Dunk as to get wet in the water, pushed off the float, or just plain immersed is something I avoid.
No Dunking!
Lazy Bones
Bubba Gray was having a meltdown. His wife and the business manager wanted him to accept a contract to restore an old rum runner, and Bubba was saying there was no way on earth that the cursed thing was coming into his yard. Lazy Bones had famously killed its owner, his lover, and two mobsters in the thirties when it brought Canadian whiskey into Maine harbors. It had spent thirty years in a shed, and according to Bubba, it was there the damned boat remained. His wife quietly argued that he either accepted the contract or found another way to extract the yard from eminent bankruptcy.
Better With Age
The concept of being wet takes in a bit of territory. On the coast, you can be "wet from birth," meaning you grew up on the water
Fall Arrives
With September absconding with the warmth of August, I should have been back in Boston. But there I was helping the Cap'n prepare Pysche for the winter layup.
Cribbage, Lights List and Coastal Pilot
The broken cribbage board and the Coast Pilot Take me back to the days when I learned to "Hand, Reef, and Steer" aboard the 34-foot ketch Psyche.
Sloop of War
Small vessels of the Napoleonic War era below the rate of the frigate were frequently termed Sloops of War. It didn't matter if the ship was rigged as a sloop, a brig, snow, or an actual ship rig.
Chow
A lobsterman I knew back in the day was a chef on board his floating diner, his lobster boat.
Journey
You can not put a Genie back into the bottle. It's like repacking one of those tents from the big box store. First, take it out, then use it. Then, try to fit it back in the bag the way it started. Forget about it.
Generosity – a Flashback Friday presentation from July 2019
I carved this banner around when the Patrick O'Brien books like Master and Commander were popular.
Stash
I was talking to Spinney. It was a late August Sunday evening, and we watched the sun sink into the bay. A conversation about the green flash had evolved into a discussion of the Golden Age of Piracy.
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