how come no one except me is posting
am running thin on strories( well not really, but I have to go back to remember - do ant of you remember when we were under siege up at the mine ? if I'lll repost it. Incidentatlly I am having troublt with this new (second hand) computer, gift from my son who works at te HP development plant here in Tucson. They have a enormus area dedecated to reaerch and dew programs.
they periodically toss away their lap tops, first removing their hard drives, mw son has a ebormus locker for of the HP laptops minus hard drives of the latest laptops, I am jst learning some f the quirks of onre.. He is of no help, he has gone over the programs so many times that he just ships over tto what are to him non esentials,while I am still trying to decide what are to me nonesentials I hate it when he makes me feel old or useless, as if I can't solve the slightest problem, ror example he has installed on physical contact mouse, and other things yeh, I have removes a few things, but it is only a bit of tine before he finds out and I have to relearn something. sigh
Hola Don amigo
I have yarn for you? Coffee.
Come and pull up a seat, get comfy and enjoy this little following yarn.
I cannot believe how quickly the years have past since the world trade center was attacked and destroyed as world watched in horror of the events of 9/11. In many conversation I have had over years where was you when it all took place?
I was in the North Pacific on mysterious voyage paid for by a rich Texan man and his wife and 18 year old son. I have forgotten his name but I recall he was from Austin Texas. He and his wife was quite very well off. He claimed he was related to one of the founders of a large electronic component company, I and my wife met the couple while vacationing in Honolulu staying at the Halekulani Hotel.
The wife and I was siting around the pool feeling a little out of place. Strange because we was on holiday with pool etc... but hey I live on an island and have my own pool and it seemed a little silly. we was gone on holiday to do exactly what we do every day at home for free but now paying through the nose for it?
In we was there in fact for my daughters weeding. After wedding we had book in hotel there decidedly proud we got daughter number 2 married off. Having a large brood of family instead of paying for flights I traveled by my old Love tub brig "Drumbeat" Having an old sailing brig always inspires people dream about sailing away amigos. Yet some time due to size and type of vessel I could not get suitable berthing at the time.
I had the Drumbeat berthed at Kewalo Basin is a commercial boat harbor that serves as home to some of Honolulu's commercial fishing fleet, and charter and excursion vessels that serve the Hawaii tourist market. Yet here we were wedding over spending the last few days before heading home. There we were drinking Mai Tai cocktails. The Mai Tai is a cocktail based on rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, associated with Polynesian-style settings. It amigo definitely livens up the scenes.
We was on our second or was it the third? When we met the couple on next to table to us. He was a middle aged man with that long distinctive Texan drawl was rather agitated and frustrated on the telephone with charter company that pulled out of charter he was trying to arrange. His wife rather embarrassed looked across and smiled trying to cheer he husband up. We had inadvertently over heard the conversation he knew nothing a ships or sailing in Pacific. A real land lubber so to speak. Being a wee bit tipsy we broke the ice and a conversation commenced between us. His wife said in small talk where did we fly in from as she could not quite understand our accents
I told her that I and my family had sailed my daughter for her Wedding in from an island in the western Pacific. This off course perked interest in me by the husband who bombarded me with questions about the western Pacific? He was suitable impressed when I told him I have sailed the Pacific all my life. He and his wife invited us to dinner.
He told me he had arranged a charter vessel to take him and his family on voyage to the far north west pacific and the charter had fallen through as they could not deliver on the promises they had made. So you have a boat my friend? Not a boat my friend a brig capable in voyaging anywhere. They said they were heading to Marina to find another charter company. The very Marina that the Drumbeat was berthed. So conversation came around to so you have a brigantine the Texans wife said impressed Me trying to focus as the cocktails had began to take effect and blurted out why not you both visit the drumbeat for lunch tomorrow while you visiting marina?
The other half elbowed me as she had other plans and wanted to go sight seeing before we left. But there it was in trouble with the other half by returning the kind gesture of being invited to dinner by offering lunch on the drumbeat.
Well amigos if ya interested I shall continue this yarn just pull up a seat around the campfire and grab yourself a coffee. So you see amigos a casual conversation can lead to strange journey.
To be continued....
Kanacki
