Thanks to everyone for the warm "Welcome Aboard"....
It's great to be back, (please continue to remember our other brothers and sisters in all the services that are still serving abroad).
Yes, please call me Rick, MSGT is much too stuffy :salute:
I figured I've been looking at everyone else's pictures for the last year, so I needed to post some "eye candy" as a "Thanks" for theirs...
Frank, in reference to the question you asked as stated:
"I do have one question, though. How did you get your First Mate to stand in the corner like that? I'll have to show that one to my wife .... "
Two simple rules needed here in order to get this accomplished:
1. Catch them with their makeup off.
2. Tell them that you have your camera... and your not afraid to use it.
This is where they usually run and hide on you, I never told her to stand in the corner....honest ladies!
Guard these rules closely and never let them know... or it won't work. 8)
Stuart ,
As far as the colors go: plan was, I build and she decorates. Pretty risky business proposition, as the color schemes have changed numerous times after each application. I like to think of it as, a heavy primer(s) coating prior to final selection... Tope I believe is what it is called not green as I've been told :?
I didn't mean that I had built other boats as much as I had built wooden furniture and other office and studio furniture in Hobby Shops that we have on our Air Force Bases. Corner hutches, china cabinets, etc...
I did start on a restoral project as a senior in High School back in 1982. My neighbor had a sailboat in his field that he gave to me and I started cleaning it up and restoring it but then joined the service and it was never finished. Sad but true, I believe it went up in smoke (mother had it broken up and burned)
Craig, I was stationed at Tyndall AFB in Panama City Florida for 3 years (97-00) and was selected as a non volunteer (by the Air Force) to come up to Dothan Alabama 90 miles north of where I was, and to be on Special Duty as an Active Duty Air Force Advisor to the Air National Guard. Great opportunity, been here 2 & 1/2 years on a 4 year controlled tour. Great little family town! Yes prop jocks can be sailors as well!!!
Yes I'd like to visit you there in Fort Walton Beach, I work out of the Hurlburt Field Special Operations Headquarters Building and usually come down and visit once a quarter. I have checked out the local ramps in the Ft Walton, Destin area, but would like to see the Eglin boat launch as well. I'll let you know when we plan to get it salted down... we're still fresh watering it up here in Dothan.