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Re: Sailin' Stories!
Here's one from very early on in my boating life. Out in (Out - in, huh?), Keehi Lagoon there's three seaplane runways, which conveniently create a large triangle. They were cut right out of the coral. For fun there's the Wednesday night races around that triangle. I used to work for Keehi Marine Center and talked the owner into putting up a twelve pack of beer as a prize. I only won that once aboard my 26' Pearson named "Blue". And that was on a night not too many boats showed up.
Anyways, one night a guy that owned a Trimeran(3 hulls) asked me to crew for him. Cool, sounds good! We got a late start working our way to the starting line. And for some reason, he didn't have the sheets(lines or ropes) connected to the Jib(forward sail). I had just previously learned how to tie a bowline(a knot that has a loop in it). Well I'm up there going the rabbit comes out his hole around the tree and back in, which is one way to remember how to tie it, but it didn't work. Now my Captain is screaming at me to hurry up, which of course made it impossible for me to get the job done, so I just tied a sloppy mess of a knot. At the end of the night, we actually had to cut the line to get it off. HaHa! And boat line is like Tapa, you never want to cut it. Another funny thing is the boatyard owner bought a 17' Lightning racing sailboat that he really tricked out. It would beat much larger boats, so he started winning his own beer back! 
Here's one from very early on in my boating life. Out in (Out - in, huh?), Keehi Lagoon there's three seaplane runways, which conveniently create a large triangle. They were cut right out of the coral. For fun there's the Wednesday night races around that triangle. I used to work for Keehi Marine Center and talked the owner into putting up a twelve pack of beer as a prize. I only won that once aboard my 26' Pearson named "Blue". And that was on a night not too many boats showed up.
Anyways, one night a guy that owned a Trimeran(3 hulls) asked me to crew for him. Cool, sounds good! We got a late start working our way to the starting line. And for some reason, he didn't have the sheets(lines or ropes) connected to the Jib(forward sail). I had just previously learned how to tie a bowline(a knot that has a loop in it). Well I'm up there going the rabbit comes out his hole around the tree and back in, which is one way to remember how to tie it, but it didn't work. Now my Captain is screaming at me to hurry up, which of course made it impossible for me to get the job done, so I just tied a sloppy mess of a knot. At the end of the night, we actually had to cut the line to get it off. HaHa! And boat line is like Tapa, you never want to cut it. Another funny thing is the boatyard owner bought a 17' Lightning racing sailboat that he really tricked out. It would beat much larger boats, so he started winning his own beer back!
, she instead went into nightly service off Waikiki and never did the inter-island gig. But, I was the live-aboard maintainance/watchman for 5 years, living at pier 39 next to the Sea Flight repair dock, then pier 6 accross from the Oceana floating restaurant during which time I met Jack Lord whom was filming 5-0 nearby on The Royal Prince and came over to talk sailing with me (!), then we mover her to Kewalo Basin.
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