re: 17 year old boat cruise.

That was an entertaining read, quite.  Your wordsmithery is nearly unsurpassed - Nick Cave might give you some competition, but moodier.  Now I wont find it necessary to continue with my slow IV-drip perusal of Father Malachi Martin´s Windswept House, for a couple days, at least.  I think you are probably funnier too.  Those Priests are always so sober and austere when fictioning unhumorous goings on in the knocking shop- tican and dispelling terminological inexactitudes.