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When I lived in Florida in the 60s, a young man I knew sailed a board boat from the West Coast of Florida, the Tampa area, I think, to New Orleans. A friend went with him on the boat. They came in each night, of course. I had an airplane at the time, and I flew his dad out and we intercepted them north of Cedar Key. We were able to communicate with a pair of toy walkie-talkies.
I don't know about accessibility of Lake Ponchartrain from the Gulf, but the trip would appear to be feasible in a Potter if it can be done on a board boat.
On our flight back, a fuel fitting broke on my old Ercoupe and we landed at Titusville, in a downpour, on our last drop of fuel...but that's another story.
Harry Gordon
P14 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA
>Weigh-2 Go,
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>Can you sail out the east end of the lake into the Gulf? Are there locks?
>dams? any other hazzards? I have this dream of Pottering from New Orleans to
>Pensacola. Thanks.
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>Chris Heidrich
>P15 2153 Tetra
>Aurora, CO
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