A reason for many of my smiles. Both in the past and to the future of that I am sure! I have been researching river boats lately and it has been fun. I am not interested in the poly glass boats that they seem to push around here in Central Texas. I just looked at a year old boat sitting in some one’s yard with a little dust accumulated from being on display. It was a sad thing to see the glass fade from dust and wind of the central Texas area. Aluminum boats seems to take the beating of intermittent use much better than the poly-glass boats. Hey, if I was going to be a three time a week boater plus heading to saltwater to fish three times a year I would consider a poly glass boats. But then all the miles on a trailer would take its toll would it not?
I would like a 22 foot boat. Small enough to trailer easily yet strong enough to handle rocky river bottoms as well as some time in a salt water bay. Something like the Sea-Ark boat series. It will have to be custom ordered through through a local dealer. I may have to go to Arkansas to watch it as it is built at the factory. At the very least I will have to have verbal and written communications with the engineers and the fabrication department. There is another shop in Colorado that looks like a good boat but it is a bow rider center console and I want a mid-cabin to be able to fish on both ends. The kind of boat that I would like to purchase would be a aluminum sea runner of some sort but then I would not be able to trailer it. The kind I would want would be 12 to 14 feet wide. Of course I cannot afford a twelve to fourteen foot ocean going aluminum sea vessel in Texas. I might as well sell the house and purchase a 42 foot Grand Banks then. Well… that is just not going to happen… now is it? If I had a picture of a sweet little devil I would insert it here…but I don’t. So I won’t.
The river boat will cost around the price of a Corvette or Camaro ( I had both cars scoped and priced out prior to heart surgery in July 2010). So I have will have a pretty good initial grub steak to finance this boat. I have to purchase land and get a shop built before I purchase a boat, It won’t take long to do any of these items once I decide to spend the money. It is not like I have to go to the bank and borrow the money.
So I had to pay if I wanted to play. With this new heart I have a feeling I am going to able handle a boat. There are a lot of places to go with a boat and explore, fish and hunt. I plan on going to a few of them in the upcoming years with my friends, brother’s, son or possibly by myself. I remember when I would think nothing of loading up the old wooden boat in Galena and heading off to any village on the Yukon with fifty gallons of fuel and oil and not much else. I made it through those times I think that I can make it through future times. I will go well prepared with proper planning. Are there any good rivers to fish, hunt or camp on in Indiana? I would like to try west river fishing in South Dakota and the Missouri river. Of course there is the Mississippi but for some reason I am reticent to float my boat on that river. How about traveling the Erie Canal? How much do you think it would cost in canal fees? All things I need to know. I am going to start researching how to do that very thing… using my computer on my satellite connection in my new boat on a lake near my property with the new shop that will be in Harker Heights while I get it all worked out. It should be fun!!! I might even rent moorage at the marina to make it all the easier to research these new trips.:)
I hope all have been feeling well these last few months. I will again apologize to all of you my faithful few followers for my paltry postings for recent as well as long term posting on my blog. My energy is developing. I can see some strength coming back. My zest for life seems to be rising at a steady but slow and controlled pace. I am as excited as a cat in a room full of rockers to experience life again. Things are really starting to perk up around here. Ellen has had some bad days with pain in her hip and its accumulated wear and tear of 20 years of military life.. I feel so helpless with the hip pain that she experiences. It is hard to remember pain when I do not have any pain. Yet I would help her in any way if I were able. In this case I am not. It is frustrating. How convenient…eh?
I figure I will be able to spend at least a month each year fishing, hunting, and camping. Plus, all the Boy Scout programs with and for my son, Kellen. I have eight years to get ready for my last Alaska moose hunt with my son, Kellen, a future Eagle Scout in the boat with me.
To coin a phrase from the TV show the “A-TEAM” …. “I love it when a plan comes together.” I see my former spiralling life coming into focus with clarity and control. With faith and trust I seemed to have stayed the course. It is a good time for me here in Texas. I am blessed!
Maybe we could work a trip out by combining NASCAR and fishing? No hurry but if you would be interested it would be my treat. For the first one… I hope we all live long enough to have many. Get in touch with me on the lake in the boat by the property I purchased. I may just want to stay home. How is that for a big spending fellar? Goofy is a term that comes to my mind. There are many others of which I will not mention. I know I am pretty happy at home!! What else matters?
I have said this before but I think I am going to be around a little more I have considerable energy and hopefully my enthusiasm does not wane.
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