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Celebrate - "Story Time" entry from NEXUS



For our evening story time contest using boat names in a story, I received the following entry from NEXUS. Hilarious if you knew the situations!

Here's a story for the call from the crew of NEXUS;

Tom was perplexed when he called Russ on the VHF after another yacht GHOSTED by him in the dark. "The way they keep up with us in light winds using no engine hours just makes my POLARIS go BOINGO if you know what I mean!" "I hear that, its either MERLYN's magic or some SWEET PEARL of wisdom that eludes us" said Russ. "I think we need to apply some good old AMERICAN SPIRIT of ingenuity to this problem and get right to its NEXUS". It's some kind of DARWINian evolution in sailing theory he thought to himself. He sat back in the helm seat and stared up at ANDROMEDA in the night sky. He was amused by the irony of of the bright star ALPHERATZ staring back at him from her forehead. He went deep into thought on the matter...or perhaps he was just sleeping. Suddenly he exclaimed "SHAYA MOYA! I've got it!" He called Tom back and outlined his thinking; "They're running their engines backward with propeller in reverse pitch! That way they make diesel and produce engine hour credits while they run! They both called Tim to CELEBRATE their breakthrough thinking and explained their solution. Tim immediately saw the FOLLY A DEUX before him, but he played along anyway, as he observed dryly; "Well with that logic, all I need to do is sail backward and I get my handicap credits back as well!"

Yeah I know, it's really lame!

Warmest Regards,
Russ
S/V NEXUS




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