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Old 02-26-2020, 04:34 PM   #501
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Here you go, Al. Even though these are panos, they give an idea of how spacious Gotcha’s saloon is. Great times, indeed!
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Jewel and I had such a good time. She doesn’t let me out of the house to meet people very often, so it was a real treat! [emoji56]
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Thanks to all for what was, IMO, the BEST TF Gathering so far! They keep getting betterer and betterer!

Great friends, great food, great drinks, great boats, great times...what more could you possibly ask for besides great weather. But the stormy skies and near-gale force winds didn't really slow us down a bit. Pilou's sweater was almost lost to Davey Jones' locker while touring Irv's 54 GB Gotcha but her recovery was successful!

Here are my photos and I know others have some great group pics from Friday and Saturday nights. I hope Ian, Wendy and the others will be able to post them up here.

Irv, I think Ollie and Pilou deserve the Long Distance Award this year. France is about twice as far as Northern California. It was so great to finally meet them after several unsuccessful attempts in the past on the best coast. Great Secret Guests, Don!

Ollie/Pilou and I now looking forward to a summer cruise into the California Delta with our boats following the July 4th celebrations. Anyone else want to join in a TF Delta Gunkholing Cruise in July 2020? Good ground tackle and a dinghy required for maximum fun and flexibility. (New thread at a later date.)

PS. I counted 25 people seated and eating in Irv and Watfa's salon, galley and lower helm during our Saturday night dinner. That was most impressive!! Then, after dinner, we ALL congregated in the cockpit for the raffle! Thanks to all who contributed prizes. No left empty handed, hungry or unhappy. Just sorry Trina fell ill before the big night. Hope she's on the mend or over it by now.

OMG, that last pic. [emoji23]
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OMG, that last pic. [emoji23]
I know!! I can feel the pain of the next morning!!!
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AAAANd thats how it starts...Lunch and good conversation. The next thing you know, Dwight Yokums on the TV and dancing bears appear...and its 0030
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aaaand thats how it starts...lunch and good conversation. The next thing you know, dwight yokums on the tv and dancing bears appear...and its 0030

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Just sorry Trina fell ill before the big night. Hope she's on the mend or over it by now.
Thanks, Al; just saw this. She’s all good. Just rotten timing.
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Larry and I are headed back to Hobo tomorrow. It was weird being part of the TF gathering without her this year, but this group is so hospitable and welcoming that even van campers can feel at home. Thanks to all for all the hard work (Watfa outdid herself again) but most especially for the camaraderie - and the occasional belly laugh!
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Thanks, Al; just saw this. She’s all good. Just rotten timing.
Ian, glad to hear that Trina’s better. Lou had an arthritis flair up, and I took her over to the same “doc in the box” on Thursday. She was in terrible pain. The doc was good and seemed to have a handle on her problem. When she got home and went to her arthritis specialist on Monday, her doc said the inflammation was under control. So, it was worth the long wait.
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Ian, glad to hear that Trina’s better. Lou had an arthritis flair up, and I took her over to the same “doc in the box” on Thursday. She was in terrible pain. The doc was good and seemed to have a handle on her problem. When she got home and went to her arthritis specialist on Monday, her doc said the inflammation was under control. So, it was worth the long wait.
Hate that she had to go through that, Don. The doc at Urgent Care was great—once we finally got in. CVS was spectacularly awful . . . right down to the stereotypical passive-aggressive “clerk-who-doesn’t-give-a-s**t” who ate up much of our Saturday. I ended up calling CVS corporate to complain.
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Hate that she had to go through that, Don. The doc at Urgent Care was great—once we finally got in. CVS was spectacularly awful . . . right down to the stereotypical passive-aggressive “clerk-who-doesn’t-give-a-s**t” who ate up much of our Saturday. I ended up calling CVS corporate to complain.
Ian, There is a Walgreens at the corner of S 25th St and Hiway 70 that couldn’t have been nicer. We have used that pharmacy before with same results. I have tried to get a prescription refilled at CVS on S US 1 with similar results to yours.
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Had we known you were coming by road trailer we would have put up the closed/full sign. Next time bring Homo.

Watfa says thanks for all the help, and thanks to Jewell. Plus all the guys thank Wendy for attending (Baker not so much).
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Looks like a lot of fun was had by all. One of these years our family ski trip won't be on the same dates - I hope. Our date is a bit out of my hands - dear friend has house in Aspen she loans to us each year - but she sets the dates. Beggars can't be choosy
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Thanks to all for what was, IMO, the BEST TF Gathering so far! They keep getting betterer and betterer!

Great friends, great food, great drinks, great boats, great times...what more could you possibly ask for besides great weather. But the stormy skies and near-gale force winds didn't really slow us down a bit. Pilou's sweater was almost lost to Davey Jones' locker while touring Irv's 54 GB Gotcha but her recovery was successful!

Here are my photos and I know others have some great group pics from Friday and Saturday nights. I hope Ian, Wendy and the others will be able to post them up here.

Irv, I think Ollie and Pilou deserve the Long Distance Award this year. France is about twice as far as Northern California. It was so great to finally meet them after several unsuccessful attempts in the past on the best coast. Great Secret Guests, Don!

