2003 Guestbook

2003 Guestbook
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Name : JIm Lee
Your Webpage : www.djlsolutions.com
Email : jimlee@wanengineers.com
Comments : Great info - keep up this great site for us Texans comin your way!
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Date : 12-18-03

Name : David Cornall
Your Webpage :
Email : dcp@ihug.co.nz
Comments : Hi,well done very helpfull website ,I have a 1980 sedan45 CHB,I know of four other CHBs here in Auckland
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Date : 08/12/03

Name : Cecil Bergeron
Your Webpage :
Email : cjberg@bellsouth.net
Comments : Loved your article on the West Marine Web Site. Im a sailor at Cypremort Point but Id love to do more trips under power.
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Date : 12/02/03

Name : John Ventura
Your Webpage :
Email : jventura@msn.com
Comments : Charles- I really appreciate your postings on TWGL and CHB discussion group. I recently bought a 1981 CHB (Present) classic trunk, and this past week have been involved in cleaning my fuel tanks...a task Ive been avoiding but began because of your detail
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Date : 12/1/03

Name : dennis &karen kennedy
Your Webpage :
Email : dk43@peoplepc.com
Comments : I DO REMEMBER WILLIAM BENDIX.... Well be retiring in June or July of next year and am considering buying a trawler. Probably will take some Coast Guard courses. I have 13 years sailing experience on the Great Lakes but would need to gain trawler experi
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Date : 11/26/2003

Name : Frank
Your Webpage :
Email : fbales@ligtel.com
Comments : Charles & Pat, thoroughly enjoying your website. Charles, after reading Pats account of the Grand Isle trip Id say let her do the writing. :) Frank & Tammy Bales
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Date : 11-23-2003

Name : Johnny Hughes
Your Webpage :
Email : jwsailor@cableone.net
Comments : Just wanted to say hi from the Ocean Springs Harbor
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Date : 11/17/03

Name : Dave Davis
Your Webpage :
Email : davekdavis@charter.net
Comments : over the last few months we have greatly enjoyed your letters and trip logs. We would like someday to try some of those and as we live in south texas it would not be too much of a trip to get there.
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Date : 11/16/03

Name : Steve Winkle
Your Webpage : None - at present
Email : steve.winkle@algx.com
Comments : Dear Charles & Pat - Really enjoyed visting your site. My wife and I are going to FL in a couple of weeks to look a trawlers. Among them is a 1988 Chung Hwa in Bradenton. Id appreciate any information you have on what to look for in a well cared for bo
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Date : 11/10/03

Name : Marvin Heide
Your Webpage :
Email : heide163@aol.com
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Date : II-10-03

Name : Reggy Hurr
Your Webpage :
Email : 1hurryup@msn.com
Comments : Very intrested in your Red River trip. I berth my boat in the Clearlake Area of Texas and your trip is doable for me. Would like to have more details and planing required.
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Date : 11/03/03

Name : Colleen
Your Webpage : http://www.angels4real.com
Email : ctbaker@pioneer-net.com
Comments : Great site, even great boat. May all your trips to sea be safe and fullfilling. God Bless, Colleen
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Date : 10/25/03

Name : Ken Husch
Your Webpage :
Email : calmh2o@telusplanet.net
Comments : Enjoyed the info in regards to the GICW. We are looking forward to traveling from Vancouver, Canada down south having the boat trucked into Texas then doing the Circle Trip. I will continue to monitor this site
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Date : Oct 19,2003

Name : GeneHarris
Your Webpage :
Email : ebharris@swbell.net
Comments : You are doing a great job, just keep it up. I enjoy your articles very much and find them informative. On the tieing up procuture, you are so correct, reminds me of building a fence, what side are you going to put the barbed wire?, to keep the cows in or
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Date : Oct 11,2003

Name : Don Graf
Your Webpage :
Email : dongraf@yahoo.com
Comments : Thanks for the hint on using vinegar to remove the diesel smell from the bilge of our trawler. It worked perfectly!
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Date : 10/06/03






Name : Carolyn Manning
Your Webpage :
Email : cjmanning2000@yahoo.com
Comments : Great read sounds like you guys are having a blast keep ejoying the water and be safe.Love Carolyn
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Date : 12 Sept 2003

