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Fellas...and fellowettes. I will be coming home to SC in Mid April for my annual eastern US turkey hunting, ramp digging, morel hunting, and fish getting trip. I usually take two to three weeks to drive home and do this, and my main stop is in Camden, SC. Over the years, I have spent time with my dad, who is a healthy 86 this year, trying to get him his first turkey. We were successful in that endeavor last year, and seeing how he loves fishing way more than turkey hunting, I think that was his first and last turkey.
The most important part of the trip is spending quality time with him, and we try to spend some of that time outdoors doing what we loved to do most all our lives...hunting and fishing. We are blessed with several ponds we can go and walk around and fish, but walking on uneven ground is increasingly more difficult for him. We are blessed with access to a great 80 acre lake that we've fished all my life, but living in and coming from Wyoming, I no longer have a boat to use in that Lake. Dad, no longer being comfortable going out in a boat by himself, sold his only pond boat years ago. So....because Dad would be much more comfortable and stable sitting in a boat...
I'm looking for someone in and around the Camden area who has a 14' ish John boat or other type of boat that is trailerable preferably with seats and an electric motor that will let me borrow/rent the use of the boat for a couple/few days sometime during the last two weeks of April. Not trying to be picky, but think 86 year old in a boat for 5 hours...that's the kind of craft we need.
I have ample means to buy such a boat or to replace whatever someone lets me use if something strange happens and the boat or motor gets damaged somehow; I just don't want to spend money buying a boat to leave for dad to have to store/maintain in his limited space for the one or two days a year we might get the chance to use it.
I'll be driving to Camden from Long Creek, SC, and will be spending at least one night in Chapin with a good friend, so anyone that's willing in the Colombia/Chapin area...that would work too.
I hate asking to use anyone's stuff...its actually a self-imposed rule that I don't ask these types of things, and I don't usually let others borrow big items of mine...not because I don't want to help someone out, but rather I don't want someone to borrow something of mine and have it break on them and have them on the hook for a repair or replacement when maybe it broke because it was just time for it to break.
That said, I don't have much of a choice here, and if something were to go wrong, I'm willing to replace no questions asked.
I appreciate the consideration. PM me if you can help me out. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Highstrung
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