Speaking and writing in French?
Hi David, excuse my poor English writing, I'm a French Quebecer who living close to Trois-Rivieres, in Champlain, Quebec, Canada. It's between Montreal and Quebec City. And I'm living close to the St-Lawrence River. So you can understand that I love boats of every size!!!
If you are able to write in French, you can see that I'm not very good in English writing, answer me in private and tell me if I can write to you in French.
I have a tiny trawler like yours. It's a small artisanal one: it's an old safety boat, 1945!!!, who is coming from a big boat, the "Ridelo". That boat finished its days at Marine Industries, Sorel, Quebec, Canada in 1961. My safety boat got 2 points and have 7 ft 2 in in the middle. I have an inside motor, a Volvo Penta AQ130C 1969 who can give me 130hp! Very fast for a small trawler. But on the St-Lawrence River, you meet very big ocean boats, so sometime you have to be get out from the front of them very fast! The first owner buy it from Marine Industries and he transformed it into a trawler.
I really appreciate your post and I'm like you for the unpleasant part for the Sanitation: I have the same porta potti like you...! But except, mine is in a very small place (1 ft X 2 ft) but with a door... By chance! But my wife is like yours: she's refuse to consider the porta potti so she doesn't go with me overnight.
I have full of questions for you and because your name is David J. Marchand, I hope you know and remember French writing. Because I have to find in my small mini-dictionary English-French the good words to tell exactly what I means... But I'm sure that my words and my verb tense are not good enough... Excuse me! And excuse me to all of you who reading my post with my poor English writing... I'm better in reading!!!
Hope to see a couple of you in the next summer. I plan to go to Montreal, next summer, if the temperature, wind and all the other (my wife who will use the porta potti...?! But I'm not very sure of that!!!).
Don't forget that I'm not better in English speaking but I can be understood!