Name : Bruce Braswell
Your Webpage : n/a
Email : bras@att.net
Comments : Good info.
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Date : 9/07/03

Name : Wray West
Your Webpage : www.anjumal.com
Email : wraywest@anjumal.com
Comments : Thanks for sharing your tips here on your web site and on the TWL. I appreciate your helpful advise. -Wray
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Date : 9/7/2003

Name : MIKE RYAN
Your Webpage :
Email : MARINETRDR@AOL.COM
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Date : 9/6/03

Name : MIKE RYAN
Your Webpage :
Email : MARINETRDR@AOL.COM
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Date : 9/6/03

Name : Gregory Han
Your Webpage : greghan.com
Email : twl@greghan.com
Comments : Love reading about your experiences.
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Date : 9/6/03

Name : Harry Hartzell
Your Webpage :
Email : harryhartzell@sbcglobal.net
Comments : Have read your comments on the Trawler World site for several years and have gleen an amount of knowledge concerninging Perkins 6.354s. I have a 1973 Gulfstar Trawler The Dabbler (Passagemaker Magazine had a Photo of it)with 135hp Perkins and am always in
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Date : 9/4/03

Name : Bill Seward
Your Webpage :
Email : wseward@satx.rr.com
Comments : Great website! I am new to the trawler life style. Just purchased a 39 C&L Searanger Europa Sedan with 2 volvo diesels (124hp each). I am trying to communicate with other owners of similar boats, do you know if C&L is still in business or has the name cha
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Date : 9/4/03

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Your Webpage :
Email : mfedak7587@aol.com
Comments : I have enjoyed your writings over the years on the CHB website, MTOA, as well as Passage Maker. If you ever travel to the Left Coast - Pacific North West we would
More ... : enjoy meeting with you and your wife. Mike and Debbie Fedak Panasea 44 LaBelle
Date : 9/3/03

Name : Read Ruggles
Your Webpage :
Email : read1074@aol.com
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Date : 08/23/03

Name : Uwe a.k.a. Grumpy
Your Webpage :
Email : notyet@attcanada.ca
Comments : Hi: Finally Igot your website to open in my puter. Seems Netscape doesnt like it so I tried Explorer and it worked. Regards Uwe
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Date : 21-08-03






Name : Charlie Sawyer
Your Webpage : N/A
Email : saw2@cox-internet.com
Comments : Good work Charles. Enjoyed reading and will be back soon to read more. Charlie
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Date : 8/10/03

Name : Capt Wes Bartlett
Your Webpage :
Email : mancor@ix.netcom.com
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Date : 09 Aug 03

Name : M. Burt Wade
Your Webpage :
Email : mburtwade@earthlink.net
Comments : Enjoyed my brief visit to your web site. Will be back for further study.
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Date : August 5, 2003

Name : katte britte
Your Webpage :
Email :
Comments : no e mail address sorry
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Name : kevin guilfoyle
Your Webpage :
Email : kjgeye@webtv.net
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Date : 7-25-2003

Name : Christina & Salvatore Culotta
Your Webpage :
Email : salchris1@eatel.net
Comments : Great site! Loved the photos! Nice boat!!
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Date : 7/23/03

Name : ken maggio
Your Webpage :
Email : kenmajo@charter.net
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Date : 7/21/2003

Name : kevin guilfoyle
Your Webpage :
Email : kjgeye@webtv.net
Comments : i have a1984 35 chb oceanides we are in new bern n.c.
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Date : july 18 2003

Name : Gene Harris
Your Webpage :
Email : ebharris@swbell.net
Comments : I just want to let you know that Ive enjoyed reading your story about the Alabaa River. Im one of the few people you may ever know who in the 1960s and early 70s enjoyed the trips down Bayou Black, it was just nice to get out of the office and see the
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Date : July 6, 2003

Name : DeeDee & Bob
Your Webpage :
Email :
Comments : GREAT ARTICLE.
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Name : Greg and Carl Vernon
Your Webpage :
Email : vernogc@aol.com
Comments : Enjoyed your article on the trip up the Alabama River to Montgomery. Youre right WHY? Same thing Im asking myself re: an up coming adventure we are planning. Leaving Panama City, Fl and going to Pensacola, Mobile or Fairhope. Got any suggestions re: marin
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Date : June 24, 2003

