[Leica] From the Wayback Machine, Mike and Quark

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Hi Larry,

Is your Volvo a real Volvo 4-cyl, or is it one of those that look like a GMC 
but have a Volvo nameplate?  If it is the former, I have a local Volvo 
salvage yard close by which might supply parts.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
To: "Leica LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] From the Wayback Machine, Mike and Quark


> Thanks to everyone who commented on the photo of my son on the sailboat. 
> The
> boat is indeed a twin keel Westerly Nomad, probably the oldest in the USA.
> The boat's name, Quark, has nothing to do with the subatomic particles but
> because we bought it from an Irishman named Finnigan in 1965. English 
> majors
> will immediately recognize the derivation of the name. My wife and I 
> sailed
> it up and down the Atlantic coast from Maine to Key West over a 30 year
> period. Our kids learned to walk on the boat, the boat's rolling from side
> to side aiding their first steps. When I retired in 1995 we bought a much
> bigger boat and retired Quark to a spot next to our garage. Last year we
> gave up the bigger boat because maintenance chores proved too much for 
> aging
> sailors. I'm now trying to refurbish Quark for this summer. The main 
> problem
> is trying to get the Volvo inboard engine to run after its long layoff. 
> I'm
> also sorry about the big size of the large picture file. I never realized
> how big a 9 MB file from a 6x9 cm negative would be on the LUG. Look at it
> small.
> Larry Z
> - - - - - -
>
>>From the Wayback Machine. This photo of my son crewing our sail boat was
>
> taken in 1970 with a Kodak Medalist camera. The Kodak Medalist, sporting 
> the
>
> best lens that Kodak ever made, was a three pound WW2 era combat camera,
>
> euphemistically called a miniature, that took 6x9 cm. pictures. Its major
>
> fault was that it used long discontinued 620 film. The picture was taken 
> in
>
> the late afternoon in fading sunlight on Kodacolor print film. My son has
>
> since grown, served as an officer in the Navy, married and has two 
> children
>
> of his own. I still have the boat and the camera.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Quark+and+Mike+1.jpg.html
>
>
> Larry Z
>
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