coltgov - keep going. I lost my dad a couple years ago. He was probably a contemporary of yours, spent every summer of his life on the Lake and probably had pretty similar stories ("falling off" the boat - haha). He'd been saying for the last few years that he was going to write them all down, but ....
At the end, we got a few stories on video tape, thank goodness. You keep telling your stories and I'll just pretend your my dad.