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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 16, 2019
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Amidst the wailing of the women and the gnashing of teeth of the trepid flyers of land-planes, the dauntless son of Ander the Viking and the nescient scion of the Border Reivers boarded boats manned by the Volunteers and were ferried across the Guiness-dark waters of the Lagoon to their sturdy SeaReys, long-anchored and impatiently awaiting the coming Flight to the North Country.
Alas, the gods of the Wind and Weather had become offended by the incessant delays brought about by the Volunteers, who had seemed loathe to spring into action until finally the Son of Ander waxed wroth with them and at last they applied their skills to the Mercurys and delivered the two Adventurers to their Flying Boats, then towed them from the safety of the Lagoon out into the ever-treacherous Lake Winnebago for their departure toward the North.
Wait a minute here. If you're a landplane pilot reading this, my advice to you is to stop. right. now. and go get yourself a seaplane rating. Then build a SeaRey and learn to fly it. Otherwise you're probably going to turn as pale as the chill fog upon the warm waters.
And if you're already a SeaRey pilot, please keep in mind that it IS a flying boat--that is, a boat that can fly--and not merely an airplane that can float. Otherwise, this story might give you the willies.
All right? Now let's get back to the story--but a simple, modern telling of it from here on.
The son of Ander the Viking lives in Michigan's U.P. and has the rep of being fearless and intrepid--and successful--when it comes to feeling his way along lake shores and rivers in weather that would ground everyone else. We checked the weather and figured we had a two hour window to get out of the seaplane base and north of Green Bay. After that, the forecast was for clear skies to the north and the proverbial pea soup for OSH and points south. We made ready.
Unfortunately, the volunteers at the seaplane base were busy or were not paying attention, or something like that, and we didn't get boated out to our airplanes until the two hours was just about up. We took off and headed east across Lake Winnebago, figuring that we'd see what we could see and if we couldn't see enough, we'd either come back or land and wait it out. There was almost no wind, so we knew the lakes would be smooth enough to alight upon.
John Dunlop has already posted a photo of the volunteers towing our airplanes out of the seaplane base lagoon. (Page 38, 'Two-to-Go.')
THIS photo is of Rolf's SeaRey approaching the east shore of Lake Winnebago.
As you see, the visibility wasn't all that great. There were low clouds and plenty of gook in the air.
Date Taken:
Aug 17, 2004
Place Taken:
Wisconsin
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Sep 16,2019
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NOTE: This is the first of 9 posts of The Saga of the Viking and the Lake--about flying Searey amphibious flying boat seaplanes northward from the Oshkosh Seaplane Base. In good flying weather it would have been an easy ride to the top of Lake Michigan, where I would turn east toward Beaver Island and Rolf the Viking would continue north and east into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
But the weather was not good, and the trip became something of a sea-saga.
The saga became scrambled during Splash and Dash's "Great Migration" from the old MyFamily site--the "Previous" and "Next" links don't work properly now, and most that work at all are out of order.
So this is a table of contents, with the links in chronological order:
1 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVW0000 (this one)
2 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVV0000
3 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVU0000
4 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVT0000
5 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVR0000
6 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVQ0000
7 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVP0000
8 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVO0000
9 http://searey.us/splash/?Photos&p=SZYVN0000
Each link opens in a new page, so you can switch back here to click on the other links.
Also, some of the posts are attributed to Hal Brown, an old friend of mine. Nobody seems to know why, but it was another glitch in the Great Migration.
Seeing a recent photo of the Viking's Searey got me thinking about this story again. It's 15 years old now, but it still amuses me, and I hope you enjoy it if you come along for the ride.
Don Maxwell
2019-09-16
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