RE: On keeping watch at " sea " [ Delaware River ]
Eric Johnson (eric@theftnet.net)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:41:27 -0700
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> Yesterday while solo cruising down stream on the Delaware River
> [ well to
> the side of the shipping channel of course ! ] I try to keep a good 360
> degree watch. Suddenly I hear a high rpm engine bearing down on me
> rapidily from astern ! "Oh my !" "Oh S___!" Spinning my head
> around I see _nothing_! Then swush...roar....about twenty five feet
> ABOVE my head....a single place, home-made ultralight roars overhead,
> also going downstream. "Smart ass"...as I wipe up my spilled cup of
> coffee with a paper towel!
You ought to come to Seattle some time - on Lake Union and Lake Washington,
Kenmore Air operates commercial seaplane flights, and you constantly see
these planes coming down. I've even seen 'em come down in the middle of the
course of a sailboat race.
And then there's the time I was in the north end of lake washington and went
aground right in the middle of their marked 'runway' during a gale. Had to
clean the shorts after that one.