Hairy tales from in Inner Banks. (Sort of...)
 

Sooo...

I'm here in coastal NC, trying to get the house of my dreams built, living in a rental house while the missus is back home in PA trying to sell the old homestead. After cooking for myself (just like the ole bachelor days) all week, I decide to hit to local waterfront establishment for dinner and a cocktail. The weather is pretty hairy, with squalls moving through, and at some point a group of boaters comes through the door, clearly shaken and weather-beaten. I pay casual interest to their story, hoping to gain a bit of local knowledge, and what transpires is this:

Haggard boater: "Man! it's really hairy out there. That was scary."

Seated buddy: Oh yeah? What happened?

Haggard boater: We were trying to make the harbor, and when we turned into the wind and seas, the boat came to an absolute stop!"

(At this point, I'm thinking: "Man! if they stuffed it, that's a scary deal...")

Seated buddy: "Wow! What kind of speed were you making at the turn?" (At this point my Suspicion Meter goes to full alert. This is not powerboat terminology.)

Haggard boater: "Geez. Whaddayathink guys? Had to be at least 6 knots."

Then I remembered: "I'm in Oriental, NC, The Salbote Kapital of NC"... My boat idles that fast. On one engine...

At this point, I resumed watching sports bloopers on the bar TV. Far more exciting...

I'm seriously considering taking this pansy out and demonstrating chine-walk to him at something around 85 mph. I'll make him clean his own poop off of the seat, though...

Why not? Nothing like a subtle introduction to the new neighbors! Best of luck with the new house!

Dont say you werent warned, it's their town. My uncle lives in Oriental, he is the most militant sailor you'll ever meet, he works at one of the yards down there. Are you building on high ground or on stilts? He has been flooded out twice in the last 10 years, pretty disheartening when your in your 70's.

Good luck with your new life, I would like to get down there this fall and explore around.

why on earth would anyone want a boat that requires the weather to be sh!tty for it to function properly . . . . . oh and then complain about having to go against the very thing that propels you :picard1: lol


prolly a good thing ya didnt interject yourself into the conversation early on, coulda got ugly :D


looks like an appropriate place for this pic . . . . again lol

Very funny Chuck. Show us some pics of your dream home. Good luck with getting it finished.

Both. The workshop on the lower floor will be at 10'6", the lower bedrooms at 12'. The master wing (on pilings) and main floor will be at 22'.

Didn't I post that a few years back?

I'm definitely stealing that pic. Awesome

Right now, it looks like this:

Nice lookin house. Little damp when it rains? Lol

Got a laugh out of me, thanks! :)

Possibly but I was the one that scanned it from boating magazine about eight years ago and unleashed it on Oso :D. I can tell because if you look real close the frame is cocked about one degree from perfectly straight. That was from one of Berke's columns, I have always been a huge fan.

My version! I saved all of Berkely Breathed's columns. They were HYSTERICAL. If your clipping is off by 1 degree, you must be part sailor...

Lol you scanned that to ? I also have all his column as well as every book he put out :picard1:


Always been a big bloom county fan, if you remember Bill the cat was my first avatar

Your scan and mine have the same filename. Mine is dated March 2008.

Bill the cat: "Ack!"

Loved the column about Ivana Trumps yacht with Perrier water an goldfish in the toilets. Until the goldfish started exploding..

this is my original scan, i had saved yours thinking i lost it on another hard drive but found it this morning in a file called "old hard drives" lol Its named berkcartoon and dated Friday, December 27, 2002, 5:48:30 PM Thats too funny. Youl notice mine is juuuust slightly off center to the right and i musta had a good scanner at the time cuz it pulled decent color :D

I have another scan of Opus running a Cigarette that says 1000HP on the side, its his minds eye view of the thrill of smoking an actual cigarette for the first time "taste the excitement" or something like that then shows him hurling lol