A Sailing Story Thread - Feel Free to Add

[webejammin]

And then he ran across a catamaran on the beach with holes in it, it was Mr B and his sleepy wife crying about the big holes in there 03 Gemini catamarn and got a ride from there rescue boat to a safe harbor Broughton Island Boat Wreck Nov 2011 088.avi - YouTube sence the waves were so big the rescue boat didn't make it far.

[atoll]

well don's comment was **** happens,when i first had "lolaire" i managed to wreck it and have it declared as a total loss,got paid out by the insurance company,then went back and salvaged her and did a rebuild,been sailing her for nearly 30 years since then......
and wrote most of the cruising guides for the carribean in the 80's and 90's,still manage to run aground every now an again......**** happens.......jack iron any body......

[Geoduck]

After reading all this malarkey, he gave the boat away, flew home on a jet, took off hiking into the woods with a canoe paddle over one shoulder and when he was asked what was that funny looking stick he carrying, he built his cabin and lived happily ever after.....?

[SvLetitgo]

When he finally woke up from this bad dream, he grab the wheel and avoided a shoal.

He was smiling the wind was fresh and life was good. Where will he go next..

[Geoduck]

Farther into the deep woods to get away from computors and crazy sailors like me......

[atoll]

as he approached a clearing of long grass he happened on a tribe of pygmies,who when questioned remarked they we're "The ****awe tribe" as they lept into the air.......

[boatman61]

And well may you ask "Why are they called The WheretheF*^kareWe Tribe.."
It's because the land they live in has grass 4ft high... being only 3ft the only way you know they are around is when a head pops up every now and then screaming their famous chant.....
He was promptly adopted as the All Seeing Divine Being and showered with all he desired...

[sailorboy1]

..........and clicked their heels together and said "Repeat after us there's no place like home, there's no place like home".


And he did and next thing he knew he was in a marina in Maryland and a yatch broker was saying "you're the 1 million customer this year and get a 25% rebate from me on any boat you buy, just chose the one you want"*. So he looked around and .................

* now you really know this is all made up

[boatman61]

the Captain of the ship said... "Hey Jim.... Spin us a yarn...!'
and the yarn began like this....
@It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain of the ship said....

[atoll]

"so ya wanna crew on the good ship venus......did ya bring any stockings....."

[avb3]

And as the first mate contemplates the meaning of the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, as she looks at the same star patterns the ancients did,

[hummingway]

she thinks, "It's time to search out that Southern Cross I've heard so much about before it snows!"

Since the Captain was snoring down below she consulted the charts and set a course for warmer parts. With the sails set, a stiff breeze across the beam and a gentle sea she thought, "What could possibly go wrong?"

[atoll]

lulled into a false sense of security,ipod plugged in she never saw or heard the big black squall racing towards the goose winged vessel.....

[Celestialsailor]

Wait!!!...where did she come from? Where did the boat come from?

[boasun]

She was a stow away on the boat... and had been force into being the Galley slave until some knockout drops somehow ended up in the captain's coffee. Thus she assumed command of the sailboat