Rich.... oh no, no no no no.
I'm retired from all that. We even sold the Selectric III and the Underwood 25. Ideas he can have for free, use all he wants and freely put his name to anything he wants. Besides, I enjoyed being an editor and a writing coach much more than I ever did being a writer.
Tommy ... no doubt a memorable adventure. However ... Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should.* Especially in repetition.
In 1976, I went with my dad in our Marina truck (a 1975 Dodge 3/4-ton ClubCab 4x4 pickup -- they were badged as "Powerwagons" in Canada) on a trip to Montreal (about 80 miles from our Marina) to pick up a new C&C sailboat for a customer and trailer it back to our place (on a 32-mile lake in Quebec). We only had our big two-axle boat trailer with rollers, not a sailboat trailer. Dad convinced the yard manager at C&C to lower the boat, in its cradle, onto our boat trailer. Yes, it was as precarious as it sounds. But as Mike Roache often says, "If you don't have a dog, you hunt with the cat." We had about 60 miles to go on a 4-lane divided highway (the Eastern Townships Autoroute). The good news has that being in the St. Lawrence Valley, the whole route was as flat as a pool table. The only hill was the last quarter of a mile going down into our place.
But ... we had a big scary bridge to contend with -- the Jacques Cartier Bridge over the St. Lawrence Seaway. 341 ft above the river. Between the crosswind and the bridge joints making the trailer wag the truck a bit, the boat cradle shifted about halfway across the bridge and came to about a 15 degree list to one side. It was scary. Dad didn't slow down or look, he just kept going. What were we going to be able to do about it, anyway??? But if the boat decided to go to the river, it was most likely going to take us with it as it probably outweighed the truck. He told me to tell him if any else bad happened back there. Nothing did and we made it home. It was a VERY long ride to the far side of the bridge, though. Yes, we got 'er dun. But it was a VERY BAD IDEA.
