Banana Wind's Blog (7)

Been a long LONG time since we dropped on to our page here at Seaknots ....but I CAN say that our boat is back together with mast, new stanchions, new bottom job, & other various needed replacements and is nearly ready to sail the waters here once more! It only took 8 LONG years eh? who knows....maybe we will provide some more updates here soon...

Banana Wind still LIVES! We have her on the hard finally YEARS after IKE messed us up and are almost finished with repairs and then on to the Bottom paint. Been a LONG time since we checked in out here on Seaknots...glad to see so many are still active! Fair Winds to ALL!!

Teacher: "Whoever answers the questions I ask, first and correctly can leave early today."

Little Johnny says to himself "Good, I want to get outta here. I'm smart and will answer the question."

Teacher: "Who said 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Susie says, "Abraham Lincoln."

Teacher: "That's right Susie, you can go home."

Johnny is mad that Susie answered the question first.

Teacher: "Who said 'I Have a Dream'?"

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Well folks ...I know it's been quite awhile since I decided to post anything, much less some new pictures (plenty to see below). To tell you the truth ...I kinda lost my spirit for posting much of anything online. You see, we've been getting hit pretty hard pretty often over the past 5 years. I now know what it must have felt like for the folks living over in Florida back a few years when there seemed to be no end to mother nature's fury on… Continue

Burial at sea



Chrisy and Barbie, two blonde sisters had promised their uncle, who had been a seafaring gentleman all his life, to bury him at sea when he died.



Of course, in due time, he did pass away and the two blondes kept their promise. They set off from Clearwater Beach with their uncle all stitched up in a burial bag and loaded onto their rowboat.



After a while Chrisy says, 'Do you think we're out far enough, Barbie?' Barbie slipped over the… Continue

One of the coolest things I think our yacht club has ever done is to have started an anual Treasure Hunt on Lake Sabine & this year marks the 2nd annual outing and is in my opinion the best so far. I know there are those that think that number 2 and beyond of anything never seem to garner the same response as number 1, but let me tell ya...this years Pirate & Treasure Hunt was the bomb! We had more members than you can shake a stick at ..and more boats out on the water for this… Continue

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain were flying to a debate.



Barack looked at Hillary, Chuckled and said, 'You know I could throw a $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy.'



Hillary shrugged her shoulders and replied, 'I could throw ten $100 bills out of the window and make ten people very happy.'



John added, 'That being the case, I could throw one hundred $10 bills out of the window and make a… Continue