Back Home Alive and Well
Posted Aug 10, 07:46 PM
Sorry guys. Sorry boats. Proved once again: Two boats cannot become One in a pretty open anchorage. Rafting has it’s limits. I almost hate to say La Mouette appears to have come away with only a little of the anodize rubbed off her toe rail. Far more importantly, no participant appears to have suffered a scratch much less what ex-Fire Captain Williams of our Crew explained as a potential traumatic amputation. Several times our four tons of boat disagreed quite violently with Pilgrimage’s seven with lots of hands and arms in the vicinity. What a crunch it was! Twice, in fact. Not instantaneous bumps. More like short earthquakes that take a perceptible time to play out. Cr-uu-NNN-ch. Lit coldly by the beams of several LED headsets, flashlights and an unearthly glow from beneath Pilgrimage, it all seemed quite cinematic.
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