“I like bikini bottom girls and I can not lie. “
Or not bikini'd bottom girls
.
Despite my NOT getting the chance to do anything with my boat. SBO helped, both by keeping me dreaming and getting me connected with a room swap in Scotland
that was actually a chance to spend nearly a week on a sailboat in a country I'd never been to before. Scotland was fantastic
(maybe not the driving, though) and our host and his boat, a H42 Passage named Casper
, were wonderfully accommodating and more than gracious.
Near our last day, the flood gates on the protected harbor failed and Casper didn't even let out a whimper sitting squarely on her keel while other boats fell against their dockage.
They got the gates fixed hours later and the next tide returned everyone to normal.
We even had great weather but there were one or two with typical Scottish weather that the Scots kept apologizing for
.
I even found a William Gilmore listed among a group of prisoners in the Wig Vault
at Dunnottar Castle. He was shipped off to the West Indies but apparently landed in New England, if he was one of the survivors.
Not the story of my family's immagration, but very interesting.
-Will (Dragonfly)