Cap'n Crunch
So we arrived in Swansboro for the nuptials yesterday under beautiful skies. Just as we had finished rehearsals, I received a phone call from Large.
"Here. Talk to Bobbie."
Seems that she and Lyle were motoring up the Intercoastal Waterway in their 35-ft boat, Par-Tee Time, from St. James Plantation below Southport when Lyle decided to do a nautical maneuver known as a "New Jersey U-turn" at a speed of 25 knots. This, of course, put the boat into a skid ... directly into a sandbar. This sudden stoppage from high speed sent Bobbie flying across the deck and into the cabin, breaking her wrist somewhere along the way.
In attempting to dislodge the boat from the sandbar, Cap'n Crunch (as Lyle now will be forever known) filled the engine cooling system with sand, etc. such that it would no longer run.
The Coast Guard arrived to rescue Bobbie from the sandbar (thus extending Cap'n Crunch's life for at least one more day). An EMS vehicle pick her up at the dock and took her to a hospital in Wilmington where the broken wrist was set and a cast applied. Large and Mary pick her up and drove her to Swansboro where she could partake of pain medication made from the Chardonnay grape.
And, you might ask, what of Cap'n Crunch? Well, he was left stranded on the boat until high tide arrived at 9:30 pm last night when he and the boat could be towed to the marina.
Large reports this morning that Cap'n is also in pain from having slammed into the dash and that the boat is being pulled from the water today whereupon the shipwrights making the repair will, as Large ever so eloquently puts it, "take all of Cap'n Crunch's money".
More later.
"Here. Talk to Bobbie."
Seems that she and Lyle were motoring up the Intercoastal Waterway in their 35-ft boat, Par-Tee Time, from St. James Plantation below Southport when Lyle decided to do a nautical maneuver known as a "New Jersey U-turn" at a speed of 25 knots. This, of course, put the boat into a skid ... directly into a sandbar. This sudden stoppage from high speed sent Bobbie flying across the deck and into the cabin, breaking her wrist somewhere along the way.
In attempting to dislodge the boat from the sandbar, Cap'n Crunch (as Lyle now will be forever known) filled the engine cooling system with sand, etc. such that it would no longer run.
The Coast Guard arrived to rescue Bobbie from the sandbar (thus extending Cap'n Crunch's life for at least one more day). An EMS vehicle pick her up at the dock and took her to a hospital in Wilmington where the broken wrist was set and a cast applied. Large and Mary pick her up and drove her to Swansboro where she could partake of pain medication made from the Chardonnay grape.
And, you might ask, what of Cap'n Crunch? Well, he was left stranded on the boat until high tide arrived at 9:30 pm last night when he and the boat could be towed to the marina.
Large reports this morning that Cap'n is also in pain from having slammed into the dash and that the boat is being pulled from the water today whereupon the shipwrights making the repair will, as Large ever so eloquently puts it, "take all of Cap'n Crunch's money".
More later.
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ReplyDeleteWhat does it teach you?
ReplyDeleteBoats shouldn't go more than say between 5 and 8 knots.
But, Cap'n Crunch doesn't do ANYTHING between 5 and 8 knots. He was moving faster than that when he fell out of his mother's womb.
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