At 12:03 PM 1/27/98 -0600, Wesley Groot wrote:

>My Pair of Pennies:
>   Airfares are really low right now...
>   Why not go see Iain in person?
>   Edinburgh is a fantastic place to visit!
>   Bed and breakfasts are plentiful, and cost
>   about US$36 per night per person.

Come on!  We can do better than that!  I say let's get all the Galoots
together in Chicago and build 40-foot blue-water sailer.  All wood, put
together with nothing but handtools in honor of our woodworking forebears.
Esther, start work on the sails.  Once the ice is off Lake Michigan, we'll
sail north, through the Straits of Mackinac, down Lake Huron, down the St.
Clair River, past Detroit, across Lakes Erie and Ontario, down the St.
Lawrence Seaway, across the North Atlantic, round the north coast of
Ireland, through the Pentland Firth, down the North Sea, up the Firth of
Forth, round the Black Rocks into Edinburgh Harbor, where we'll ask Mr.
Oughtred his opinion on the ultimate wooden sailing dinghy that can be
built in just 3 weekends.

Whose with me then, lads?  For Galootdom and Glory!

-Barnacle Gil, the Sailor, who'll probably lose his ration of grog for this
post.

-Gil, still in Michigan

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