bracketracer
Active Member
- Aug 23, 2016
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- Boat Info
- 2001 380DA
Fully updated Raymarine MFDs, Quantum radar, full LED lighting conversion, and lots more.
- Engines
- Twin 454 Horizons
So, I'm sure a few of you folks browse reddit, and may know about the TIFU (think I "fouled" up) subreddit. Stories of shame and screwups, often using burner accounts to protect the stupid and clueless. I'll go ahead and put my TIFU right out there.
This is the first year with our big boat at my marina. There is a core group of guys on our floating T-dock. 5 to be exact. 2 Sea Rays, mine and my marina owner's 370 open fishing boat, and 3 Tiara's. These guys are fishing freaks. I don't fish (but I'm sure I'll get roped into it). Gotten to be friends with all of them and wives in very short order. Weekend dock parties and gatherings are the norm. We'll spend at least part of one day out in the lake rafted up, hanging out.
Few weeks ago, one of the guys asked if we wanted to do a few day trip to the new Port of Rochester. Yep, we're in. Now this guy is known for some crazy loud board/swim trunks. So, I'm on a mission to get some to replace my boring ones. Got a few from Amazon, good to go. Had a great few days in Rochester. The trip out was pretty hairy though. He's running an earlier Tiara 3600 open, I'm in my boat. We get there without incident though.
Had a great weekend, yadda yadda yadda.
Came back Sunday. Put on my last pair of stupid shorts. We're docked platform to platform so we were constantly going back and forth. I go walk over to their boat in these.
They chuckle a bit, and go on with getting ready to head back to home port. I get my boat ready and we're off. Get back to home port. Most of the regulars are there, folks (me included) are walking boat to boat, grazing on snacks and drinks. Get home that evening. Wife and I are on the screen porch chatting about the weekend, and she tells me about the banana superstition.
http://www.snopes.com/luck/superstition/bananas.asp
Excerpt: "
In 2001 The New York Times quoted Rick Etzel of Montauk, New York, captain of The Breakaway, as saying: “Fishermen believe bananas are bad luck. Something about a shipload of bananas that carried some weird bacteria which killed everyone on board. Maybe fictitious, but some people take the banana thing very seriously. A few years back, a guy on one of my charters showed up wearing a Banana Republic T-shirt. Another guy in the group went up to him with a knife and slashed the logo.”
Our friend's boat....
However, seeing as that we're all still friends, and my boat hasn't been moved to another part of the marina, I suppose no harm, no foul.
Feel free to post up your own TIFU
This is the first year with our big boat at my marina. There is a core group of guys on our floating T-dock. 5 to be exact. 2 Sea Rays, mine and my marina owner's 370 open fishing boat, and 3 Tiara's. These guys are fishing freaks. I don't fish (but I'm sure I'll get roped into it). Gotten to be friends with all of them and wives in very short order. Weekend dock parties and gatherings are the norm. We'll spend at least part of one day out in the lake rafted up, hanging out.
Few weeks ago, one of the guys asked if we wanted to do a few day trip to the new Port of Rochester. Yep, we're in. Now this guy is known for some crazy loud board/swim trunks. So, I'm on a mission to get some to replace my boring ones. Got a few from Amazon, good to go. Had a great few days in Rochester. The trip out was pretty hairy though. He's running an earlier Tiara 3600 open, I'm in my boat. We get there without incident though.
Had a great weekend, yadda yadda yadda.
Came back Sunday. Put on my last pair of stupid shorts. We're docked platform to platform so we were constantly going back and forth. I go walk over to their boat in these.
They chuckle a bit, and go on with getting ready to head back to home port. I get my boat ready and we're off. Get back to home port. Most of the regulars are there, folks (me included) are walking boat to boat, grazing on snacks and drinks. Get home that evening. Wife and I are on the screen porch chatting about the weekend, and she tells me about the banana superstition.
http://www.snopes.com/luck/superstition/bananas.asp
Excerpt: "
In 2001 The New York Times quoted Rick Etzel of Montauk, New York, captain of The Breakaway, as saying: “Fishermen believe bananas are bad luck. Something about a shipload of bananas that carried some weird bacteria which killed everyone on board. Maybe fictitious, but some people take the banana thing very seriously. A few years back, a guy on one of my charters showed up wearing a Banana Republic T-shirt. Another guy in the group went up to him with a knife and slashed the logo.”
Our friend's boat....
However, seeing as that we're all still friends, and my boat hasn't been moved to another part of the marina, I suppose no harm, no foul.
Feel free to post up your own TIFU
