"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message

Good one CM. I'm still laughing. Do you have
any more of these stories? Tell us more...

This next adventure was more of a test of another Captain. We had just
completed sea trials on a boat my buddy was buying... a 20ft Bayliner Trophy
cuddy cabin walk-about.... the deal was done and we were on our way with the
Trophy thru the same mooring field enroute to the ramp.

Anyway..... I saw Caroline aboard her 24 ft sailboat having drinks with
some people at their mooring. I headed towards her. At about the same
instance I spotted an empty can of beer in the mesh bag beside me.....

I grabbed the beer can waving it back and forth in front of me and started
yelling & slurring at her to get out of my way while aiming directly at her
vessel. Panic on her part ensued as she clambered for the bow and pointed to
her mooring painter screaming at me to stop. I of course laid onto the horn
and screamed I'd run her down if she didn't get out of my way! She pointed
at her guests ... one of whom was in a massive shoulder cast and brace. She
valiantly kept screaming that she was on a moored vessel and couldn't
move.... her arms flailing wildly. They were scrambling for their dinghy
when I approached close and turned the Trophy smartly around laughing!

After their adrenaline rush subsided.... we took them all for a run in the
Trophy and over a brew Caroline assured me she thought some drunken power
boater was going to T-Bone her boat! The geologist in the cast had just been
mauled by a bear the week before.!! He was considering if he should continue
working up north.... he's still there.

What would you have done in her place...... I would have used the Flare
Gun! :-)

CM