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Its a tight squeeze, but in a much better location than years past.....so I'll take it. Of 9 fingers of docks before the gas dock, I'm on the last one which is nice far less wake.
 
After taking a closer look at some of the Liferafts/boats on board, I really appreciate all the engineering that goes into them but still hope that if they are needed, I get the big one with two props instead of the inflatable.

Notable features of the lifeboats: bow guard, props guards, four large entry doors, three hatches on the top, hardened cockpit with windshield wiper, grab rails on the top and bottom, I’m sure there is more.
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I’m old and “old school” but shouldn’t soup be ready to eat instead of ready to be assembled before it is served?
 

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I’m old and “old school” but shouldn’t soup be ready to eat instead of ready to be assembled before it is served?

That is not soup! It's "nouvelle cuisine".
 
That is not soup! It's "nouvelle cuisine".
Thanks I looked it up and agree with the definition. Unless nouvelle cuisine dishes come in bigger portions I won’t be a fan of the nouvelle diet. FYI it’s mushroom soup, there may have been enough mushroom slice to make a mushroom. It was tasty.
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Yep.. summer is here.. where did spring go?
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Dinner on the dock at Splash in Burlington.

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Picked up a extremely clean 2003 S10 crew cab ZR5 with 45K original miles for my son. Sheetmetal is spotless. Installed a 2" lift kit , 31" tires, and pushbar. Reminds me of the of the one I bought back in 2002 new from the dealer.
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Picked up a extremely clean 2003 S10 crew cab ZR5 with 45K original miles for my son. Sheetmetal is spotless. Installed a 2" lift kit , 31" tires, and pushbar. Reminds me of the of the one I bought back in 2002 new from the dealer.
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Don’t see many of these anymore. I remember there was a guy back in Cleveland that had one just like this with a 6’ snow plow. He even LineX the entire body to prevent it from rusting. Probably added another 2 tons to the weight. I was always a fan of the 1/4 ton quad cab trucks. If you didn’t need to tow something super heavy, or haul something too long, it worked out well.
 
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From The Hideaway on Okauchee Lake, a place familiar to the wife and myself from when we first met. Now, I'm delivering there, and I get the nice nighttime view
 
A Royal Caribbean ship came in and now I’m life boat jealous. When it comes to life boats, I think size does matter. Plus their (yellow) boats have Garmin avionics and bow thrusters:
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I am bummed that the helicopter excursion to the glacier got canceled due to poor visibility but glad the raft excursion did not.

Note that the seat cushions are fenders bolted in place. Life vests are in the seats and I think the rib is water jet propelled (I’m sure the much larger whale watching boat I was on is). In the rib I felt like I was both a back seat passenger on a PWC and on a boat since i didn’t get wet and he got it up to 40 MPH.
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I saw five flying at the same time near each other but didn’t get a pic.

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At one point there were three surrounding the rib within 50 feet of us. We were close enough to smell what they exhaled, it was a nasty odor that made some people onboard nauseous.
 
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