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Cantdog
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DOOH !!!!!

Will do.....
There is a funny story about that Unc......my friend Steve built this boat...
https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/vortex

Named it Vortex

Seems he and some other friends were having breakfast aboard another sail boat of his in Bermuda one morning and had the ship's radio on. This guy comes on CH16 frantically calling Bermuda Coast Guard saying he was caught in a whirlpool.....they came back asking his position....he came back saying he had tried everything...was at full power and couldn't break free...going round and round and round...again they asked his position...again he pleaded for help saying he thought the craft was going down.....again they explained they needed his lon and lat position to be able to send help.....he came on breathing heavily and over the sound of the straining engine he managed to state his numeric position again pleading for help as the VORTEX was going to swallow him up!!!!! Bermuda CG came back directly saying "Sir.....you are located in the harbor anchorage...please cast off your mooring line".............He came back a minute or two later saying.. "Thank you Bermuda Coast Guard" Steve about spit his breakfast overboard.....laughed hard for days.......named his brand new racing boat VORTEX in honor of the occasion.....
 
tbone75
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There is a funny story about that Unc......my friend Steve built this boat...
https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/vortex

Named it Vortex

Seems he and some other friends were having breakfast aboard another sail boat of his in Bermuda one morning and had the ship's radio on. This guy comes on CH16 frantically calling Bermuda Coast Guard saying he was caught in a whirlpool.....they came back asking his position....he came back saying he had tried everything...was at full power and couldn't break free...going round and round and round...again they asked his position...again he pleaded for help saying he thought the craft was going down.....again they explained they needed his lon and lat position to be able to send help.....he came on breathing heavily and over the sound of the straining engine he managed to state his numeric position again pleading for help as the VORTEX was going to swallow him up!!!!! Bermuda CG came back directly saying "Sir.....you are located in the harbor anchorage...please cast off your mooring line".............He came back a minute or two later saying.. "Thank you Bermuda Coast Guard" Steve about spit his breakfast overboard.....laughed hard for days.......named his brand new racing boat VORTEX in honor of the occasion.....
He may have had kids !!! LMAO !!! Some people just need locked away fer good !
 
Stihl 041S
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There is a funny story about that Unc......my friend Steve built this boat...
https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/vortex

Named it Vortex

Seems he and some other friends were having breakfast aboard another sail boat of his in Bermuda one morning and had the ship's radio on. This guy comes on CH16 frantically calling Bermuda Coast Guard saying he was caught in a whirlpool.....they came back asking his position....he came back saying he had tried everything...was at full power and couldn't break free...going round and round and round...again they asked his position...again he pleaded for help saying he thought the craft was going down.....again they explained they needed his lon and lat position to be able to send help.....he came on breathing heavily and over the sound of the straining engine he managed to state his numeric position again pleading for help as the VORTEX was going to swallow him up!!!!! Bermuda CG came back directly saying "Sir.....you are located in the harbor anchorage...please cast off your mooring line".............He came back a minute or two later saying.. "Thank you Bermuda Coast Guard" Steve about spit his breakfast overboard.....laughed hard for days.......named his brand new racing boat VORTEX in honor of the occasion.....

Hard to believe that stuff when you are young.
See it when you get older and just shake your head.
 
Stihl 041S
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There is a funny story about that Unc......my friend Steve built this boat...
https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/vortex

Named it Vortex

Seems he and some other friends were having breakfast aboard another sail boat of his in Bermuda one morning and had the ship's radio on. This guy comes on CH16 frantically calling Bermuda Coast Guard saying he was caught in a whirlpool.....they came back asking his position....he came back saying he had tried everything...was at full power and couldn't break free...going round and round and round...again they asked his position...again he pleaded for help saying he thought the craft was going down.....again they explained they needed his lon and lat position to be able to send help.....he came on breathing heavily and over the sound of the straining engine he managed to state his numeric position again pleading for help as the VORTEX was going to swallow him up!!!!! Bermuda CG came back directly saying "Sir.....you are located in the harbor anchorage...please cast off your mooring line".............He came back a minute or two later saying.. "Thank you Bermuda Coast Guard" Steve about spit his breakfast overboard.....laughed hard for days.......named his brand new racing boat VORTEX in honor of the occasion.....
Stunning Sloop.......thanks for the link.
 

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