inthesticksnow
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2005
- Messages
- 75
Ever have someone on board who drove you nuts, and ruined your whole day?<br /><br />We are on the Illinois River, (between the Mississippi and Lake Michigan). There is plenty or recreation, but this is after all a commercial waterway! There are some serious barges
just estimating here, but sometimes there are 9 of them strapped together, three wide, three long, maybe 300 long with a HUGE tugboat sort of thing pushing them either up or down stream. These tugboat things are massively powerful, and have screws not only in the rear, but on the port and starboard sides as well. The turbulence these things create is incredible.<br /><br />We have an 18 runabout, the wife and I with 18 hours boating experience, and a drunk buddy with 600 hours of drunken boating experience under his belt, who his yelling to everyone and anyone who can hear him, Its cocktail hour! <br /><br />600 hours of boating experience, and this guy wanted me to dock along side the tugboat, so he can jump on board, and talk with the crew!<br /><br />Because I wouldnt get within 100 yards of this thing, my buddy gets all[ticked]off, and from that moment on he didnt stop insulting us for the rest of the day/evening. We were trapped with a monster on board, who had his own alcohol who wouldnt slow down.<br /><br />He was a friend that we see maybe 2 3 times a year, usually with his wife, but this time he was by himself spending the weekend with us, so I couldnt throw him off the boat! OH! I wanted to! SO BAD! But I couldnt
<br /><br />Help me here! Im sure there are worst stories, right??? <large grin>
