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After being out on the boat all day, tieing up was the usual letdown. As I stepped onto the dock I savored those fleeting moments. the motion that lingers - the speed that hangs on, even when you're standing still. And as I turned toward the marina I saw ...
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the dock drifting away while I apparently seemed to twist and dawdle in mid air for a moment just before....
I was struck by the certainty that there wasn't going to be any chance of.....
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of my setting my drink down safely before I fell into the "drink" myself...
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...when I espied one of those mooring whips dangling overhead. Grabbing it with one hand I was catapulted onto...
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...the rusting after-turret of that mighty monitor HMVS Cerberus, now doing duty as....
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Lulu's Clam House & Bait Shop. Landing in a huddled lump squarely at the feet of that paragon of waterfront decorum, Lulu herself, I looked up and said ...
"Martha, Martha is that you? It's me, Bob you know, the one who...
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...plants orchids in the scuppers, and pays her crew to polish the propeller every day. Well, I've come to set you straight about CPES. You see if you add some boiled rhubarb just before it kicks off it will forever prevent your need for gronicles, and we all know that is a good thing! Oh wait, here comes...
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that fellow who claims that a dollar is as good as.......
but alas, it was just a dream of better days ta come when that fine craft is restored and heading out to open waters for real....
...in the mean time there was the stem, the bloody outer stem that needed to be redone, again. Having been left in the hands of an amature to complete, it had become to thin at the forefoot while being fitted to the curve...
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of someones frozen gronicles absently left on the bar "Now look at that...
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damn fine Akubra hat" on...
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"Damn!" I said to Lulu. "Do you have any gronicle grease? It seems that the short flight I took to get here has shifted my baggywrinkle causing it to chafe against my mizzen pole and if I don't do something about it right away it'll wear a hole in my ...
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leathers..........oohhh!, that's much better. Lulu, you're quite the.........
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fibreglass mast step. Regaining my senses, I let out a mighty yell to all within earshot.
"You can take your two bit.....
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Atlas Imperial and use it for a...
hard-boiled egg, slathered with a special wax to keep fresh while
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...I try to get that damn burqa off of Lulu...
..but my suplication pants have...
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Yikes, Do YOU see that! He's got on supplication pants. Do you KNOW what that MEANS!!!!
started to leak badly at the chines, so I told her, "grab a bucket and...
...stand back!" We've got to make it to Our Lady of the Pheonix before..
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... the Reverend Ed cries fowl and makes off with ...
The Magic Bush.
Meanwhile, at the undersea cavern of the cruel and murderous...
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subturanean Admirable Cleek....
he rises to his feet from the turquoise throne, having finished reading this month's WB...
He stared vacantly into the mirror. Something peculiar had happened to him recently. Whether the cause was a posting by an actual builder of gondolas or the rumor of Martha Stewart appearing neked in a tv commercial, he had lost a bit of his crustyness.....
Turning to straighten the matching rose embroiderd hand towels....
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He paused, examining his handsome face in the mirror, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall", he began...
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Is a Dyarchy a "true" Pilot Cutter, or a mere representation of one?"
"I need to know because...
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...I sure wouldn't want to be criticized by the "real" pilot cutter owners when I pose her for some boat porn in the next WB!" said he, purposefully ripping a page from the copy of Ruel Parker's "Backyard Boatbuilding" that was hanging from a string next to his throne...
Thus fortified, he exited his royal stall and headed for the door, whereupon he spied his friend Rick Prose cradling a nicely done new half model under one arm while standing before one of the row of busy Martha Stewart color-coordinated urinals. "Nice, Dick..." was all he managed to say before being trampled as all present dashed for the throne room door...
Collecting himself and his thoughts up off of the floor, he thought, "Supplication pants, my ass...
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itches like hell. I wonder? CPES? linseed oil? or perhaps...
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...antifreeze. He stretches and yawns and scratches his ...
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an allergic reaction to epoxy. He knew he should have stuck with...
...perhaps clamps..hmm..that should do it.
(Absently sings "...Looking for clamps in allll the wrong places....)
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Another forum since this one censors or slows all but about ten or twelve left wing fanatics.
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...and so upon finally exiting that royal throne room the less crusty Cleek spies down by the water's edge no other than the normally gentile John R. Smith. Only today John is toting the biggest old clampoon cleek had ever seen. When asked what he was planning on doing with that 'ol clampoon, john responded with .......
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yes... another forum. But where could he turn to? He contemplated for a brief moment and decided that it was time to make a return to the forum he knew he could always be welcome at , and that was....
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after quicky purusing the rather unwooden boat like jayjay site he figures in his totally wooden epoxy varnished CPES saturated mind "aaarrr me hearties none of that there ayrcrafty pilot type trainin fer me I gotta get back to me maties aboard the good ship....
Faux-Teak, when suddenly his attention is captured like a stray dockline between counter rotating prop shafts by the gentle undulation of two large...
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...not to say, gross, buttocks, apparently belonging to a ...
member of the Fat Women Who Watch Jerry Springer Forum, who stopped by to see why Lulu hadn't been on line in a while. "You haven't made a post on the FWWWJSF since October 24th. Where oh where have you been?" Lulu replies, ..."
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"Wallowin me buttocks in the Cornwall mud my sweety, and trying to keep my starboard to my betters." Dreaming of Carrick Roads and the beckoning freedom beyond, she.....
...writhed luxuriously under the tender ministrations of John and Kate, scraping, cleaning and repainting a few places that had been itching intolerably the last few years.
He looked back, saw that the picture of Martha on the outside of the Throne Room still hung fashionably askew, and returned to his thoughts.
Other forums? He pondered, decided the mystery of of the missing Jack commanded attention in this one, and decided to begin an investigation. Returning to his office, he placed a phone call to.....
at the very heart of the Roman Empire, where Spartacus marches his army of slaves against the might of...
"Turn that station back" came a screach from the other room,"doncha go messin with the tv just 'cause im in the dunny"the voice cackled. Cleek fumed, but controlled himself, returning to the phone when suddenly.....
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