Grace,
What can I say.............keep the narratives coming, they keep me laughing. Oh, by the way.......wouldn't divorce be cheaper then converting the spouse from land lover to nautical dream girl?? -----Original Message----- From: Grace Coville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 2:05 pm Subject: M_Boats: Bob, spouses, Pinto Lake, passing Potters Thanks for the kind replies to my "first sail" post. The "Bob" name was intended to mean "bob," like a cork, of course, with a ide reference to a family in-joke. We're always dragging home puppies, ittens, guinea pigs, lost birds, etc and if the animal doesn't already have a ame, we call it Bob. We've had quite a few Bobs in the family. We like to do his to infuriate my husband's long-time business partner Bob (who doesn't uite get the size of this boat and is expecting my family to invite his family n board for cocktail hour). M15 #478 is pre Bob Eeg, but if he wants to join e in some mischief, he's welcome to name his next boat "Grace" and we can both ehemently deny that we have ever met. I salute your wife for reading something about sailing. Here is my plan for usbands to get non-sailing wives interested in sailing: You must remind her hat she is a saint to put up with you. You must fearlessly account for every enny that you spend on sailing and insist that she spend twice that amount on er own interests. All the time spent working on the boat, dreaming about the oat or sailing the boat must be matched minute for minute by asking how her ay went, cleaning the bathroom, and entertaining your in-laws. If she onsents to go on the boat with you, you may not say anything, I repeat NYTHING, critical about how she sails; that includes all commands, nstructions, teaching and "helping." Each time she takes the helm, she gets a iamond. If she falls in at the dock, she gets a new car. If she suggests oing for a sail, you fly her to Hawaii to renew your vows. Yes, Pinto Lake is near Watsonville, CA. Today, when the kids are done with heir last day of school, they and I go on our second sail, trailering "Bob" bout 60 miles to Del Valle Lake for a couple of days. We feel very daring hat since we're not allowed to be on the lake after dark, we're camping in a pull through" space and sleeping on the boat. At least, I'll be sleeping on he boat. The kids will be on the ground, pulling bucket duty, providing the oothing splash-against-the-hull sounds that I like. I bought a temporary-style swim ladder and a bucket-attach potty seat, and ollowing my "spouse laws" this provides my saint husband with enough money to ake a friend to drink about a dozen $10 beer at a Giants game and stay home to ake care of Bob the bird and Bob the dog. Unfortunately, he won't be there to ack the boat into the water, but I figure I'm getting pretty good at going round and around the parking lot; and if one of those power boaters gets mpatient with me clogging up the launch ramp, they can get a bunch of their riends, and we'll all hand carry the boat down. And no, I swear, I wasn't letting no Potter 15 pass me. We were approaching rom opposite ends of the lake, and each time we passed, I made sure we were on starboard tack, so that we could cut devastingly close to his bow, and fire ff the cannons and brandish our cutlasses and let Bob the parrot scream autical obscenities at him. Happy sailing! grace M 15 #478 "Bob" (maybe) No, I have never met Bob Eeg in my life. I don't even know how to pronounce is name. Does it rhyme with "lobe"? -------------------------------- ick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, hen. ______________________________________________ ttp://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
