Let's face it, those guys get the best numbers in the show, besides "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," "Fugue for Tinhorns" and the title song.
Lighthouse Boat Tour (Saturday) Did you know that besides being a beacon of liberty, the Statue of Liberty also provided a beacon of light in her early days as a lighthouse operated by the United States Lighthouse Service?
The crew of the boat consisted, he thought, of two firemen, two sailors and two stewards, besides himself.
"If you break a boat or a wing, you can replace it without using up your allotment," Coutts said, adding: "The biggest loss besides cost is development time on the water.
The answer, she said, is that the biggest danger in ocean rowing besides hurricanes is coming too close to shore, where the current can overwhelm the rower and push the boat into the rocks.
Gazing at the becalmed inlet, I think about the other catastrophic history, besides Typhoid Mary, for which North Brother Island is noted: it was here that the burning excursion boat General Slocum was beached.
While the lazy boat down the forest-lined river was the highlight, we did manage to fit in a lot more besides - a day riding horses across the plains and a night watching Harry catch baby alligators.
They just slid under the forgiving plastic hull, giving me another reason besides flashlights, bug stuff and periodic inns and pizza to be glad that I wasn't, in fact, an Iroquois trapper in a birch-bark boat.
