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Old 01-03-2020, 02:11 AM   #9
Beaverlake
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City: Sammamish
Vessel Name: Knot Home
Vessel Model: Bayliner 4788 - 1998
Join Date: Jan 2020
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Looking forward to making some new friends. Might even need to spring for a burgee!

Bacchus - to your question: Retired tech sales, marketing, ops, management both hardware and software. Made a whopping $1400 in startup tech stock options. Per Patti, the shirts lasted longer than the companies.

When I was ten, my Dad gave me a 5hp Evinrude to use with a friend two weeks every summer in N Wisconsin. That did it for me both boating and fishing. I’ve owned boats for about 25% of my adult life. (Including a couple sailboats.). Moved to the Seattle are in 1987 bringing a used Formula up from the Bay Area where I fished both salmon and sturgeon. The Formula became a Carver 28 and then a 32 sedan. I was taught PAC NW salmon fishing by one of the best. Work took over in the early 90s but couldn’t stay away. Next up a Tolly 26 for o months leading to a new Bayliner 3988 for 5 years. Then building a house AND work took over. Then cars. Then retirement and a trip to the Blackrock resort in Uculet on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Seeing Barkley Sound again did it. Fell prey to the premier provider of boat porn - Yachtworld. Patti caught me red-handed but the next thing I know we’re in a 1990 Tolly 44. 18 months later our 1998 Bayliner 4788 Knot Home.

2020 will be our third year with the boat. Our plans are to extend our concatenation 2019 Canada trip (made it to Chatterbox Falls, had to return home, then went out again but only to the Gulf Islandsj. This year is Desolation, Octopus Islands, south end of Johnstone, and return. Planning six weeks. Patti is leading a car club ladies only tour in August so I will drop her back home and then take two weeks to revisit Barkley Sound before returning.

We are fortunate to have good friends who are also great travel companions so we’ll have quite a few long weekend cruises the rest of the year. We’re year-round boater and enjoy both the chaos of high charter season and also the solitude of off season.

I look forward to meeting some of you during the coming months!

Gordon
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