Sunday, August 24, 2025

The Sunday Five: Row-Row-Row Your Boat


1: What is your experience with canoes?

2: Tell us about the last time you were on a boat? 

3: What size boat would you like to have? 

4: How close do you live to water that you could boat on? 

5: Have you ever owned a boat? 

My answers: 

1: What is your experience with canoes? I have never been in one. 

2: Tell us about the last time you were on a boat? In May we took the Thames River Taxi from near the Wheel to Greenwich. 

3: What size boat would you like to have? Something small and slow, with a shallow draft that I could explore the wetlands along the river in. It has to be a power boat. Electric would be fine. 

4: How close do you live to water that you could boat on? We are about a mile as the eagle flies from the Potomac River, closer than that the Hunting Run, but there are no boats on it.  

5: Have you ever owned a boat? No, always wanted to. 

Please share your answers in the comments. 


11 comments:

  1. 1. I've had a lot of experience with douche canoes but not the actual boat kind. There was that time at Disneyland when I was a kid, but I don't think that counts.
    2. Does the Love Boat count? Princess Cruise to Hawaii and back ten years ago for our fortieth anniversary. Almost died but it was a fun trip.
    3. A big one with an international crew and staff.
    4. I really don't know. Not too far I suppose.
    5. Just my shoes. Big feet. My father (ex-Navy) called the shoes gun boats.

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    1. You get to select the crew and the uniforms,

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  2. 1: What is your experience with canoes? We owned a beauty in southern Connecticut. Loved it.
    2: Tell us about the last time you were on a boat? With you two, on the catamaran in Málaga!
    3: What size boat would you like to have? I wouldn’t
    4: How close do you live to water that you could boat on? We could canoe on the river here, but it’s almost 2 hours to the Mediterranean Sea.
    5: Have you ever owned a boat? See #1

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  3. 1. I've paddled canoes a handful of times in my life. The last time was a day canoe trip down the North Saskatchewan River about 20 years ago.
    2. The last time I was on a boat was 10 years ago when we went whale watching off Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
    3. I have no desire to have a boat.
    4. There's lots of opportunities to canoe or kayak around Edmonton, if one so desired.
    5. I've never owned a boat.

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    1. Whale Watching is a neat experience.

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  4. 1: What is your experience with canoes? I think I was in one back in Camp Arcade one summer when I was about twelve.
    2: Tell us about the last time you were on a boat? We were visiting my father in Bellingham for his 80th birthday and we went out on a boat that cruised Bellingham Bay. Nice peace ride and some beautiful sights.
    3: What size boat would you like to have? I wouldn't have a boat.
    4: How close do you live to water that you could boat on? We are about twenty minutes from Lake Wateree.
    5: Have you ever owned a boat? A plastic one for the tub.

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    1. Another wise voice that wouldn't own a boat.

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  5. 1. I used one when I was a kid. But never since.
    2. I was on a ferry crossing Lake Champlaign on my way to Vermont.
    3. One I could push around in the bathtub.
    4. We are very close to Lake Erie. Like 10 minutes.
    5. No.

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    1. A long as Lake Erie is not on fire - oh that was just the river.

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  6. 1. no experience with canoes that I can remember...
    2. I kayaked with my daughter when she lived in Neenah, Wi so probably about 5 years ago.
    3. no boats for me
    4. There is a river going through my city and Lake Michigan is about 35 miles east.
    4. no, although there is a kayak in my garage (it's my son's).

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