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You Should Deliver Yachts
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| March 31, 2019
| CW4 MICHAEL W. CARR
Posted on 04/01/2019 8:56:06 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: Doogle
Did the yacht owners blame your uncle for the loss? Maybe thought he abandoned ship too soon?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The abandon ship part was made for him by the yacth..
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posted on
04/01/2019 12:24:58 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: ProtectOurFreedom
No blame on his part...he had good relationship with owners...and good reputation.
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posted on
04/01/2019 12:29:38 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: cuban leaf
My brother pays the captain of his boat house a nice six figure income.
That's to keep her from divorcing him......
To: Hot Tabasco
To: SkyPilot
My uncle was a yacht salesman for Chris Craft based out of Grand Haven, MI back in the late 60's and 70's. He also had a captains's license so he would also do boat deliveries.
After I got out of the Army in Jan. of 1972, I immediately got a job at a manuf. plant here in Detroit but was laid off a month later. In the beginning of May, I got a call from my uncle asking me if I wanted to crew for him on a yacht delivery he had to make from Minnesota all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, down the Mississippi river.
That would have been an experience of a life time for me but I had to decline since I had just been called back to work at the plant a week later.........
Not long after that, I got a call from Chrysler for a job interview......I worked my entire life at the plant but missed a trip on the Mississippi. Who knows what fate would have had for me had I gone with my uncle then got hired by Chrysler.........LOL!
To: Doogle
Yacht.....having trouble spelling yacht
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posted on
04/01/2019 2:27:14 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: umgud
Nope, no license. I drive my yacht and don’t have one. Got a driver’s license, but, not a car.
We live aboard, and, drive our own boat.
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posted on
04/01/2019 3:52:23 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Doogle
It’s spelled Yacht, but, it’s pronounced Throat-Wobbler Mangrove!
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posted on
04/01/2019 3:54:02 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Hot Tabasco
What a story! And thanks for your service veteran!!
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posted on
04/01/2019 4:34:36 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
To: Conan the Librarian
Maybe he just didn’t feel up to it then. He does drive it on short trips now.
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posted on
04/01/2019 6:50:32 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: fishtank
Walked out. And that is why he lived to tell the story.
When I was in high screwl I worked at a marina. I saw a lot of stupidity and a hell of a lot more money than good sense.
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posted on
04/01/2019 6:55:28 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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