We were pulling into the parking lot at Dog River Marina on Friday night when our headlights caught 2 boaters with the deer-in-the-headlights look. It turns out that they were Jeff Janacek and Jim Rohrman from Stillwater MN delivering Jim’s 43’Silverton to Fort Meyers for chartering. They left MN on 10-20 and are here already. We left 6 weeks earlier—does that tell you how fast they are or how slow we are?
We know Jeff from the Apostle Islands area of Lake Superior. He, his wife, Sally and their 2 teenage sons, David and Adam, did the Loop in ’06-’07. They have been our inspiration to do the Loop and we were delighted to see him and Jim. Jeff and Sally gave us so many tips for this trip and even lent us their charts and cruising books. I was a little afraid that we were overdue with these and that Jeff was here personally to pick them up.
Jeff is one of those special people who is so knowledgeable and generous with his time and talents. I can say that knowing full well that it will really embarrass the hell out of him. In his brief 24 hour visit to Dog River Marina, he went to several West Marine stores to pick up orders for fellow boaters and even personally delivered them to Fairhope. He gives a whole new meaning to West Marine Express.
I wish that I could post a picture of Jeff and Jim but these pictures are now mysteriously missing. Faithful followers of their blog, http://www.jimsbigadventure.blogspot.com/ know that they have been bedeviled by a stowaway, Westin. I was going over to their boat,”Tricia Ann”, this morning to invite them for pancakes and found that their boatline had been cut and the boat was missing. Did Westin get back on board, cut the line and take over their boat?
We know Jeff from the Apostle Islands area of Lake Superior. He, his wife, Sally and their 2 teenage sons, David and Adam, did the Loop in ’06-’07. They have been our inspiration to do the Loop and we were delighted to see him and Jim. Jeff and Sally gave us so many tips for this trip and even lent us their charts and cruising books. I was a little afraid that we were overdue with these and that Jeff was here personally to pick them up.
Jeff is one of those special people who is so knowledgeable and generous with his time and talents. I can say that knowing full well that it will really embarrass the hell out of him. In his brief 24 hour visit to Dog River Marina, he went to several West Marine stores to pick up orders for fellow boaters and even personally delivered them to Fairhope. He gives a whole new meaning to West Marine Express.
I wish that I could post a picture of Jeff and Jim but these pictures are now mysteriously missing. Faithful followers of their blog, http://www.jimsbigadventure.blogspot.com/ know that they have been bedeviled by a stowaway, Westin. I was going over to their boat,”Tricia Ann”, this morning to invite them for pancakes and found that their boatline had been cut and the boat was missing. Did Westin get back on board, cut the line and take over their boat?
