Donny, sounds like you are getting a bit lazy to me. Setting up and tearing down should not be an arduous chore. If it is, you must be doing something wrong. I know you have seen the video of my rig and setting it up only took 7 minutes when I took my time. Good exercise! Now that I am fully retired, I no longer have to worry about this stuff.

Don Mason leaves his gear at the job, so his setup time is zilch. When he does have to take the gear somewhere else for that rare job outside Ernest's, he usually has someone doing the lifting for him. Don goes fishing and plays golf to offset the exercise he misses from setting up and tearing down every night. Bout time for you to get away from the PC and do the same. Good surf fishing along the Jersey shore, and golf courses are everywhere you look.

I just got home from a week of sailing, a trip of just over 300 nautical miles. My daughter's roommate went with me, mainly to keep the old man out of trouble. She spent a week getting a tan and lazing around on the foredeck of the boat, while I did the hard stuff, sailing, setting the sails, getting us to a nightly anchorage, then cooking all the meals. She really enjoyed the trip and says she's packing up for another as soon as I'm ready to go. This was Chris at her favorite location on the boat, sitting on the lounge chair reading a Jimmy Buffett book.





Good luck,

Gary