Things are looking up with James (JC) High and James (Jim) High
Things are looking up as we go into 2025! Interest rates going down, Fuel prices down, inflation down!
I can’t put my finger on it but optimism is in the air! The country’s 250th birthday is a year away. The world cup is coming and so is the LA Olympics.
Hopefully for the next few years things will be smooth.
It is also already close to the boating season so start getting those plans in order!
It is going to be a great boating season!
DAVE’S PHILOSOPHY ON BEER…
My Friend Dave AKA Tweaker has this unusual philosophy on drinking beer.
For years he has told me he is having his first beer of the day.
We were on a cruise ship 6 years ago sitting in the pool with our future wives and he orders his first beer of the day. Now I know it isn’t true, but he proclaims, “FIRST BEER OF THE DAY”. We had been in the pool for a few hours and had had more than just one.
This past fall Dave explained it to me… He had just one beer.
If he drank 6 beers that day and they were all the same, did he have more than one beer? Now Dave reasons it this way… Say He had 6 Yuengling’s and two Coronas… Now you have had Two Beers.
Say you do a six-draft beer flight. Each one is only a few ounces but now you have had 6 beers! If a beer is 12 oz, 48, or 240 oz each is still only one beer!
Thank You Dave for the amazing Wisdom!
A story about towing boats and Captain John Henderson (RIP)
When I was a kid, 15 years old my dad sent me from Middle River to Harbor place in downtown Baltimore to tow a 25-foot Penn Yan powerboat back our marina.
So, me and a 14-year-old left Middle River on a beautiful August day to run downtown and grab the boat. We passed under the Key Bridge, got to Harbor place and grabbed the Penn Yan. As we a pulling out in front of the Rusty Scup-per, Baltimore City Marine Police stopped us.
They ask what I am doing with this boat. I told them my dad asked me to grab it and tow it to Middle River, Boating Center of Baltimore.”
They asked if I had ID? I said “I’m only 15years old, I don’t have a driver’s license.
They told me then we had a problem! I stated to call their boss Captain John Henderson at which time they stated “John Henderson told us if anybody ever uses his name LOCK THEM UP IMMEDIATELY!” Then said, “Besides he is on vacation”
I stated, “I know, he is in St Micheals with his wife Kathy and sons David and Patrick, I am supposed to be with them”
My story must have clicked because they let me go! (Next issue: Running out of gas later that day).
Thinking about Evel Knievel
Being active on the Upper Bay waterfront, I have been involved in a lot of events. A whole lot.
Over the years sitting in meetings and talking about events I have sometimes explained the example of Evil Knievel.
A 1970’s and 80’s stunt man who was involved in many 2- and 3-hour television shows! (FOR A FIVE SECOND STUNT).
The show would start… the announcers would explain the day then cut to commercials.
We would get the history of Evil Knievel and a few previous failed jumps and a few good ones. Then cut to commercials.
Then an inter-view with Evil Knievel and another explanation of the jump and more commercials.
Then Knievel comes out on his motorcycle and does a couple of test runs and more commercials.
He runs the ramps up and down, tests the wind and makes a few other tests runs with more commercials.
Then he runs up the ramp, tests the wind again and goes for the jump but goes past it because some-thing just didn’t seem right and more commercials.
After 2 to 3 hours Evil Knievel finally does the jump!
He usually crashes and that’s what we waited for! Back to the commercials and televising the ambulances!!!
