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Originally Posted by pwd72s
People always around sail boats amaze me sometimes. Remember well one time aboard a friend's boat in the Caribbean. We pulled up to the water dock, I tossed a line to the kid working there. Stan started to instruct the kid on how to cleat...kid gave Stan a disgusted look, and still standing, cleated it one handed and perfectly.
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We weren't on a sailboat. We had just taken a 'ship' out of the mothball fleet up near the north bay in San Francisco. I can't remember what kind it was, but it was a lot bigger than the privately owned ex-Coast Guard cutter that was being used as a tug boat. We were docking pretty much under the bridge of the freeway that goes over to Treasure Island. I do remember that it was winter time and it was cold, damp, and oh yeah, did I say it was cold?
Had quite the experience of exploring that 'ship' since it was dark as it had no on-board power.