Cruising...
Be Warned, this little beast grew unintentionally large...
Now this is one crazy boat. Spent a couple of days sailing on a 28' yacht, and came across one of these on sure. They're fuckin' fast, and crazy looking when they lift up on hydrofoils.
Picture here.
The yacht i was on, being a cruise yacht, wasn't exceptionally fast, rather un-fast even. But we did manage to piss of a boat behind us by blocking their every attempt to pass us, swerving this way and that, until they tried to tack but fucked up, and fell behind, they're jib (or whatever it was called) flailing in the wind. We weren't just being assholes for the sake of it though: it was acutally a race, although they were in a different class (a faster one too)... the event was weeklong, ' geelong week' ... sponsored by Skandia. Evidently we didn't stay for the week. We being myself, a friend, his dad, his dad's friend.
We had a fairly long trip, and we got quite a lot of wind (and swells / waves) on the way back. I did get mildly sea sick for towards the end, but only mildy. No worse than say stuffing yourself with twice as much greasy fast food as you should.
Did get rather mildly sunburnt too... hopefully in the time to come it'll revert to a pleasant looking tan though, however my plans to go to the beack tomorrow for the 35ish degree heat wont help the healing process. I do have some "Le Tan Ice Green Tea After Sun Gel" or LTIGTASG, which isn't a great acronym. It is very soothing though, any many readers will be aware of my love of iced tea, and iced green tea (in this case, i am refering to the drinking kind).
Although, be warned, if don't want an ice-tea that looks like a scumy pond, then don't get a bubble tea: 'plum ice tea with grass jelly' ... truly shocking looking (and odd tasting stuff)... i prefer they're 'ice blended apple' drinks, which have a delicious chemical apple tase. mmm.
And now, something entirely random, for no apparent reason... Well, 99% random, 1% because i like the layout of the quote, even though im quoting myself. And really, i should be consistent, so if i am to quote the aforementioned thing, then i should quote all my works. But i won't. And so i present to you, a little jig. Oh, and i remeber now that 17% of the reason was that i wanted to use the word 'iota'...
Now this is one crazy boat. Spent a couple of days sailing on a 28' yacht, and came across one of these on sure. They're fuckin' fast, and crazy looking when they lift up on hydrofoils.
Picture here.
The yacht i was on, being a cruise yacht, wasn't exceptionally fast, rather un-fast even. But we did manage to piss of a boat behind us by blocking their every attempt to pass us, swerving this way and that, until they tried to tack but fucked up, and fell behind, they're jib (or whatever it was called) flailing in the wind. We weren't just being assholes for the sake of it though: it was acutally a race, although they were in a different class (a faster one too)... the event was weeklong, ' geelong week' ... sponsored by Skandia. Evidently we didn't stay for the week. We being myself, a friend, his dad, his dad's friend.
We had a fairly long trip, and we got quite a lot of wind (and swells / waves) on the way back. I did get mildly sea sick for towards the end, but only mildy. No worse than say stuffing yourself with twice as much greasy fast food as you should.
Did get rather mildly sunburnt too... hopefully in the time to come it'll revert to a pleasant looking tan though, however my plans to go to the beack tomorrow for the 35ish degree heat wont help the healing process. I do have some "Le Tan Ice Green Tea After Sun Gel" or LTIGTASG, which isn't a great acronym. It is very soothing though, any many readers will be aware of my love of iced tea, and iced green tea (in this case, i am refering to the drinking kind).
Although, be warned, if don't want an ice-tea that looks like a scumy pond, then don't get a bubble tea: 'plum ice tea with grass jelly' ... truly shocking looking (and odd tasting stuff)... i prefer they're 'ice blended apple' drinks, which have a delicious chemical apple tase. mmm.
And now, something entirely random, for no apparent reason... Well, 99% random, 1% because i like the layout of the quote, even though im quoting myself. And really, i should be consistent, so if i am to quote the aforementioned thing, then i should quote all my works. But i won't. And so i present to you, a little jig. Oh, and i remeber now that 17% of the reason was that i wanted to use the word 'iota'...
The quota
for concentration
is an iota
of hesitation
And then in my mind,
a brief correlation!
Then an odd sensation.
And a bang, like some kind,
...Of vibration
A spring,
maligned
Elastic here
Stretch back there
I gaze around,
At what surrounds...
What was i saying?
posted by Andrew at
10:46 pm
2 Comments:
You already know I'm jealous. Sounds like such fun to be on a boat, wind in my hair, surging through the waves. I think once you've got the love of the water and sailing in your blood, it never goes away, ever. I can still feel the way the deck shifts beneath your feet. We were on a boat in the Great Lakes for 3 days, taking it from one place to another. When I got off, the dock seemed to be heaving about LOL. Had to get my "Land-legs" back under me. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, indeed!
By
Toria/Deb, at 12:11 am
Sounds like fun. Good to see that even when its a discussion about meaningful stuff, it ends up being totally random. Superb use of the word "iota".
By
Eat_My_Shortz, at 7:45 pm
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