If Russell’s ok with it...he once posted a beautiful pic here of Jzerro against some incredible sand dunes/cliffs- in Australia, maybe? I can’t recall where it was - but I saved the pic as a reminder that I want a weird, very cool boat like that one day - which probably won’t happen (but who knows). And secondly that I want to go to that place and anchor there!Just look him up.
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I love that he's got his PFD on and she doesn't!I've posted this before but think of the incident every spring working in the boatyard. There are always new owners with shiny new boats and little experience. For that reason, I keep the camera on deck as I work.
This couple came into the docks off the public landing very slowly. She was standing on the foredeck-bench with the bow line, ready to leap onto the dock.
He was operating his brand new toy with extreme caution, motoring in slowly. That turned out to be too much caution as he goosed the throttle two yards short of the dock.
She went ass over teakettle into the (wait for it),...Goose River.
This was a tight lipped NE couple. She made her shameful/wade past other boaters all the way to the ramp to clamber up on the dock, and then completed her loop in a fast - dripping stroll back down the docks to her husband, who was now tied up on the dock.
I couldn't hear the strained hissing from my deck but the body language told all.
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The next morning?? Nothing like a little attempted murder to round out an evening of cruising.HE DID IT as the next morning's light saw her still clinging to the anchor line
[threw the drunk g/f over the side ]
Sputnick, That's just behind Cape Capricorn on the Queensland coast. It's on the Tropic of Capricorn, I think. That sand is blown from the beach, which is at least a mile away and is continually falling into the river that I was anchored on. Those are my footsteps in the sand. I was running and jumping off the top and then scrambling back until I had filled every pocket and orifice with sand. Lots of moving sand in Australia.If Russell’s ok with it...he once posted a beautiful pic here of Jzerro against some incredible sand dunes/cliffs- in Australia, maybe? I can’t recall where it was - but I saved the pic as a reminder that I want a weird, very cool boat like that one day - which probably won’t happen (but who knows). And secondly that I want to go to that place and anchor there!(Think it may have been in the “post-your-sunset-pic-thread, ‘Here Comes The Night’?)