Going to IPMS in Atl?

I'll be hitting I-75S in the morning. Are you going tomorrow too?

Yeah probably be there late morning with a little one in tow. Look for a tan blackhawk hat and a three-year-old.

Mac

I went yesterday..kinda disappointed in t he helicopter showing.

Mac

I must have missed you. I hit the vendor area first and spent most of my time in there (too much time if you know what I mean).

I agree that there wasn't much in the Helicopter category. The only S-70 models I saw were two HH-60J Jayhawks. Only a handful of Cobras and a couple of Apaches.

I saw a couple of good Hinds in there. I only saw one Jayhawk but it was a good one. Maybe I'll just have to pony up some time and enter one. The worst that can happen is I lose, right.

Hey Trigger, how often do you get on the water? I noticed the USRA on your signature and was wondering. I played with it for about a year in school and enjoyed it but I didn't have the time then. I really don't now but I can dream of doing it again someday.

Mac

I know what you mean. I wish I'd finished up my Little Birds and entered them. They wouldn't have won, but at least there would have been some more whirlybirds on the table.


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Rowing? Not as often as I should or want to be. I was on the rowing team in college rowing sweep 8s and 4s (starboard bow pair). Remind me some time and I'll tell you how a coxswain nearly ran our 8 into a bridge at high noon in CAVU. I starting sculling a few years back and I actually like that better. I'm still a member of USR right now and there is a Rowing Club up here, Lookout Rowing Club. I was a member with them until I moved to Florida but now I'm back. I'd join up again tomorrow if it weren't for two things:

1. If I were to join tomorrow, the $350 annual membership, I'd have to renew 1 March 2006, not in a year. They don't pro-rate and SUCKS. There's three months left in the season, but $100 a month is pretty damn expensive in my book. So unless the change their policy (I'm working on that), it'll be next Spring when I'm back on the water. The club here is super paranoid about boaters freezing so they store the boats from November to April. I know, I know... there are regattas in November and other cold months... a lot they do doesn't make sense (and they wonder why they have a hard time getting new members)

2. I'm about to buy a house and I don't need to be throwing down $350 right now...

I love being on the water though. When I row, it's usually twice a day. 6am - the water's like glass at that hour and when I've got the boat running smooth - it's a great sense of peace. It's great excercise and stress therapy. After work, I'll race the joggers and bikers on the Riverwalk. Joggers are easy prey but the bikers will make you earn your win (especially if you're going upstream). There's also an annual 23-mile row thru the Tennessee River Gorge. I've even got an old school wooden sweep oar displayed in my living room; a "trophy" if you will

You've got Atlanta Rowing Club down there and their boathouse is on the Hootch somewhere in Roswell. ARC may cost more than LRC, but you have more freedom with the boats and you can work off some of you membership dues by volunteering at Regattas. In fact, Head of the Hooch is coming up: http://www.headofthehooch.org/

(I'll have to find out why the head of the Hooch is being held here.)

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I'd love to Trigger, but time seems to be the rarest commodity out there. I'll just have to dream and reminisc.

Mac