Name : Phil & Vicki Stein
Your Webpage : na
Email : MIDLIFEMADNESS@aol.com
Comments : Looking for a trawler & getting ready to do the loop. Anyone interested in a 32 foot Maxum
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Date : 062403

Name : John Luke
Your Webpage :
Email : jluke2044@aol.com
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Date : 6/20/03

Name : Charles Gerard F
Your Webpage :
Email :
Comments : Nice site. Enjoy the updates on trips & info. Hope alls well for you both. Will we see you at the family reunion? C
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Date : 6/19/03

Name : Tac and Anne Taquinio
Your Webpage :
Email : anne@app-epi.com
Comments : Hi, Brandon just sent this to me. Great web page. Hope yall make it to the point soon. Wont be long Pat, and we will be grandparents.
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Date : June 19, 2003

Name : Hermann Pais
Your Webpage : groups.msn.com/brucerobertseuro1200
Email : hermann.f.pais@uol.com.br
Comments : Charles, Very nice site! I hope Ill sail around there someday. I visited New Orleans two years ago, awesome town.
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Date : 12/June/2003

Name : Harold Rochat
Your Webpage : www.superiorexplorers.com
Email : rochat@tcq.net
Comments : Nice trawler. My boat is a 37 ft Marinette I use to run scuba charters on Lake Superior. Lots of wilderness crusing up near Canada. I have started doing aluminum projects with a MIG welder I bought 8 years ago. I just bent and welded up 11/4 tubing for
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Date : 6/9/03

Name : Ronald Gremillion
Your Webpage :
Email : gremsg@communicomm.com
Comments : enjoy your site. If you are ever in Lake Charles again look us up. We are members of the Lake Charles Power squadron and love to cruse on our trawler as you do. See the lcps web site for local contact information. the dock at our power squadron building
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Date : 6/7/03

Name : Wilbur and Lois Lindstrom
Your Webpage :
Email : willo_boat@yahoo.com
Comments : live in in Louisana for five years in the Boutte (Luling) area. This is where we began our love of boating. Louisiana is a wonderful boating and fishing area.
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Date : May 28,2003

Name : Cole Cunningham
Your Webpage :
Email : colecaz@ieee.org
Comments : Loved your comments about the trip to Knoxville. My wife was born there and I went to high school there. We now have a Grand Banks and love reading about trips like yours. Thanks for sharing. PS. Found you via one of your posts on TWL
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Date : May 17, 2003

Name : Jack Ray
Your Webpage :
Email : wjray@usjet.net
Comments : I always enjoy your posts on TWL. Pragmatic and tested. I live in Minnesota, but was born in New Orleans and am eager to get back down South. Thanks for your nice site. Jack
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Name : Tom Culotta
Your Webpage :
Email :
Comments : Hey Cousins! May be getting down to your area within the next year. Will let yall know if and when. Great stuff on your site.
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Date : 5/1/03

Name : Larry/Maris Rubenstein
Your Webpage :
Email : bevsouth@att.net
Comments : Looking forward to seeing both of you again.
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Date : 5/1/03

Name : Roger & Faye Heath
Your Webpage :
Email : idlehour32@cox.net
Comments : Great Alabama Article Charles and Pat. Guess Ill have to subscribe. Roger and Faye
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Date : April 30, 2003

Name : Vicki Snowden
Your Webpage :
Email : dvsnow@bellsouth.net
Comments : The Alabama River picture is beautiful! You are constantly full of surprises. And to think I knew you when (and still do as well as your sister)!
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Date : 04/30/03

Name : Bianca Bennett
Your Webpage :
Email : b22k21@hotmail.com
Comments : very cool web page guys.
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Date : April 29, 2003

Name : Hal and Cheryl Baker
Your Webpage :
Email : Hal50@aol.com
Comments : Charles and Pat, Welcome again from Chattanooga. We are getting closer day by day to the trip to La. to visit you in the Bayou. Take care and call when you come this way again.
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Date : 4/29/03

Name : Bill & Gwen Cooke
Your Webpage :
Email : cooke_w@bellsouth.net
Comments : The site looks great. Good work.
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Date : 4/27/03

