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30-09-2003, 08:52 AM
Avast!
Shiver me matey's! Weigh the mizzen beam and heave the starb'rd boom ter the splice.
Haarrr!
Yep, it's true. Not satisfied with feeding bait to tiny bream from the shore, I've done got meself a boat from which to feed bait to tiny bream whilst afloat.
For the love of God!!
It's not much of a boat, it must be said. It's a white one. It floats in shallow water as long as the bottom is resting on a sandbank. It's got a pointy bit on the front and a whizzy sort of egg-beater thing on the flat end, which looks handy. Might use it to mow the lawn when I'm not on the river.
Anyway, they said I had to get a bit of paper saying I was licensed to drive a boat. This makes a change from the usual bit of paper I have to get, which says I'm licensed to leave the grounds of the institution... don't get many of those and usually only on Abu Dhabi State public holidays. Such is me lot.
Off I toddle to the very nice people at the Waterworks Office. Apparently, I needed to answer some questions and they'd give me a license. Not too sure if "I'll give you a licence if you take me to bed and make me howl like a dingo" is an official test question, but that's the only one the nice lady behind the counter asked before she gave me me licence. That happens a lot to Render - it's a curse of the Adonis genes I was handed down :(
So, one satisifed Aussie Cheryl later, I'm legally allowed out on the wet stuff, driving me own boat. Oy vey! I cracked a bottle of 4X over the pointy bit, named it 'Ying Tong Iddile I Boat' and shoved off. I came back later and the boat was still there, so I got in and went for a drive ;D
Gents, a wiser man than me once said "The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know" or better written words to that effect. How right he was. (Or she was... it could have been a she... I don't want to be sexist... one should never be sexist, 'cause tarts hate that).
I head out to the middle of the river and several things occur to me, more or less simultaneously. It occurred to me that I had not a Scooby how to actually drive a boat, having never done it and having stolen, erm.. passed me licence in NSW. It occurred to me that having finally worked out how to make the pointy bit on the front go left and right that I had NFI where or how to go about catching fishies from a boat. Different kettle of fish from the shore, pun intended.
Finally it occurred to me that crossing a large boats bow wave at full speed in an open boat is a corking way of getting a free shower ::)
Well, that's the tale. You lot got any advice pour moi? Specifically on the fishing bit... I'm OK with driving the boat now. I find that wearing dark glasses and tapping the water in front of the boat with a white stick usually makes most other boats give way to you. This little trick is an adaptation of the one I use whilst driving ;)
So, any advice on boat fishing??
Cheers!!
R
Shiver me matey's! Weigh the mizzen beam and heave the starb'rd boom ter the splice.
Haarrr!
Yep, it's true. Not satisfied with feeding bait to tiny bream from the shore, I've done got meself a boat from which to feed bait to tiny bream whilst afloat.
For the love of God!!
It's not much of a boat, it must be said. It's a white one. It floats in shallow water as long as the bottom is resting on a sandbank. It's got a pointy bit on the front and a whizzy sort of egg-beater thing on the flat end, which looks handy. Might use it to mow the lawn when I'm not on the river.
Anyway, they said I had to get a bit of paper saying I was licensed to drive a boat. This makes a change from the usual bit of paper I have to get, which says I'm licensed to leave the grounds of the institution... don't get many of those and usually only on Abu Dhabi State public holidays. Such is me lot.
Off I toddle to the very nice people at the Waterworks Office. Apparently, I needed to answer some questions and they'd give me a license. Not too sure if "I'll give you a licence if you take me to bed and make me howl like a dingo" is an official test question, but that's the only one the nice lady behind the counter asked before she gave me me licence. That happens a lot to Render - it's a curse of the Adonis genes I was handed down :(
So, one satisifed Aussie Cheryl later, I'm legally allowed out on the wet stuff, driving me own boat. Oy vey! I cracked a bottle of 4X over the pointy bit, named it 'Ying Tong Iddile I Boat' and shoved off. I came back later and the boat was still there, so I got in and went for a drive ;D
Gents, a wiser man than me once said "The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know" or better written words to that effect. How right he was. (Or she was... it could have been a she... I don't want to be sexist... one should never be sexist, 'cause tarts hate that).
I head out to the middle of the river and several things occur to me, more or less simultaneously. It occurred to me that I had not a Scooby how to actually drive a boat, having never done it and having stolen, erm.. passed me licence in NSW. It occurred to me that having finally worked out how to make the pointy bit on the front go left and right that I had NFI where or how to go about catching fishies from a boat. Different kettle of fish from the shore, pun intended.
Finally it occurred to me that crossing a large boats bow wave at full speed in an open boat is a corking way of getting a free shower ::)
Well, that's the tale. You lot got any advice pour moi? Specifically on the fishing bit... I'm OK with driving the boat now. I find that wearing dark glasses and tapping the water in front of the boat with a white stick usually makes most other boats give way to you. This little trick is an adaptation of the one I use whilst driving ;)
So, any advice on boat fishing??
Cheers!!
R