Good Morning. If it ever stops raining here I want to get back on my boat to see if it is fixed. I did a lot of work on it and can't wait to try it out. If it keeps raining I may be able to sail it on the street in front of my house.
You don't need a Captains License for a boat but I have one.
The Captains License was the hardest course I ever took and I thought I knew everything about boats, and fish. I was wrong.
That was about 15 years ago. I am still wrong
Captaining Is not just navigation, that is a very small part and no electronics are allowed. It's all with a compass, paper and pencil. (and of course whatever you can write on your arm before the test)
They give you questions like:
You are leaving buoy #6 in Chesapeake Bay at 0400 hours on a Tuesday. There is an 8 1/2 knot easterly current and the wind is out of the north at 15 knots.
A Russian trawler is 7 points off your port bow traveling at 6 knots and you can hear "In a Godda Da Vita" blasting from the Captains quarters while a 9 year old child wearing a fedora, drinking Vodka seems to be steering..
You are heading through the Bermuda Triangle while 7 US Air Force plains from the 40s circle overhead and the sound of their engines signals that they are obviously running out of fuel.
You see one crash in the distance.
Then you see something in the water ahead of you and think it's a blue whale, but it is the Nautilis nuclear submarine that sunk decades ago and it still has remnants of giant squid tentacles stuck to it's hull.
The Captain of that Iconic boat is screaming at you for help, but all you can do is offer him some cold chicken wings from last nights Superbowl game. His ship sinks back into the cold darkness as his screams go unanswered.
Now you are heading toward your goal on the southern coast of France and it is eerily quiet. Too quiet. So quiet that you can't even hear the humming bird circling around your head.
The plastic garbage in the water is gently swirling in a counter clockwise direction.
Nothing to see. You can't even see the water between the empty bottles of Perrier water and your ship seems to be floating on a mist so fine as to not even be there. Your depth gauge tells you the water is 800 feet deep and as you look over the side you can see the linoleum on the bottom as if it is right under you....... All of a sudden something red comes into view.
It gets clearer and clearer and to your horror, It's a 1968 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser with bumper guards, dual exhausts and a child's seat in the back.
What could this mean? ;Nailbiting
Just then,,,,,,,,The instructor tells the class it's time to take a break. ;Bucktooth
