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Nordhavnpassagemakertrawleritis
Skipper's Log Star date: 0111:00Aug05 est
In the beginning, I think, maybe, it was right after, or about face, when Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men. Sir Drake's favourite chef, Sir Loin manned the cutting board. It hurts to be on the cutting edge. Now, his men were rowing as fast and as hard as they could at the time. Until the Captain on the ship announced that Sir Drake wanted to go water skiing in the afternoon. This is the why, & how the first tape recorded Mutiney's over the Bounty paper towels, and Drake's cakes happened.
It seems that my admiral got one of her nic names 'dysfunctional docker', because of her love of the fast forward throttle when she is docking. Now, my admiral has never had an accident. She probably will cause a few hundred, but, she will never have one. You have nothing to worry about, most bridge tenders know her. They telephone ahead to the dock she is intended on going to, like the turn signal on a car, she may turn, she may not turn, and give a general alarm to the people at the dock. So one big advantage of a slow vessel is maybe, she can grasp the concept of 'slow' is smooth, smooth is 'fast', maybe. My thoughts on wireless: according to my Admiral, wireless is more comfortable, when she compares it to being under wire...
I agree with my admiral that living on Earth is expensive, but I did explain to her that it does include a free trip around the sun. I told her that if we lived on our boat, we'd be home by now. I hope to be in stylus for my admiral and not slate her one bit. So this sea loving, trash taking outer, 'Popeye', who had read myself, because, I had brailled my armpits, shaved my legs, put on my sunday go to meeting clothes and was ready as unusual to get our show on the long and winding ocean. My admiral knows very well that my dots have never connected and I am missing more that a few dashes, unlike Mr Morse and his SOS brillo pad, who is always connected.
I am happy that my admiral loves me warts and all. I know she loves me because the Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth, BIBLE, tells me so.
My new design for living, in simple terms, I present my admiral with one obvious right way versus one obvious wrong way, it is often wiser for me to choose the wrongway, so as to expidite her subsequent revision. Which I frequently do.
What is Nordhavnpassagemakertrawleritis?
Please support bacteria. It's the only culture I have. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. I don't suffer from insanity -
I enjoy every minute of it!
Nordhavnpassagemakertraleritis means to me that I am not always politically correct nor am I always wet.
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - – Albert Einstein, Scientist
 It is not because I desire a front seat in history, though I do have remants of a very colorful past that are interspersed with signs of an exciting future. My mind does wander aimlessly, unlike a sideswiper aim-9a guided missile, (GM).
I like an intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, don't work, and can't be fire'd. My mind does not mind visiting my past but I do not park there. "All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare."
– Dale Carnegie
Skipper's Log Star date: 2722:22Aug05 est ac
I have seen the future, but I signed a nondisclosure. As a result of my recent head trip, I'm just catching up with yesterday. By tomorrow I should be ready for the day before. My admiral reminded me that Nobody's perfect and I'm nobody.
My Dream Floats .....
Nordhavn 55
(Photo Courtesy of Nordhavn)
My Dreams are reel to me
There are wood ships,
and good ships,
that sail the sea .....
but the best ships are friendships,
and may they always be.
*denotes the same Shortcake as told to me by a very famous Indian Chief Traynor Ora Halftown, full-blooded Native Indian from the Seneca tribe in upstate New York. Now the chief drank in New Jersey and worked in the city of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA, a former mummer regular, you may 'goggle' the chief if you like, this sensational reliving of yester year was in the area of the Grand Canyon, AZ. "Ees da sa sussaway" which was Seneca for "Let us begin" or "Let's get started." The idea was actually his mom's. He just wanted to say, "roll the cartoon." Now, the best I reckon I can recall from the Chief's story is that: For a long time a large bear, gigantic in size to the average indian tribe member back in the day. Well, this bear was always scarring the woman squaws and the nine (9) little indians. So the Chief called NATO tribal members and had a pow wow wow, he wanted a volunteer to rid the area of the big bear. So, a very brave warrior, named Shortcake volunteered for the mission. The chief told Shortcake: "Nya-wey." That means thanks in Seneca.
He was the only taker. He left for the black hills of North Dakota (no GPS back then) and was gone for several weeks. Finally the Chief sent a search and rescue (S&R) party to look for Shortcake. The reason is that after a few days the big bear never, ever returned to the area of operations of the indians. Within a few days, the S&R team members returned carrying Shortcake's lifeless body. The team told the Chief and members of No Action, Talk Only (NATO) present at the time, that they did find the big bear not alive, with Shortcake's knife still in him. Shortcake must have died in the battle with the bear. The Chief wanted a grand funeral for the tribal hero. But, noooooooooo, Shortcake's wife, Sally the Starr from Popeye theater fame, told the Chief:
" Squaw bury Shortcake!".
Believe it or I admire Admiral Ripknot.
FUN:
It is not as much fun putting fuel in a Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor as it is in a Proline and it is so much more funner to put all the fuel I can in a Nordhavn.
I enjoy changing the oil in a Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor, I would love to change the oil in a Nordhavn.
I have fun riding on a Cub Cadot Lawn Tractor, I believe it is sooooooooo much more fun to ride anywhere on a Nordhavn.
I get a kick out of applying a coat of Mothers California Gold original formula Carnauba cleaner wax which is safe for clear coats on a Cub Cadot Lawn Tractor, I know I will play and listen to Jimmy Buffet as I rinse off, utilizing a fresh potable water hose a Nordhavn.
I know I am still aboard some day isle, my departure is imminent, bulbous bow an all.
I'd rather be Nordhavn'g!
NEW; Ship Happens!:
Dreams Float welcomes 'VALKYRIE'. a newly commissioned in Stuart, Florida N55. Nordhavn special decoder ring or minimum, one box of Chicklet's gum required for me to enunciate, pronounce, or spell her name.
**denotes Prayer, Meditation, & Serenity
Northeast Florida
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