[Rhodes22-list] Empress of the flies

[Bill Effros]

Neat!

Your boat is fine right now.  1:06 your time.

Bill Effros

Ronald Lipton wrote:
> We had our annual sail from our storage location in my back
> yard in Michigan City, In to Monroe Harbor in Chicago.  It
> was a beautiful weekend, winds were predicted to be 10-15
> knots, minimal waves, and indeed it started out as a great
> sail. But about 2 hours into the trip the wind died and the
> flies came.  I have never seen so many.  They absolutely covered
> the boat.  We had to wrap ourselves in towels to keep them
> from crawing all over us.  And they bite...  We turned the
> engine on full - got out anything that we could swing, and spent
> the next 5 hours swatting.  Not a great time.  I have been having
> fly dreams ever since and have been swatting specks in the
> wall and old picture hangers for the last two days (I need to get
> my eyes checked too).
>
> Anyway we made it.  The last hour the wind picked up, the flies
> lessened, and we had a good sail.  I also have the advantage
> of being able to check on my boat anytime day or night with this
> website:
> http://live6.truelook.com/face/sqface.jsp?func=live&name=/adler/skyeye/camera1&pan=111.44636&tilt=-1.6730492&panfov=39.11518&tiltfov=29.336386&overlay=default&skin=default&useapplet=true&time=1149008343445&width=640&height=480&quality=65&catalogname=catalog&imagemap.x=305&imagemap.y=229&imagemap.w=30&imagemap.h=22 
>
>
> (these settings point you right at the Empress of Blandings).
>
>
> Ron
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