Friends

Sometimes you just run into people that you seem to have a lot in common with. We met these folks on the internet that lived within 20 miles of us. As it turned out our boat slips were within sight of each other, we helped launch and retreive both boats this season. What I didn't know, Moe did, and on rare occaision there was something I knew that helped. We sailed together, kept an eye on each other for emergency purposes, anchored off together, ate together, ate some more together, enjoyed each others stories and company, helped each other where we could and made fast friends easily. I even served a term as "rail meat" aboard thier boat when the winds approached 20 knots and they needed an extra fat guy on the windward side to hold the boat down. Having friends on the lake make it all that much more special and we even made it through the whole season without running into each other. Even when rafting off three times.