WHAZZUPWIDDAT?? (a newly famous Portuguese sailor man).
"now you turn the key on 1,2,3 GO,and I'll throw the two switches and hope we got 'nuff juice to start"
"? 'its probably just two boats traveling together…. At the same speed, not far apart… fast…. Or …. Its one BIG boat!!!!!!!!"
"after the request (via hand held VHF radio) to the bridge of a cruise liner Bermuda bound for weather information as our electronics was down "you must be kidding me"
"whale on the bow, turning left!!!!!!!"
"I have your position as 200 MILES off the coast!!" (Boat US weenie)
"a few flags short of a full hoist"
"so he took out a SAWS-ALL"
"a washing machine with no dry cycle, red interior lights and a 4 hr saltwater rinse"
"duh… I got this dull headache…ME too, hey Me too!!!! ?humm lack of CAFFIENE??"
"there's a OCEAN of water out there!!" (olde Portuguese saying)
"Bob, I think we need more sail, no???" (olde Belgium saying)
"…naw I'me fine right her on the helm" (younger Belgium saying)
"one wave at a time"
"TRAIL MIX"
"sheeeet……I got shoes older 'n dat!!!"
"time for a fix"
Mark & Victoria : "Mark, your inputs needed"
Mark: "I am the I in TEAM"
TWM: "its time for a beer" Luc: "no alcohol during the race" Everyone: thunderous silence
TWM: "now I can have my beer - its hot - does not matter"
"mmmm - you smell good" (very diplomatic)
"lets get out of here" (reception)
race official to Mark: "you know what it means." Mark: "I know, we are honest"
"Now I know that I can light a cigarette under any weather condition"
"look, the compass light works"
50 yards from where the waves were breaking (TWM): "that must be the reef"
"2 racks of lamb in the oven" (said the vegetarian)
"hmmmm, we have lime - where is the rum?"
"these are charts, not maps" (americans trying to educate an alien)
Mark: "I just emptied the head" Everyone: "we know"
Keith: "lets go to the beach before you guys invent something else to work on."
"They shut down the entire boat yard - CATERED"
"Who's water is this" (anyone, anywhere, anytime)
"look at those waves" (when crossing the stream during the race)
Mark: "this is the first time ever that I manouvered this boat in a slip"
Luc: "Mark, the head is flowing over"
"It's all good"
How Bob mounts an O-ring in the water pump. When the O-ring does not fit, you throw it in (your own) hot coffee. You then take it out with a screw driver that you have been dipping into liquid electrical tape, you throw it on the mounting plate ... and it fits as never before. Finally you finish your coffee
Bob's banana story - how many times did you win the race
Mark selling hot tub services to Bob and Keith
Mark and the girls with rock fever
Dark rock drinks
Lennie, the on-shore off-shore weather man
Mark seducing the Bermuda immigration department
Mark and Wilson on environmental issue
any story which does not start with a "grinding" machine?
conversation with Canadian war ship
ladies, please sit down (the head)
Navy obsservation plane scanning the gulf stream
Why did we need ear plugs?
generation gap observed by the night watch: you guys snore and talk in your sleep
Worshiping the almighty powers of James Taylor to bring wind
welcome back to foggy New England: did not see Gay Head Light house (passed under it, less than 4 miles). The first piece of land that we saw was West Island, 4 miles away from Mattapoisett and already 15 miles in Buzzard's Bay
Some of the wildlife that we saw: * whale * dolphin/tortoise * mahi-mahi * portugese man-of-war * flying fish * shark * sargasso weed * sea turtle * colorful fish at the dinghy club * two red-billed Tropicbird (an offshore gull-like bird with a very long tail hovering near the top of the mast) * plenty of fluoresence plankton eluminating the wave/wake of the boat