We pulled into Delaware City Marina about 5 pm and docked behind the catamaran "Assisted Living". What a great name for a boat!
We had a lot of help docking. The owner of the marina "Tim", a marina employee "Cory", and Rick Davis (Captain of the motor vessel "Assisted Living"), All helped with the lines. That is how it is on "The Loop". Great people everywhere, always willing to help.
Rick and Ann ask us to have dinner with them at "Crabbie Dick's". The menu is hilarious. This is crab country and they feature crab in a variety of ways including crab balls. There were five different kinds of balls on the menu. Need I say more...
While stopped at Delaware City Marina we attended a small briefing from one of the marina staff. They give nightly briefings on the particulars of leaving Delaware City and proceeding down the Delaware River and the Delaware Bay towards Cape May, NJ. The emphasis is on the tides, currents, and wind and whether the next day was an "acceptable" day to make the 61 mile journey. If any of those three components are too strong or running in opposite directions, the Delaware Bay can turn into a nasty place, very quickly.
Before the briefing the 8 to 10 people attending were making small talk as "Loopers" have a tendency to do. One of them mentioned he had been a Navy Helicopter Pilot in a past life. Of course now all the questions started about what did you fly? Where were you in Vietnam? When were you there? Who did you know? etc., etc., etc.
Come to find out, Tom, was in the same Navy Gunship Squadron as my best friend Mark. When I asked him about Mark's helicopter crash, that ultimately caused Mark to leave the Navy because of his severe injuries, Tom answered that he was the pilot that saw it happen and rushed to the wreckage to pull Mark and his co-pilot out to safety.
To make a long story short, Mark went on to recover from his injuries after many, many, months of rehab. Having watched all the orthopedic doctors work on him and basically put him back together, he decided he could do that as well or better than they did. So, with his Navy helicopter career behind him, Mark had the Navy put him through medical school and he went on to become the chief Orthopedic Surgeon at a major hospital in Miami.
It is one small world!!!
The pictures are of Tom and his boat "Seawolf 37", which was the helicopter call sign he used in Vietnam some 45 years ago.
While stopped at Delaware City Marina we attended a small briefing from one of the marina staff. They give nightly briefings on the particulars of leaving Delaware City and proceeding down the Delaware River and the Delaware Bay towards Cape May, NJ. The emphasis is on the tides, currents, and wind and whether the next day was an "acceptable" day to make the 61 mile journey. If any of those three components are too strong or running in opposite directions, the Delaware Bay can turn into a nasty place, very quickly.
Before the briefing the 8 to 10 people attending were making small talk as "Loopers" have a tendency to do. One of them mentioned he had been a Navy Helicopter Pilot in a past life. Of course now all the questions started about what did you fly? Where were you in Vietnam? When were you there? Who did you know? etc., etc., etc.
Come to find out, Tom, was in the same Navy Gunship Squadron as my best friend Mark. When I asked him about Mark's helicopter crash, that ultimately caused Mark to leave the Navy because of his severe injuries, Tom answered that he was the pilot that saw it happen and rushed to the wreckage to pull Mark and his co-pilot out to safety.
To make a long story short, Mark went on to recover from his injuries after many, many, months of rehab. Having watched all the orthopedic doctors work on him and basically put him back together, he decided he could do that as well or better than they did. So, with his Navy helicopter career behind him, Mark had the Navy put him through medical school and he went on to become the chief Orthopedic Surgeon at a major hospital in Miami.
It is one small world!!!
The pictures are of Tom and his boat "Seawolf 37", which was the helicopter call sign he used in Vietnam some 45 years ago.
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