On Dec 17, 11:38�am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:05:33 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Haven't been here in a while. Just �checking in. What happened to
Skipper? I read somebody's post referring to "the demise of Skipper."
What did he do, haul his Bayliner down to the coast and get run over
by a tanker?

I don't think anyone knows. �Last time he was here was not a good
thing.

IIRC, Dave sold his Bayliner. He had long spoken of plans to move to
the Pacific NW and purchase a larger boat suitable for long range
cruising, (without "auxiliary" fuel cans lashed to the gunwales). I
don't think anybody really knows if he ever moved out of Kansas or
bought a larger boat, but.......

I was buying a hot dog at the little kiosk outside of the Tacoma
branch of Home Depot earlier this year when I noticed two guys
standing a little ways from me at the counter. It's been maybe 8 or 9
years since I last saw him in person and I wouldn't claim to be able
to recognize him- but as soon as I saw those two gentlemen something
in the back of my mind said, "Hey, one of those guys is Dave
Mann....or somebody who looks just like him." The guy I thought might
have been Dave seemed to looking at me in return, as if trying to
place my face. (Probably wondering in which nightmare that scary
visage had last appeared). :-)

So it coulda been. Could also not have been. I didn't ask. If it
wasn't him
I didn't want to have an awkward conversation with a total stranger,
and if it was him I didn't want to have an awkward conversation with
Skipper.
Funny somebody brought him up here, I don't think about the guy twice
a year.