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Re: The Ubiquitous Docking Committee

Posted By: Carl
Date: Friday, 17 June 2005, at 10:13 a.m.

In Response To: Re: The Ubiquitous Docking Committee (Peter)

One of my favorite stories was most likely told here before. But what the hell I'll repeat it.

My first year of High School and after school on Friday I meet pops down at the boat to do a bit of Striper fishing. Well we had a great afternoon which turned into a great night and a fantastic morning. Since we where only planning on staying out the day we had no food and little to drink, Okay we had a bottle of Blackberry Brandy which was nipped slowly in the morning then drank the next day. Soooooo

We head for home and decided to sell our fish at the bulkhead cause neither of us wanted to clean them. Dollar a piece or 4 for a quarter, can you believe some only bought 1 for a dollar, anyway. The midday wind started blowing in a direction that made docking difficult, plus a bunch of people hanging around the dock and we pull into the slip fairly quick, not touching a piling, flips the boat into reverse and stops dead center and we tie up. As I'm grabbing the ropes I realize a small problem. Dad shuts the engine down and starts smirking, "Nice Dock huh... can you beat that one" he rattles out to the crowd. The crowd, a bunch of our pier buddies all smile back with a little grin.

"Uh Dad, small problem here" as he looks to me I have to tell him "Great Dock, Wrong Slip", The funniest thing was to watch that huge grin disappear as he looked around and realized "we be in da wrong place." Guess thats why drinking and driving don't mix.

One last quickie... Several year ago I had a guy move in next to me with one of those Bayliner Trophies, He would always go out with the family. To dock, he'd start to back into the slip, to the point the stern got "close" to the entrance of the slip, shut it down and then everybody ran to the back of the boat and started grabbing for the dock. It would look like a bunch of little baby birds being feed in a nest. All the hands clammering for the dock.

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Peter -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 11:25 a.m.

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Carl -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 1:55 p.m.

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Rawleigh -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 3:16 p.m.

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Capt. Dave Kosh -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 3:39 p.m.

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Dug -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 4:06 p.m.

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Vic Roy -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 4:33 p.m.

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Mike Kennedy -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 8:12 p.m.

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bruce -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 4:35 p.m.

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JohnD -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 5:08 p.m.

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Peter -- Thursday, 16 June 2005, at 10:20 p.m.

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Carl -- Friday, 17 June 2005, at 10:13 a.m.

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Dug -- Friday, 17 June 2005, at 12:03 p.m.

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Carl -- Friday, 17 June 2005, at 4:48 p.m.

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Peter -- Friday, 17 June 2005, at 5:28 p.m.

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Carl -- Saturday, 18 June 2005, at 12:19 p.m.

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Robert Rae -- Sunday, 19 June 2005, at 5:32 p.m.

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Carl -- Monday, 20 June 2005, at 12:48 p.m.

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