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What kid hasn't built a raft to float on, and how many of them came apart?
I had my share, that's for sure..... but the difference between me and the guys in the story is that I was maybe 9 and these dumbasses are in their 20s.
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I sure hope they are not engendering students
ReplyDeleteWhy, they stayed afloat.
DeleteRaft building, Tree house construction, fireworks, cowboys and injuns. Life was good in the early 50s.
ReplyDelete20 Home Depot buckets? Plywood?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it have been cheaper to just buy a boat?
Huck Finn, not Tom Sawyer
ReplyDeleteYou're right. You can tell it's been a few decades since I read that story, huh?
DeleteHow long are we going to have to wait till the big one happens and comifornia falls into the ocean?!?!? Won't be soon enough.
ReplyDeleteTwo stories: when around 8 and 6, me and older brother set off across San Diego Bay on a truck innertube we found. A beach towel for a sail held in are up stretched arms. We made good time and congratulated ourselves on our liw cost ingenuity.
ReplyDeleteSeveral hundred yards off shore we discovered the tube was leaking air. Trepidation gave way to acceptance ad we figured it can't get worse. Besides, the sun was shining and we were on an adventure. That is when a sudden gust ripped the towel from our hands. Brother swam after it but me on the tube was making better time than he was. Especially as he had a wet (heavy) towel to slog back to our craft. Somehow we landed on the far shore none the worse. We left the tube and hiked the 7 miles through marsh and sand dune.
The other story was a newly founded sailing club at the local university. A guy took two girls for a sail. He boasted of his skills but it turned out he had very little sailing experience. The boat was found washed up on a beach in Baja Mexico. That was downwind and down current about 450 miles. The body of one girl was found months later, the two others never seen again.
Where I grew up it would have been a 45 minute drive to someplace to float a raft.
ReplyDeleteChattahoochee raft race - holy smokes that was something every year - until they cancelled it because so many rafts broke up and littered the river.
ReplyDeleteNothing but unadulterated fun lol
“ Firefighters said alcohol was not a factor in the bad boating decisions, the newspaper reported.” No mention of the copious amounts of the devil’s lettuce which inspired the original plan. I mean, c’mon...
ReplyDelete“ Firefighters said alcohol was not a factor in the bad boating decisions, the newspaper reported.” No mention of the copious amounts of the devil’s lettuce which inspired the original plan. I mean, c’mon...
ReplyDelete“ Firefighters said alcohol was not a factor in the bad boating decisions, the newspaper reported.” No mention of the copious amounts of the devil’s lettuce which inspired the original plan. I mean, c’mon...
ReplyDeleteAbout the only boating tomfoolery around here is the annual bathtub race in the lake downtown, held during the Independence Day festivities. You wouldn’t believe some of the contraptions that show up fir that!
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