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Bill wrote:

It as a fifty foot Beneteu rented from the Moorings located on Raiatea.

    

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  

Yet another example of the thin line between genius and insanity (and the number of people who can't tell where the line is...)

Lu

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