We are headed for Chattanooga
- ris
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We are headed for Chattanooga
We are currently in Pickwick Lake, headed up the Tennessee River to Chattanooga Tn. If anyone lives in this area and wants to meet up, just pm us on this board. We have met several nice Mac owners on this trip.
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Re: We are headed for Chattanooga
I won't be in the area to meet up with you, but I was born in Chattanooga, and my dad was born in South Pittsburg just down river from Chattanooga. As you transit Nikajack Lake, how about lifting a toast of whatever you drinking (coffee, soda, water...) and toast my dad, Herschel Hughes, Sn., he lived almost his whole life in Marian County Tennessee (Jasper, South Pittsburg) from the family farm alongside the river to his home in the suburbs. He was a dentist in that area for over 40 years (minus Korea).ris wrote:We are currently in Pickwick Lake, headed up the Tennessee River to Chattanooga Tn. If anyone lives in this area and wants to meet up, just pm us on this board. We have met several nice Mac owners on this trip.
He has passed on, now, but here is a picture at his 90th birthday when we gave him a flag flown over the U.S. Capital building in his honor. I never had an opportunity to take him sailing on my Mac, but he did see it when I hauled it home to Orlando from Detroit when I bought it.

thanks, in advance.
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Re: We are headed for Chattanooga
How was Chattanooga? I have wanted to do that bit of the Tennessee River form many years.ris wrote:We are currently in Pickwick Lake, headed up the Tennessee River to Chattanooga Tn. If anyone lives in this area and wants to meet up, just pm us on this board. We have met several nice Mac owners on this trip.
