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> It as a fifty foot Beneteu rented from the Moorings located on Raiatea.
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Bill wrote:
> Does that have a helipad on it ;-)

Lu responded:
>  Yes, but only for something like these:  http://www.centuryheli.com/  :-P

You will think I am pulling your leg (making this up) but I know a character
with more money than common sense.  He bought a 42' center-cockpit Beneteu
which he insisted on adding cutter rigging to (for day sails and short
cruises on Lake Michigan) because it looks pretty.

He has also been known to rig a mast holder from salvaged aircraft landing
gear for trailering his old 25' Catalina behind his 4-rear-wheel (dualie)
diesel pickup truck (purchased new to haul the 25' used boat). He also
designed a semi-functional gin pole for mast raising, again from salvaged
aircraft parts.

His brother has a one-man helicopter, as well as many other toys.  One being
an aircraft that supposedly will deploy a parachute and lower it to terra
firma if the craft gets into trouble. This acquaintance is trying to figure
out how to construct an appendage to his new-used Beneteu so his brother may
land his helicopter on the "helipad" while the boat is on the Lake Michigan.
I suspect if this venture fails, he may be the recipient of yet more
salvaged aircraft parts.

For those of you asking the big question (not whether I have gone mad or am
trying to pull off an April Fool's joke on the wrong date), yes.  He has
bred, and has a son and daughter in their mid twenties. Can it be long
before someone from that gene pool wins the Darwin Award?

Bill


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