[Rhodes22-list] Ranger Friend

[Steve]

Good story, Bob.
Steve


--- Bob Keller <r22yankeeclipper at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ed & Others,
> This is a rare day at the office with not much going
> on, so let me finally 
> tell a little story about how I got to know my
> Ranger Friend with the 
> Georgia DNR.  I have avoided telling this story
> despite repeated urgings 
> from Rummy for one simple reason:  it is really
> embarrassing.  But, since it 
> occurred almost two years ago, it is easier to laugh
> about now.  It was May 
> 2002 and I was out sailing the relatively new (to
> me) R-22 on Hartwell with 
> three friends.  Great wind and a grand time, but it
> was time to head in, so 
> we were motoring in with sails furled.  Along comes
> a DNR boat (Dept. of 
> Natural Resources - the cops) who pulled up
> alongside and asked me where the 
> registration numbers were on the boat.  Since the
> boat came from Virginia, I 
> had removed the old numbers but never replaced them
> with the GA numbers.  
> The truth is that I did not know that these numbers
> were required, which is 
> what I told my DNR friend, whose name was Mr.
> Padgett, or Inspector Padgett, 
> as he is now known around our cove.  After checking
> my license and 
> registration, (I was sufficiently sober so that
> there were no S.U.I. issues, 
> plus, he was just getting warmed up), he asked about
> my fire extinguisher.  
> Didn't know I needed one, was my brilliant reply. 
> Then he checked our life 
> jackets, and I was wearing the Stearns belt pack
> variety and he began to 
> question the suitability of that, but decided it was
> OK.  He asked if I had 
> a head on board, Yes, Sir; then asked porta potti or
> marine head, and I told 
> him a marine head.  Then he asked if I had a
> "pump-out log," but in that 
> thick southern accent I thought he said "pump-out
> lock" (since I had never 
> heard of a pump-out log anyway) and I said yes. 
> Hey, my boat's not named 
> Yankee Clipper for nothing.  So, he asked if he
> could see it and I said yes. 
>   Then we just looked at each other and he asked
> again and I said, "sure, 
> it's on the Y-valve!"  Bingo!!  Inspector Padgett
> just hit the jackpot.  He 
> told me that Y-valves were illegal on inland lakes
> and that I would have to 
> remove it.  Then he wrote me a ticket for an illegal
> MSD which carries a 
> $1,200 fine.  I think he probably took pity on my
> ignorance and told me to 
> remove the Y-valve and call him and he would stop by
> and inspect the boat 
> and tear up the ticket if it checked out.  That is
> exactly what I did and 
> when he stopped by to look at it he was as nice as
> can be and hardly even 
> looked at the boat, but took care of the ticket. 
> Nice guy after all was 
> said and done.
> 
> The post script to this story is that the following
> spring we took the boat 
> back to south Florida, but I did not check the
> holding tank and it filled up 
> while we were on the trip.  We had to cut our trip
> short by a day to sail 
> back to a pump-out facility because there were no
> facilities anywhere 
> nearby.  Boy, was I pissed...
> 
> There, I feel better now having confessed all that.
> Bob K
> 
> 
> >From: "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net>
> >Reply-To: kroposki at innova.net,The Rhodes 22 mail
> list 
> ><rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Keller - S.U.I.
> >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:53:09 -0500
> >
> >Bob,
> >	On your side of the lake, the rules might be
> different, but on
> >the South Carolina side that ranger friend that
> knows you well, can cite
> >you for S. U. I.
> >	Sounds like you learned too well from Rummy's
> experience.  Were
> >you on that most famous episode?  Sounds like same
> causes....
> >             Ed K
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> >[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of
> >R22RumRunner at aol.com
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:52 AM
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Story: Forward Weight?
> >
> >Rik,
> >I have heard this story before and have some time
> to reflect on it and
> >come
> >to the conclusion that the entire problem was
> caused by "operator
> >error." The
> >real questions is: "Why would anyone want to do
> this knowing full well
> >what the
> >end result would be?"
> >Since we had been tied up for at least an hour or
> so, I believe rum was
> >to
> >blame for this incident. One hand on the rum and
> another on the cigar
> >doesn't
> >make for good sailing. Bob needs two more arms and
> >hands............they're
> >called crew.
> >
> >Rummy :)
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