my visit with chuck

[xort]

I was in Annapolis over the weekend and looked up ChucklesR. He invited me down to the boat Sunday afternoon.



"Welcome Aboard"!





And he even let me sail his boat!


Well, that's what it looks like. What you don't see is that my left hand is handcuffed to the wheel. His lovely wife is in the cockpit holding a spear gun to my ribs and the salesman from of Performance Catamaran has a contract in hand!
They took me out for a 'test sail'. It was 'sign for the purchase of a new Gemini or else'!!!

Just then, a water cop came by. Mrs. Chuckles jabbed the spear gun into my ribs and told my wife "one peep and he gets it". Mrs. Xort immediately jumped up on the foredeck and started screaming to the cops. She certainly knows when to call somebody's bluff, right? Right?
So chuckles quickly uncuffs me and they put away the speargun. The cops pull up to the boat and I get accused of hijacking the boat!!! Well, the cops of course believed the locals. They did get us off the boat but then took us straight to the Annapolis jail. We proved to them we had a flight back to Detroit. They figured that was punishment enough and escorted us back to our rental car with a promise of going directly to the airport.

Wow! Now I see how Annapolis became the yachting capitol of the US! And I thought the Florida brokers were bad!

So we're back in the frozen wasteland still boatless as ever.

Nice visiting with Mr & Mrs Chuckles

[chucklesR]

Man, ya'll really should leave the comedy to me.
Thanks for posting the pics. I now have pictorgraphical evidence that a monohull sailor can survive on a catamaran.

I hope I was at least able to show you that a certain 33.5 foot catamaran does indeed have at least the equal of interior living accomodations and storage space as a 42 foot made by a company out of Florida that specializes in powerboats (I'm hunting for the name of the company, but can't nail it down).

I'm sorry the broker sucked, I did not get that impression of him when I met him, but then I wasn't the one shopping for a boat my buddy was.

Good meeting you and Ms. Xort, you have a standing invitation to sail if it is warm enough.

I'd have gone sailing if you'd said the word, and gotten something to break the ice (you can just see how it circles the boat).

[sailingdog]

Xort—

Well, it's a good thing you had the speargun to ribs as an excuse...you've run the sheet onto the self-tailer incorrectly.

[chucklesR]

He's a monohuller SD, couldn't teach him anything he didn't already know
Why do you think I'm holding onto the life line so tightly?

[teshannon]

Why would you ever get on that boat. Stay with a real one, a monohull.

[sailingdog]

He was at speargun point... but for me, the boat isn't the issue, it's the captain... Given some of what chuckles has posted, he'd need a speargun to get me to crew...

Originally Posted by teshannon

Why would you ever get on that boat. Stay with a real one, a monohull.

Nah, chuckles is okay, in spite of being a former squid...

[chucklesR]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

He was at speargun point... but for me, the boat isn't the issue, it's the captain... Given some of what chuckles has posted, he'd need a speargun to get me to crew...
Nah, chuckles is okay, in spite of being a former squid...

At least I don't need training wheels.

[sailingdog]

I'm wounded... they're training hulls... damnit...

Originally Posted by chucklesR

At least I don't need training wheels.

[sailhog]

They look like a couple of run-of-the-mill male prostitutes to me. Their cocked eyebrows scream "Love for sale!"

[uspirate]

You know Hog and i are one the same path
I happen to like the Gemini, we have one in our marina at the lake and it is quite a nice setup.