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Wahoo
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Initially Posted - 10/31/2003 : 22:48:09

Hoo's Here is getting ready to make the road trip (via flat bed boat hauler) from Arizona to Northern Virginia. Any suggestions for a decent marina in the area of Alexandria south to Prince William County with lifting capacity to get it off the truck? Also, suggestions for a new "home port" on the Potomac would be greatly appreciated.

Ron Reinsel
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on the Potomac River out of the Mount Vernon Yacht Club

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 11/01/2003 : 07:26:25

Ron: Wahoo-wah! I don't have any recommendations about northern Virginia marinas. . . if you want to know about the Rappahannock, I can help. When were you at UVa?

Brooke Willson
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Wahoo
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Response Posted - 11/01/2003 : 10:33:19

Brooke:
I was at UVa '70-'74 and the son just started as a first year this fall. Additionally, I just married a UVa classmate and am now making the voyage home (given those current events, I think that I now have to move the apostrophe to modify the boat's name to the plural: "'Hoos Here".

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Response Posted - 11/01/2003 : 23:29:25

That's great. My daughter graduated in 2001, my son will graduate next spring, and my wife graduated in '75. I was campus minister there from 88 - 93. Just got back from an acapella concert tonight . . . my son sings with "Academical Village People:" tell your son to look them up. Drew lives in 133 Tucker in Brown College (Monroe Hill to you and me) -- his window is at one of the passageways through Brown going towards the Lawn. Drew's a sailor -- tell your son to look him up. AVP is also on the web -- they're wonderful and fun musicians, and pretty well known on Grounds.

Hope you find a marina!

Brooke

AVP web site (with music) : http://www.student.virginia.edu/~acadvil/main/default.htm

Edited by - Brooke Willson on 11/02/2003 03:35:43

Wahoo
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Response Posted - 11/02/2003 : 22:28:13

Brooke
Thanks for the UVa connection, I will send it on. I see from your profile that you are a minister in Ashland, Va. By any chance do you know Paul and Linda Feeley?

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Response Posted - 11/03/2003 : 08:09:36

Sorry, no I don't. My office ios in Ashland, but I superintend sixty churches along the I-95 corridor from Quantico to Richmond. That means I get to know lots of people a little all over the area, but few people well in a particular area.

Brooke

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Response Posted - 11/03/2003 : 09:06:27

If you guys need a shoulder to cry on November 29, I will be here. GO HOKIES!! Oh yeah, and thanks for the help getting into the ACC, now we can beat up on all your friends too.

I took sailing classes with someone that lived in Alexandria, and he was planning on keeping his boat at Soloman's Island, MD. If you can't find good marina's on the Potomac, there are some great ones in the Rappahannock/Bay area. If you want some info about those, let me know because I was just shopping around for a marina for our new boat. Good luck finding a marina and welcome back to old Virginy.

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Response Posted - 11/03/2003 : 18:21:37

I'm leaving the hemisphere the week after Thanksgiving so I don't have to deal with the aftermath of what will probably be a demolition of the Wahoos.

On the other hand, whenever Tech fans razz me about UVa athletics (and there is much to razz unless you're a soccer or lacrosse fan), I ask them how many Fulbright and Rhodes Scholars Tech has produced lately, or how many Hokies are network news anchors (Katie Couric, Brit Hume. . . ), how many of them are world renowned scholars, jurists, scientists, astronauts, Pulitzer Prize winners, etc. Every now and then I have this bizarre notion that higher education is actually about scholarship. Then I drive by that monstrosity that used to be the elegantly simple Scott Stadium, or see the colossus that will be the new basketball arena, and I remember that college is really about playing ball and partying.

Go figure. . . I have a sailboat.

Brooke

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arlingva
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Response Posted - 11/06/2003 : 22:12:06

If you need marina info just e-mail me. I live in McLean and know what the waiting list look like.

Bill

Edited by - arlingva on 11/06/2003 22:12:31

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