The Captain ordered groceries for the boat this morning and at about 1700 hours an aluminum skiff from S&S Boat Store out of Burlington Iowa, tied up alongside the Theresa Wood and delivered food.
S&S Boat Store is one of the Captain's favorite boat store. He said once there was a deckhand that flew into Burlington to catch the boat, but he got there five hours before the boat did.The deckhand was just starting out and had a wife at home. Tom and Becky from the boat store took him in and fed him a meal before the boat arrived.
"They probably don't remember," said Captain Rusty Joyner, "but I'll never forget it."
The pilot, Tim Richards, has a favorite boat store too, the River View Boat Store out of Bellview, Iowa, owned by a man named Jeremy. Richards said one time he got off the boat there, but the company he worked for didn't have a contract with a taxi service to get him to the airport. So Jeremy called up his dad, who drove Richards to the airport.