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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Feb 16, 2006
Description: Just me and my mom and my Maule went south for some lunch on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.

Date Taken: Feb 16, 2006
Place Taken: Lake Okeechobee, FL
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Dave Lima - Feb 17,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Dan, I understand lake Okeechobee is a very big lake, is the fishing as good as people claim? Very nice plane! I bet you sure notice the fuel burn difference.     
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 17,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    It is a big lake, Dave, but I doubt if the fishing is very good. There were fishermen everywhere. I'm guessing there can't be many fish left. I'm starting to like the Maule more every time I fly it. It burns about 8 gph at 105 mph, or 3 gph more than the SeaRey. Its fuel is 100LL at about $3.50 per gallon. Of course if you want to go 130 mph you have to pay for 15 gph. Not that bad, really.     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 17,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Aw, shucks, Dan. You can go 120 mph in a 914 SeaRey and only burn 9 gph at about $2.50 per. And you can sit side by side and fly with the canopies open. So there. (I'm not saying how long you can do that, though.)     
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 17,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Actually, Don, I can fly with the windows open in the Maule below 120 mph. Somehow it's just not the same experience as the SeaRey.     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 17,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    How low and slow will that Maule go, Dan? <br /><br />One of my favorite quotations is (approximately) 'If you like to fly, why would you want to get there any quicker?' Heard some guy called Nick say it once. Or Nicky, or something like that. I've been quoting him all over the eastern half of the United States and Canada ever since.     
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 17,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Not nearly low and slow enough, Don. She doesn't like to fly much slower than about 65 mph on an extended basis. As for low, how low can you really get on those stilts anyway? The only time I like to fly high and fast is when I'm getting back to my SeaRey!     
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 18,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Be wary of such simplistic quotations, Don. Consider their simplistic source. Someday someone will have a ready response. “Why go fast when you’re having fun? Well, because you’re having fun going fast!”<br /><br />That is the dilemma I have. I like to go fast. I like to go slow. I just do not like to be stuck on land. That’s why I need more than one airplane.<br /><br />I do like the simply slow SeaRey a lot more than the mule-like Maule. It shows in the relative number of hours flown. The SeaRey wins by a factor of five.<br /><br />The trip to Okeechobee was the perfect example of why. Flown in the SeaRey you can count the alligators and birds as they slowly parade by. You can get down close and personal, even splashing in the water with them. You are part of their world.<br /><br />In the Maule they flow past in a blur. You can see the white pelican, but the fish in its beak goes unseen. You can see the pine trees, but you can’t smell their sharp scent. You can see the old boat sunk out on the shallows, but you can’t just drop in and touch it.<br /><br />I do like the Maule, however, when I want to show off far away places to friends with short schedules. While the SeaRey would take a day to go to Okeechobee and back, in the Maule it is only a couple of hours. I can whisk them down to the Big Water and splash down for a visit, getting back to the airport to meet their flight home. It compresses a sense of the SeaRey into a schedule friendly frame.<br /><br />Of course, the Maule is not nearly fast enough. I need a Centurion to get down to Key West for lunch and back. I would like a Citation to go north and see some snow for a day. I would like an Atlas to visit the moon for just one night. The Starship Enterprise would be just perfect for a day trip to Alpha Centauri.<br /><br />And quick visits are just one reason for going fast. How can one explain the exuberance felt barrel rolling across the sky in a lightening fast jet fighter? Tail on fire streaking into the ether….I get shivers just thinking about it.<br /><br />That’s what I keep trying to explain to Ann. Unfortunately, she is a pragmatist. “Call me when you win the lottery,” is her usual reply.<br />     
  
John Robert Dunlop - Feb 18,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Hey Dan, really enjoyed your Maule visit to Darrell's pontoon boat with your Mom. Got some nice video! The Gator lunch with you was an outstanding outing! Just loved the Grouper! <br />Got some jerky footage but also a great shot of the bottom of your SeaRey. When I find some editing software I'll get some of it posted.. Thank's to you, Garry, Jon, Steve, Bob, Darrell &amp; Linda and a few others we bumped into, Ellen and I had a simply great mini vacation.<br /><br />On the idea of going fast in jet planes I must say that Mach 2 in a Starfighter at 30,000 feet is mundane compared to 540 kts at 200'.. Speed just doesn't seem interesting unless your close to something that isn't going fast!<br /> But then 100 feet in loose trail with a couple of SeaReys along the coast between Jacksonville and Savannah or skirting the islands of Georgian Bay (etc.)is exciting, fun and educational. Perhaps it's my Altzheimers but I think I'll choose the SeaRey!     
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 18,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Oh, lord...how much is it going to cost to get the footage of my scraped and scared bottom erased? There go the savings for the Citation!     
  
John Robert Dunlop - Feb 18,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Huh, what scraped bottom? I thought you had it covered with that boat shield stuff! Now I'm just going to have to view that video again..<br />Forgot to mention that Kerry saw me with the video camera and thoroughly beat up the pontoon boat with his wide eyed passenger looking on from the right seat!     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 18,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Me, I'd love to fly in the Red Bull races--but the SeaRey Dream is attainable. And as John said, few experiences are better than those low trips in trail along the coast and Georgian Bay.     
  
Steve Gromak - Feb 20,2006   Viewers  | Reply
    Don, I just love those Red Bull racers too, real hot rods ! The Searey feels like that when I'm skirting around the Saginaw Bay at tree top level over the marshes on the edge of the bay. It feels fast, but the Searey really gives you a lot of time to check out the deer, wild turkey's, ducks......     


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