[Public-List] Back stay

[Gordon Laco]

Hi Rod - how's your Perseverance wintering?

G



On 31/01/13 12:53 PM, "Rod Symmes" <weatherhelm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Who new what evil lurked behind that friendly smile ???   Live and learn. I
> may have to think twice before accepting another invite to crew on SURPRISE.
> Glad, now, that I was wearing my Mustang.
> 
> Cheers,   Rod
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>> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:53:01 -0500
>> From: mainstay at csolve.net
>> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Back stay
>> 
>> Well here's another;  I may have already told this one....
>> 
>> Back in the wooden boat days, the same fellow and I decided one weekend to
>> sail from Toronto to Niagara, about a 30 odd mile crossing.  We set off in a
>> spanking breeze, only to discover that once well out into 'the void', we
>> discovered the boat was leaking.   We took turns at the pump and found we
>> could keep ahead of the leak but only by concentrated effort.  It was
>> exhausting.    While my crew was taking his turn pumping, I'd go down into
>> the cabin and lift the floorboards to look for the source of the water (so I
>> claimed)  what I was actually doing was adjusting the flow of water into the
>> boat through a sea cock I opened or closed in order to modulate the level of
>> anxiety my crew was experiencing.  He never noticed that the water seemed to
>> come in more slowly when it was my turn at the pump.
>> 
>> Finally the far shore of the lake hove into sight.  Our happiness was
>> hampered by a sudden increase in the rate of the leak...  Pumping was
>> accordingly increased to a near frantic rate.
>> 
>> Then, when both of us were required to hand the sails in preparation to
>> enter Gillingham's Marina in the mouth of the river, paradoxically the leak
>> stopped.  My crew by this time smelled a rat and I was exposed. He took the
>> joke well until I pointed out the health benefits of four hours hard
>> labour....
>> 
>> We're still friends.
>> 
>> Gord #426
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