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Location: Warren,Pa. | My wife and I are going to Maine in June. We'll be getting on a 100' 1920's fishing boat that's been turned into an eco-tourist floating b&b. 6 days of whale watching, gourmet meals, R&R. Only 12 people on the trip, and the captain says musical instruments always welcome! Sounds like a great place for an Ovation to go, but we're talking out on the ocean in the salt air for 6 days. My wife says I should bring my Takamine G-230(my campfire guitar),and I know that makes sense. But this sounds like a most inspiring trip and that is a most uninspiring guitar. I would love to stupidly take my '97 Collectors,just right for an intimate setting like this. SOMEBODY STOP ME! John. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | You Only Live Once John! I say Go Ahead and Take her and Play her like she was your Mistress! :D
Have a Good Vacation! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | They'll stop and turn the boat around no matter who or what falls over. Go with your gut! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hmmm lets me see. Take an all WOOD guitar out in the Ocean air, or take the most popular guitar seen on the Beaches of Waikiki that only has some wood, and is built like a tank and sounds great.
Just make sure you bring a clean cloth that you keep in a baggy and a little sprayer of Dunlop 65. Ovation is the one I guitar I would bring on a boat. If you have an Adamas, even better. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | John
Ovation is the beach jammin guitar and has been from the 70's. San Diego's beach parties were orchestrated by round back earth movers that could be buried in the sand, shook off, put back in the case and appear again at sundown, ready for the party. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | John, I'LL STOP YOU! Leave that beautiful '97 Collectors' at home just in case you get inspired by your audience and decide to emulate Jimi Hendrix at Monterrey! With the Takamine, you haven't lost much....... :D
Seriously, I would be concerned about the electronics. The '97 Collectors' package sounds a little idiosyncratic anyway and salt air isn't going to help it any.
Roger
1976 Applause AA14-4 6-String
1978 Ovation 1617-4 Legend 6-string
1981 Ovation 1118-1 Glen Campbell 12-string
2001 Adamas 1598-MERB Melissa Etheridge 12-String
2003 Ovation 1777-NAT Legend 6-string |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | One of the reasons I bought my Collectors 97 was to take on vacations and weekends because it is smaller and is more intimate. I took it on a church elders retreat and it was perfect in that small intimate setting. As with most Ovations they are tuff, and will hold up to being taken around. I think that guitars are to be played not inherited by my kids. Also the 97 case will protect it well.
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Location: St. Petersburg, FL USA | Originally posted by Stevechapman:
You Only Live Once John! I say Go Ahead and Take her and Play her like she was your Mistress! :D
Have a Good Vacation!
Agreed!!
John, congrats on this trip. My parents took us to Maine (Mount Desert Is., Acadia National Park, etc.) many times for summer vacations back in the day... That is truly God's Country. I have been wishing to do a sailing trip just like the one you are doing. I'm trying not to get TOO jealous :) Where do you sail from?? Hope you have beautiful weather!
On one of our trips, I took along my brand new 1612 Balladeer on a 3-day "sleep on the boat" trip, played it at night on the boat, and 20 years later it is still in perfect working condition. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | JohnnyMac, check out wanderbirdcruises.com . We set sail just south of Acadia and go as far as conditions permit..perhaps Newfoundland the Captain said. We've never done this sort of thing before. Been to Acadia every other year for quite some time, but always felt that any vacation over $2000 was self-indulgent. Is this a sign of aging??? I kind of feel like my wife and I are crossing a threshold here. Anyway, think I'll take the '97 Collectors with me. John <>{ |
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Location: St. Petersburg, FL USA | Looks like just what the doctor ordered. You should have a blast! Maybe you could post some pictures after you return?
Are the popovers at the Jordan Pond House still as good as I remember them??? |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | You know, sounds to me like you ought to take YOUR '97 Collectors and go back up there sometime. Jordon Pond is just as beautiful and the popovers are to die for. |
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Location: St. Petersburg, FL USA | Yeah. Needs to be sooner than later. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I guess the Problem Is Solved Then. Another Succesful remedy From The Doctors at The OFC.
Again Go ahead and Take Your 97 Collectors. You'll have a Blast! |
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