Sailing on the Lower Potomac is not sailing on the Chesapeake. They are as different as Miller's Pond is from Lake Superior, and as unforgiving, as I proved this week. So I've offered my skills as a contractor and woodworker in trade for some lessons. Maybe even trade one of my boats.

So the boy isnt a pussy after all. (?)

There is no dishonor is ignorance. My friends and family are worried that I'm not skilled enough to handle 4' waves in a 30 knot wind. I's a natural progression. I've done the pond, I've done the lake, I've done the river, now I have to conquer the bay before I can tackle the ocean.

Not suggesting that. I'm asking if the boy knows he is not a pussy. It's important... to him.  ( no..not suggesting you dont know this...I wasent there so i dont know how you acted..crap even that sounds bad..but yeah.)

That has nothing to do with it. No one suggested that he was a pussy except perhaps me, and only here. He was concerned with the wind and the seas so we motored. We hugged the shore too deep into Curtis Bay and got blown into the shoals when we turned hard abeam to clear the point. None of that was his fault. I already accepted responsibility.

and only here.

Thats all I needed to know. Untill I knew that..it did have something to do with it. I may not know you as a father...but I am a son.

Come on, give me a little credit. There's also a world of difference between a 5M training dink and a 8M Winnebago in a hull, especially when a fourth of the deck hardware is missing (no jib cars or blocks, no winch handle; yeah these were details I left out to mask my stupidity and insanity). And he's only been sailing with me in the 5M which is much faster and more responsive.

This thread went completely over my head.

Are you saying you're trying to practice up to sail on more difficult waters?  Or something else?

Nah, that's what he's saying.

You get the credit now because I'm still getting to know you. I havent been lurking for the last 8 years, I really was not here.  (but to give you something, I would of been seriously supprised to read you needed to talk with him, hat in hand.)

Are you saying you're trying to practice up to sail on more difficult waters?  Or something else?

Nah, that's what he's saying.

Yes and I'm done now...so we can start making fun on him now.

Bring it.

This thread went completely over my head.

Are you saying you're trying to practice up to sail on more difficult waters?  Or something else?

I have bigger boats now Chad. I finally broke 30 feet if I can get the money together (and I will) and I have moved up from the calm waters of the Potomac to the unpredictability of the Chesapeake. So Im going to get some instruction. No big deal.

This is how these things go.  You get as good as you can on your own, and then you get a trainer to get to the next plateau.  Same with anything else.

Lets not make fun on Zoomie, lets help him learn about the open ocean.

Oh the LULZ.

Jack Sparrow looks pretty damn close to Antigua. I'll have to watch out.

I have a boat that can get me to Antigua next Winter. I need the skills to get there. And then maybe putter around the Gulf Of Mexico after.

You might wanna check out Sint Maarten too. Hell, you might wanna move to Sint Maarten.

I'll wait until I have something big enough to gypsy charters before I look at places I won't want to leave, y'know?

i want a fuckin' boat.

i just thought about being a pirate. its been a dream of mine.
i dont want to know how to navigate it. i just want to be in charge of everybody.
and i want a sword. no eye patch, nothing too over the top.

Sounds like Somalia is the place for you...

If you pick me up in Corpus Christi I will sail with you.  I'm an excellent swimmer and I have seen Blue Lagoon and Cast Away, just in case things don't go as planned.

Cool, she'll fuck you afterall ...

I honestly didn't see this coming ...

I would fuck someone young like Satori, not someone old enough to be my dad like Zoomie.

Right back at you, Sash-O. You're like a trout. A lot of work and posturing to catch and when it comes down to the meat, too bony.

Right back at you, Sash-O. You're like a trout. A lot of work and posturing to catch and when it comes down to the meat, too bony and you don't know where it's been.

O_o

Muchos gracias mi Kiwi hermano...

If you two were deserted on an island for years, yer fuckin' ...

Or at least she's stuffed your head with sawgrass and is calling it Wilson.

I suspect the latter...