on a lined pad using a crow quill pen. It was a work of > art, by a man that probably only had had an Elementary School education. > > Just collecting all the reminiscences is already a fun job. > > Thanks for prodding me to get serious about doing it. > > Connie > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
