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Kai and I also hung a flier up in a few delta towns when we were up there.
Surprisingly, we got a response within a few days from a guy named Chris in Walnut Grove. "I live on a little harbor. The woman who owns it is like 90 something and shes going crazy. The marinas falling apart. There a boat in the harbor, just sitting there for years, sounds like what you are looking for." It took me a bit to understand Chris. He seemed like a nice guy, a lot like the other folks we met in the area, lonely, talkative, staggeringly inarticulate.
"I dont know if its a pontoon boat, but its sinking on one side. So its probably a pontoon boat, right?" I had to think through this logic a little bit. One of the reasons we are interested in a pontoon boat is that it is less likely to sink.
"This boats got stuff in it. A fridge, held up with a rope. It got coats in there, like nice ones. And other stuff." I wondered that the locals had not already stripped this abandoned boat full of nice coats.
I asked Chris if he could send me a picture of this boat. "You know, Im technology illiterate. My phones got a camera, but I dont know know how to use the goddamned thing. Technology, man, I just dont know it."
Chris went on, "To tell the truth, you dont want this boat. Its sinking on one side. But its just sitting here. And frees a good price, right? Am I right? You know, who knows? You could haul this thing out and do us a favor before it sinks."
As dubious as it sounds, well probably take a look at it next time we go up there. If it hasnt already settled to the bottom of the Sacramento River. As Chris says, who knows?
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