Visitors from south of the border

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Jo and I had visitors today.
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[BrianW]

Hey! No wonder those two have been quite lately (around here that is.)

:D

[StevenBauer]

Those guys sure get around. ;)



Steven

[Mrleft8]

High gas prices? What high gas prices? :D

[paladin]

Who's the short guy?

[Paul Pless]

How odd is it that I leave Alabama and go to Canada to get sunburned???

[Paul Pless]

We had a great time as we always do when visiting Jo and Allan; we took a tour of a few boatyards and yacht clubs and had a fantastic dinner to finish the day.

I'll get boat pics up soon.

[mmd]

Shhhh! Don't tell anybody that we have periods of no snow, warmth, and (egad!) SUN! You will absolutely ruin Dingo's mental image of us! <wink>

[Paul Pless]

Just your average boat in Allan's yacht club. There were dozens of these around, you see one you've seen em all eh?;)

Pretty cool actually, big overgrown sharpie. About a 10' draft on that bulb keel I reckon, and check out the daggerboard up front for sailing upwind.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0343.jpg

[Paul Pless]

Allan will have to tell you more about this one, pretty cool story though; and a nice looking boat to boot.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0345.jpg

[Paul Pless]

Folkboat with an altered cabin.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0350.jpg

[Paul Pless]

For Mickey, and everyone else that likes fast, low, long, narrow boats.:D

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0348.jpg

[Paul Pless]

Speaking of 'fast, low, long, narrow boats' . . .

Laura Ellen:

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0351.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0352.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0353.jpg

[Paul Pless]

Two Bored Ladies ;)
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0371.jpg

[Paul Pless]

Hard to imagine being bored where Allan works on his boat, just look around...

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0370.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/PaulPless/IMG_0372.jpg
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[Dale H]

Shhhh! Don't tell anybody that we have periods of no snow, warmth, and (egad!) SUN! You will absolutely ruin Dingo's mental image of us! <wink>

True, but... the ice came off the lakes around here only two weeks ago and we'll have snow again by November!;)

Hope you both had a great visit to the "Great White North"!:)

Dale

www.alistego.com

[boylesboats]

Good to see everyone have a great time...
Paul, you're just happy with that camera, I like those shots you took..
It is great to see some woodies... Got any more?

[John B]

Wow, those are some big ducks you've got there.

ohhhh, I seee....:D

[The Bigfella]

Good photos guys.

Quick question - what sort of gun do you use on thise ducks in the first photo?

[The Bigfella]

Ha! Great minds think alike eh John?

[boylesboats]

Ducks? Look like geese to me...
Be awfully tough on teeth to bite into them..

[davidagage]

Paul and Kat, and Allan and Jo,

Looks like a great time,

I like the green storage units in the folkboat picture, what a neat idea for your gear!

DG

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Jo and I also took time to show Paul and Kat the dominance of Canada's oil industry, with a drive through Petrolia.

Petrolia North America's oil industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_industry) was born in 1858 when James Miller Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Miller_Williams) built the first successful oil well on a deposit of "gum beds (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gum_bed&action=edit&redlink=1)" located near the present-day towns of Oil Springs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Springs%2C_Ontario) and Petrolia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrolia%2C_Ontario), in the southwest corner of Ontario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario), Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada). The beds had first been recognized by the Tripp brothers in 1851, but they failed to develop the find and sold the rights to Williams. Williams pumped 1,500 m³ of crude oil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil) from his wells in his first two years. He then launched the first integrated oil company -- exploring, drilling and refining the oil into finished products -- with the founding of "The Canada Oil Company" in 1860.
For the next 50 years, these fields supplied 90% of the oil consumed in Canada and Petrolia became home to the world's most advanced oil development and refining technologies. The boom times were over by the turn of the century, but commercial wells continue pumping to this day. In all, the region has produced an estimated 10 billion barrels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_%28unit%29) (1.59 km³). When the Petrolia oil rush began to slow, the drillers there who had learned how to get oil from the ground efficiently found their skills and methods in high demand. Oil men who learned their trade in Petrolia dispersed around the world, to as many as 87 countries, to open today's great oil fields in the Middle East (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East), Gobi Desert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_Desert), South America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America), and elsewhere.




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