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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 12:58pm
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I just found out a site listing for my Saturday games was erroneous. As it turns out, to get where we're going, my partner and I have an hour drive, plus a 20-minute (three mile) ferry ride to the island school. (There are three island high schools in Maine.) The school has my tickets waiting on the mainland.

This is a first for me, and I grew up in a little fishing village not far from these islands. Anyone else of shoreline locales get to do this?
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:07pm
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I just found out a site listing for my Saturday games was erroneous. As it turns out, to get where we're going, my partner and I have an hour drive, plus a 20-minute (three mile) ferry ride to the island school. (There are three island high schools in Maine.) The school has my tickets waiting on the mainland.

This is a first for me, and I grew up in a little fishing village not far from these islands. Anyone else of shoreline locales get to do this?
The guy you gotta get with is ShishmarefRef, formerly a regular contributor on this forum, though absent this year. He did games for the schools in the Bering Strait School District which meant flying to all the games outside his community. Google that school district and you'll find it interesting all the places he had to go. His uncle, I think it was, was the famous Herbie Nayukpuk ("The Shishmaref Cannonball"), veteran Iditarod musher from a generation ago.
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:10pm
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I just found out a site listing for my Saturday games was erroneous. As it turns out, to get where we're going, my partner and I have an hour drive, plus a 20-minute (three mile) ferry ride to the island school. (There are three island high schools in Maine.) The school has my tickets waiting on the mainland.

This is a first for me, and I grew up in a little fishing village not far from these islands. Anyone else of shoreline locales get to do this?
Yes,
Here in Southeast Alaska its one of our main modes of transportation. The teams are transported by ferry or jet or jet boat or small plane in some cases! Some officials travel right with the teams, makes it real cozy for some of the "unstable" coaches.
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:10pm
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The Referee was a mighty vet-ter-an,
The Umpire brave and sure.
Four passengers set sail that day
For a three mile tour, a three mile tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ferry tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The refs would be lost, the refs would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With bainsey
His Umpire too,
Their Fox 40s and their stripes,
The table crew,
CHSeagle and his Missus,
Here on bainsey's Isle.
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:11pm
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Anyone else of shoreline locales get to do this?
I have been trying to get a game on Martha's Vineyard for the last couple of years...but have only had the team on the road, not at home. I work with guys that get assignments on Block Island, R.I.

Those are long days....and if you miss the last boat back, you are stuck on the island overnight (although I hear they have been known to hold the ferry if the game goes into overtime.)
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Bravo, Juggling!
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 02:05pm
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

...

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With bainsey
His Umpire too,
Their Fox 40s and their stripes,
The table crew,
CHSeagle and his Missus,
Here on bainsey's Isle.
Robert Service would be more fitting.
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 02:29pm
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 03:03pm
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Nicely Done JugglingReferee!
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 04:46pm
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Encore!
Juggler - the Eagle and spouse have a heck of a drive first, wow!
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 04:51pm
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LMAO...that's GREAT Juggling!
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 05:13pm
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip...
And I thought I had "T-T-T-Too Much Time on My Hands" at work!
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 05:23pm
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Have fun. While you're on the ferry, keep an eye out for a blarge.
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Old Wed Dec 14, 2011, 06:52pm
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To get where we're going, my partner and I have an hour drive, plus a 20-minute (three mile) ferry ride to the island school.
At least you can get there. For most places in New England the story is, "You can't get there from here".

Also. Well done JugglingReferee.
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Vinalhaven? North Haven? Or Islesboro?
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