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To: SmoothSail who wrote (185192)	10/22/2009 12:33:14 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) of 225578

LOL That is such a good story. How different your life would have been if your Dad and the Life guy hadn't procrastinated? My Dad was a barterer and trader. He'd come home and tell us what he got that day in a trade. Usually it was little stuff like table saws or a set of golf clubs........even though he didn't really like golf all that much. We lived on Lake Washington at the time, he'd traded an apt complex for an old run down house on the lake, but that's another story. One day a yacht pulled up to the dock out front.........really nice. teak everywhere, gleaming white with new paint on the hull. Just a marvelous boat. We were really surprised and perplexed..........who in the heck would be tying up to our dock, in a yacht no less. It was Dad! He traded something........to this day I do not know what.....for the boat. It turns out it had originally belonged to the "It Girl" Clara Bow, and it was just beautiful. Full of Chinese lacquered furniture with luxurious state rooms and a revamped modern galley and sparkling teak decks. Her name was "Frances" and in reality she wasn't good for any waters but a lake or the Puget Sound. She had a hull like a bathtub and rolled horribly. How they got her up to Seattle from LA without rolling over is beyond me. But your story about the Chinese Theater made me giggle because I was 16 when Dad brought the Francis home and I remember one trip in particular. We had out of town guests and took them for out for a day of sailing on the lake, through the locks to Elliot Bay. We were cruising the harbor and my girlfriend and I were lounging on the forward deck in our bikinis with our noses stuck in the air pretending we were movie stars. LOL I've recently made contact with a representative at the Puget Sound Sound Maritime Historical Society in Seattle that says he has all sorts of information on the Frances. I just have to get off my butt and go see him.

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