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Yikes! What a small world. I have experience both with Ponce Inlet and Ft Pierce Inlets.
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Small world, indeed. RR, I hadn't even noticed where you are from. DeLand, eh? I've spent a bit of time there. I went to school at Embry Riddle which consists of a primarily male student body, so Stetson, which has a primarily female student body, attracted Riddle students like moths to a bug zapper.
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Well I'm a captain who ended up in IT... who would have imagined. LOL
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I hear you on that one. Somehow I wound up working in the theme park world, which as since landed me in the Northeast--a far cry from what I had originally intended.
...which leads me to some boating experience that I can't believe I forgot about! A few years back, I was working as in Ops supervisor at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure outside of Cleveland, and, among other things, was placed in charge of our twin 50-ton ferry boats. Over the winter, the park, in lieu of pulling the boats out of the soon to be frozen lake, had chosen to leave the boats in the water, relying on 3 or 4 little de-icing motors placed under each one.
Naturally, this strategy was slightly less than effective.
The freezing lake broke something, somewhere, and flooded the bilge of each boat with something like 50,000 gallons of water each. A couple of big pumps were able to get the great majority of water out, but there was still about 2" left that the pumps could not reach. Being as our maintenance staff was busy with other things, I'll give you one guess as to who got the enviable task of getting the last bit of water--one 5gal ShopVac full at a time--out of the boats.