Name : Ken Jolliffe
Your Webpage :
Email : jkjolliffe@myexcel.ca
Comments : Thank you for sharing your boating experiences with us.
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Date : April 27, 2003

Name : Bill Favro
Your Webpage :
Email : wfavro1@rochester.rr.com
Comments : Enjoyed your web site; especially the repairs section! We are just getting ready to put our boats back in the water on Lake Ontario. Consequently, web sites like yours are the closest we come to actual boating! Bill Favro EASTNOR MAINSHIP 390
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Date : 4-27-03

Name : Donna Forrest
Your Webpage : www.thesharedvision.com
Email : donna_forrest@att.net
Comments : Have learned a lot from you on the trawler world list. Currently in Marathon and headed back to Beaufort, NC to arrive around June 1 or so and stay for summer. We liveaboard. Who knows after that? Possibly Great Circle in April of 2004. Nice website
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Date : 04/27/03

Name : Archie McCain
Your Webpage :
Email : mccain@bellsouth.net
Comments : Very nice website - great job. p.s. Keep up the great posts on TWL. They are informative and well written.
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Date : 4/27/03

Name : F. A. Nick Meloy
Your Webpage :
Email : mulatfl@att.net
Comments : Hi Charles and Pat.
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Date : 04/26/2003

Name : Louis & Peggy Letson
Your Webpage :
Email : letson@scottsboro.org
Comments : Good to hear from you. CEWitt told me you stopped by in Mobile Bay. LL
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Date : 4-25-03

Name : Karl Young
Your Webpage :
Email : ykarl@bellsouth.net
Comments : Very nice web site.
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Date : 4/24/03

Name : David Okerlund
Your Webpage :
Email : seayalater@mybluelight.com
Comments : Christi and I are liveaboards in Olympia, Washington and own a 44 1978 Puget Trawler Olympic Chief. We are looking for a Puget Trawler enthuiasts group. Is CHB the umbrella organization. I saw your Reply to Loretta? regarding the history of her CHB, and i
Date : April 18, 2003

Name : Mike Reesby
Your Webpage :
Email : mareesby@bellsouth.net
Comments : I want to buy a used Marine Trader, 34 or so, but need help or guidance. I live in Baton Rouge, am experienced with boats, can you help? Many Thanks Mike Reesby
Date : 17 April 03

Name : John Esch
Your Webpage : in process-in mind
Email : johnesch@ix.netcom.com
Comments : I liked the Grand ISle trip and we may try to give it a run from Texas. Ill have to layout what it would take. John & Cyndi Esch PS No day is so bad that it cant be fixed with a nap!!
Date : 4/6/2003

Name : Phil de lEtoile
Your Webpage :
Email : Pdeli@attbi.com
Comments : Great site!
Date : 3/10/03

Name : Lou Letson
Your Webpage :
Email : letson@scottsboro.org
Comments : Web site looks good Have a great trip to Tulsa!
Date : 9 March 03

Name : jack mulvee
Your Webpage :
Email : jdmulvee@earthlink.net
Comments : charles-now that youve come out of the closet with your profession,we are brothers of the bar.my late father would say its the only one i ever passed[joke]
Date : 02/23/03

Name : Mark McCurdy
Your Webpage :
Email : mark.mccurdy@sympatico.ca
Comments : Thankyou for posting the pictures Charles! They gave me a coiple of good ideas! Cheers and safe journeys.
Date : Jan 31/03

Name : Tim Smith
Your Webpage :
Email : trawlertim99@hotmail.com
Comments : Thanks for your help. My Gulfstar Slow Poke will have speedliner decks this spring!!
Date : 1-30-2003

Name : John Duhe
Your Webpage :
Email : John_Duhe@ca5.uscourts.gov
Comments : Charles: Great site! We have abandoned rag sailing for a power boat and look forward to seeing you on the water. Call if you are in Lafayette anytime.
Date : Jan. 21, 2003

Name : Jim & Louise Jardell NOrleans Lady
Your Webpage :
Email : jardellj@aol.com
Comments : Enjoy your web site. After 50 years in New Orleans area we found ourselves in the San Francisco Bay,on a 34 Fu Hwa Europa. Took me 3 years of searching since I wanted a twin diesel. Looking forward to cruising with Roy Hollerman, Knot At Work, in So. LA s
Date : 01/06/03






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