Ollie/Pilou and I now looking forward to a summer cruise into the California Delta with our boats following the July 4th celebrations. Anyone else want to join in a TF Delta Gunkholing Cruise in July 2020? Good ground tackle and a dinghy required for maximum fun and flexibility. (New thread at a later date.)

PS. I counted 25 people seated and eating in Irv and Watfa's salon, galley and lower helm during our Saturday night dinner. That was most impressive!! Then, after dinner, we ALL congregated in the cockpit for the raffle! Thanks to all who contributed prizes. No left empty handed, hungry or unhappy. Just sorry Trina fell ill before the big night. Hope she's on the mend or over it by now.

Al, my good friend, sorry to dethrone you from the reward of the longest distance in which you triumphed hands down over previous years, indeed all good things must come to an end, in our increasingly globalized world no doubt that competition is tough

Then if the 2021 TF gathering would still allow international members to attend we will be very glad to join again by spending more time with this very friendly group.

Until that, we will be happy to join your flotilla following the 4th of July celebrations in the California delta. I hope you don't mind that I am sharing this great pic of Flywright taken from your beautilful calendar "2020 Delta Bridges" which you kindly shipped us.

P.S. it's good that Pilou shared the secret with Belle (BandB). It was the proof that women are very good at keeping secret BUT they need to get together to do so (just kidding, of course).



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I don’t care what anyone says, you and your lovely bride are welcome anytime to the Ft Pierce Gathering as long as I am there. You guys add class to our motley (Wendy excluded as she certainly is not motley).

Thanks for attending, next year Watfa has a great meal being planned.
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Irv, Jewel said she is sad you called her motley. [emoji51]

Well, she might have been a little bit motley Friday night...
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Tell Jewel I owe her, my bad, Jewel certainly isn’t motley.
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I don’t care what anyone says, you and your lovely bride are welcome anytime to the Ft Pierce Gathering as long as I am there. You guys add class to our motley (Wendy excluded as she certainly is not motley).

Thanks for attending, next year Watfa has a great meal being planned.
Thank you very much Irv for your thoughfulness, we are looking forward. Pilou will be glad to help and assist Watfa in her task, she is very efficient when she has a mission to accomplish .

A motley group ? Even better ! That's what all of this is about.
Nothing is more annoying than uniformity. As the French saying goes : "l'ennui naquit de l'uniformité" which can be translated as "boredom was born a day of uniformity".

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Great news, Watfa has been recruiting galley slaves for years first Lena and also Jewel (Wendy has been more difficult to recruit she seems more interested in Baker which none of us understand). Watfa’s goal is sit back and drink red wine while the others do the work (you didn’t hear that from me) and accept the accolades. Pilou sounds like her newest recruit.

Looking forward to next year. We really look forward to spending time with our Trawler Forum family, it the highlight of our boating year.
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Al (Flywright) came in Fort Pierce with a copy of the great calendars “Delta Bridges 2020” he made himself , so I would like to return to that topic about the bridges in the Bay Area we discussed there between two guys who love bridges rather than walls. Hopefully I am not hijacking this thread.

In 2012 a major renovation "The Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Retrofit Construction Project" was performed on the Bridge infrastructure which was the installation of new roadway deck panels (fabricated in Napa, CA) that replaced the North Anchorage Housing roof/roadway deck. The first new deck section was installed on February 13, 2012, the last roadway deck section was installed on July 9, 2012. This work was done at night with traffic allowed to cross the Bridge at all times.

At that time, since one of the operating major companies was owned by a good friend of mine in Marin County, CA, I got one of the iron bars built between 1935 and 1937 at the original construction of the Bridge which had just been replaced by new ones. These bars were welded to large metallic powders on the deck bridge to maintain its steel structure. On-site of my friend’s company we cut the bar into 3 sections for easier transport on my flight back to France.

On attached picture it's interesting to note the bending of the right section due to weight constraints which resulted in a mechanical deformation. Perhaps that flexibility of the materials provided good resistance to different pressures also to weather conditions especially temperature shocks ? just wondering.

These original sections of Golden Gate Bridge remained in place during 75 years, bearing traffic of 1,941,900,000 vehicles (*) (**) for the period between the bridge opened to traffic in May 1937 and the Bridge Seismic Retrofit Construction Project in 2012. In late 2012 these historic pieces of iron became mobile in turn, traveled 6,000 miles from Marin County CA to my home in France, leaving Pacific ocean to cross Atlantic ocean. As I write this post, one of these original Golden Gate Bridge sections is traveling 6,000 miles again, now from my city back to San Francisco Bay which seems to be a just return, for a well-deserved retirement aboard Al's boat "Flywright".

(*) Plus about 10,000 pedestrians rolling across the Golden Gate Bridge every day along with 6,000 bikes, according to current estimates from the District.

(**) On October 17, 1989 during evening commute the Bay Area experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Golden Gate Bridge wasn't damaged, then to the failure of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 30,000 to 40,000 drivers were diverted from the East Bay to Highway 101 and the Golden Gate Bridge in addition to the normal daily traffic on Highway 101. On October 27, 1989, the all-time record of 162,414 vehicles crossed the Golden Gate Bridge in both South and North directions.
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