Wednesday, October 19, 2005

The Last Days of the Bar Bound


Mid-February, the Bar Bound, is high-centered on a bar stool, in the Fish Taxi's front yard. The bow-picker Bar Bound was given to us and we never did more to it than store it in our front yard. Crazy, I know. But that was cheaper than it being in the water or sitting on dry dock in Valdez boat harbor. Costs you more to have it on dry dock than in a slip. More wooden boats have been burned on the Valdez dry dock than were sunk in the Japanese invasion on Pearl Harbor. Its a crying shame. One of our old boats, the Freebird, was a 38ft landing craft from the Korean War. Leave it to Huntley to have a boat that now sits in a museum somewhere back east. Only because some Korean War buffs were in town and noticed it and got it for dock fees. Otherwise, the City of Valdez, would have burned it up. Pissed me off at the time but now I'm thinking about burning the Bar Bound. Controlled, permitted and what else?

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