Hey "reconus"-<br><br> Who are you and when were you in India 3/1?<br>I was with India 1st Plt. from Jan-April 1967.<br>Hope to see you at the India Co....
All you members who would like to get together should check out the reunion info on Olivers 3/1 website; updated as of 6/20/01 with more info and a list of...
Just a note to let you know! Lord willing Mom & I will be to the reunion in September! Made our reservations tonight! Looking forward to meeting many of You, ...
Hi y'all,<br><br>I'm going to be posting a true sea story. Is that an oxymoron? It occurred years ago but I want to share it. I'll be posting it in pieces, ...
This is in explanation of why I feel the story is necessary, and that is mainly to document it. I tried to share the story with cc8870 (my India 3/1 squadmate,...
Cast of Characters<br>Bruce: That's me. The story is from my perspective. I was in Florida on the launch campaigns for the Viking Spacecraft in 1975 and the...
Jolanta was the boat. The design was that of a 1908 Dutch North Sea Rescue vessel, double ended, deep hulled with a full running keel. The bow and stern were ...
My 3/1 amigos<br><br>I am checking in here mainly to help out 3/1 Brother BRU, with some of his writing. <br><br>Like perhaps, help him with some "critique"...
Hiya Eric,<br><br>Thanks for coming over to read the story. Feedback is pretty cool.<br><br>I gotta apologize for most of the cats in this club, they just ...
Tom transported the boat to the Cape Canaveral area of Florida by truck. Tom recognized the danger of gas engines in sailboats and he took that engine out and...
Well Bru, at least you got some cool "colors" over here at INDIA Company. I say we call these colors PENSIVE eh?<br><br>But then <br><br>I mean at that "other ...
Wally and I were in Florida on the Viking launch campaign. We spent 11 months there in total, but it was about halfway through our mission when we were...
Damn the story was getting interesting but then it ended! Ha! Of course I got the whole story (21000 words) in here in my documents, but I like this "one page...
1977 Found me going back to Cape Canaveral for the Voyager launch campaign. I drove and took my sailboat. I tried to set that 22 footer up as comfortable as I...
January 5th, 1978<br>I kept my end of the deal, arriving 5 January 1978. Tom and Lili were at the airport to greet me, and the drive from Orlando to the Space ...
"Varoom purr" Tacksa = thankyou for the invitation - grunt_68...I have met some of you who have visited & signed my Guestbook on my Webpage "Yours For The...
Ha! Just as you decribed it<br><br>Yeah I like the green color with them sharks teeth<br><br>Anyway I can see how a person could hardly miss it - in the water...
Yeah Herc, that's what I was thinking too. ha! Anyway this is looking like its gonna be a cool story<br><br>Especially now that we got the image of the GREEN...
January 18th, 1978<br>We had planned the short journey from Anchorage Marina to Matlocks Boatyard. Only about 6 miles down the intercoastal waterway then ...
January 20th, 1978<br>The first thing in the morning came and went with no welder. Midmorning, he did show up, but by that time the wind was up and he couldn't...
January 23rd, 1978<br>From Port Mayaca we planned to go all the way to Moore Haven, on the other side of Lake Okeechobee. The voyage from Port Mayaca to the...
January 24th, 1978 <br>At the Moore Haven city dock we met a couple of crazy cats who had bought a trimaran. These guys knew even less about sailing than we ...
BTW Herc, so far I see we got two heros so far. One is the boat Jolanata, and the other is Tom the shit bird. <br><br>Call it the heroine jolanta and an anti...
