Excuse swmbo will beleiveUrgent!!Is my keel at risk being aground?

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I set off this time to quickly,i was surprised on arrival at the things i couldent find,one of them was my Visa card.

When i went to the capitanerie to pay i gave them my visa which to my shock had expired.I was sure i had the new one??Thats the trouble with being economically challenged i hadent used it this year.

I sent an sms to Stella (swmbo)to post my new card to me.She replied that they would bring it!A good excuse to spend a week or to and enjoy a sail two boats will be arriving soon!Help!!

At about the same time i found a card from Valerie my Dentist who is staying at her sisters weekend house as she dose most years at this time.She had looked for me in the usual place. She knows i have a new "yacht"and found it,to her surprise,when shopping in the main town.It was she that has now paid my charges

She left a note, we met for coffee.I explained i had many things to do while hear.Hopefully i might fit a small engine?Or even get the existing one going??Though i dont think it will happen,as there isent a suitable payable engine even in Pisa where they can be found.

Up to this point life was wonderful as it often is,povety removes the need to look for new boats or equipment!

I have been visiting s--- (short for she)We have know each other forever,it was perhaps due to her i become a liveaboard,her parents have a small title but no money when her parents met one of my fathers "woman"they decided i would not be a rich catch and took s-- off to Italy to be sold to the highest bidder!(that was my description)

I was taken (by force i agreed to go along if we stopped to eat well and overnight rather than an unpleasant time) to Lisbon and left,they correctly imagined it would take me about 8 weeks to get back.There i met Domenic a girl from Waloonia whos parents had moved into Flanders she speaking only French had suffered and then as shortly was to befall me she was abandoned her degree in art finnished she was left to do the best she could

She had met a Frenchman and together they went to Portugal he left her she found work at the local theater.Up to then i thought that truly beautiful girls had a wonderful life,it was a shock to find that thats not always the case!

Then woman working in Portugal would be paid from whatevers left over,the director manager got their salary then the male staff in order of possition what if any cash was left was divided amongst the woman.

We found a comfortable old hotel in Sintra where we lived untill the Consulate received money form my father,in those days the forign office was very efficent!My father had read the note id writen and had been incenced that a poor family so low down in the order could do such a thing to the next in line and his only son!

For once he sent enough for a first class train ticket and more than enought to live for a year at that time in Portugal!Even the consul was surprised.I was amazed,i gave most of it to Domenic who went back to share a flat with her girl freind.When i reterned i was handed a cheque and told to "leave" (in an unpleasent way)My father had forgoten about me once again.

This then is s--- we meet when we can her husband has others as he travels.

I left the port i told s-- that i had to because i couldent pay,and refused her offer.To her i can be open but in the past shes said how weak men are??That of course is just woman thoughts!!We cant see each other every day,sometimes she has engagements or i.

Valeries arrival was a chance to talk i want to ask her about a new system for capping a tooth she wants to do a crown but then shes not equipped with the latest system which she says is to expensive.

Life should now be perfect!Invited to eat every day.

Stellas arrival will be a disaster!She may well stay aboard the other boat which is an 18m which offers more room.They will be anchored and come in with the tender so Stella will use "our" yacht as a day boat!I will have to be present with no time to enjoy other hospitality

What excuse can i give for not only not being there but not returning to see her????????????????????????????????????,

At the moment im ready to say ive gone up the Arno to look at an engine,then that ive gone down to Civitavecchia to look at another no one will believe me but it gives an element of credibility

I need a reason to be absent for about two weeks the difficulty is the time a week i can be away (in or near Marina di campo!Hidden)but two weeks!!! what excuse can i give for such a long and sudden absense???The others will enjoy the break with or without me im just the excuse,which is quite the useual way to do things in winter.

How do woman become swmbo and strike fear into humble man???

I have come accross the bay to a shallow port about 20cms less than my depth.I blew across the mud then with sail down ive dug in but still im on the keel can sitting in mud/sand damage the keel?Theres no wash or swell to pound at least not yet.

Im sitting on a cafè terrass with an a bottle of "est est est" & SSB trancever(a very small QRP SCG-2020 which i found secondhand for 80€ it dident work hence the price i replaced the power plug now its great with a lidle power cube 20€)Im waiting, at a certain point theyll call me in CW ill reply my CW is good but its a reason to be breif!What should be my first reply???

Note: The SGC 2020 is a small but very good SSB in case anyone finds one as i did it will put out 20w which is no good for voice but amazing for CW which needs only a watt or two to get a 5-7-9 !! Its sensitivity is better than one licenced amaters that posts as its selectivity & intermodulation

Help what can i say??And will my keel survive the hard mud sand???

Life for the economically challenged becomes more challenging!
 
Dear Damo i wish you were such a simple woman!Oh that that were to be!Thoght then what a bore you'd be

These are woman that LISTEN!worse they THINK! They also trust!What i ask has to have a reasonable chance!
Today i could say anything and be beleived butnot tomorow or even an hour laterrr, woman.

A woman (The woman im often with) will listen to what i say today & accept it, later if its not a credible & reasonable excuse,will cause great distress

Im dealing with really intelligent and intuitive woman.

I send letters by post to s--- & she to me as email & sms is a great risk.I know when theres a letter for me at the post restant just as she knows,even when we havent writen to each other for several months. S-- simply sends thoughts and reads mine.With her i have no fear. Her husband yes! Even then not if we are discreat today.
 
I wouldn't worry about the mud, based on the few details you have supplied. Of more concern is the deep s##t you are digging into with an intuitive and intelligent woman who can read your thoughts.

The major problem with the mud is that if the tide is low and you need to sail away from this woman then your window of
escape will be limited.

Bon chance mon ami!
 
Gosh!Indeed woman are perceptive,Stella could well become a good freind of Trouville someone he respects.He looks for as a crew aboard a trusted freind.Im sure he would never "give" her to anyone,woman are independant
 
Many, many years ago I simply devoured every book I could find in the library written by long distance singlehanded sailors; there are too many to name but some remain in mind as extraordinary people whose stories, had they not been proven, were simply incredible.

The obvious ones, for me, are Moitessier for his gruelling saga, Joshua Slocum of course for his spiritual experiences too, and one other, whose name escapes me for the moment- a Swiss whose exploits were surreal and included many sexual encounters in foreign ports ( I like to believe they were real).

Then of course there is Tristan Jones, whose stories are hilarious, extraordinary and the stuff of folklore.

Dear Trouville, in my opinion, your tales are every bit as engaging, captivating and lead to my great envy of even the hardships you relate. I just hope that sometime all of your exploits can be turned to your advantage, as I feel you have a book, or three in you
 
Sadly its all true sometimes i change rain for sun, wind as its best the food & wine are rather more exaxxct

My son gave me a cookbook with my receipts i use to use food found at the end of markets and such things as spinich,which he watched me wash then he washed again.He emptied the tanks.when i look at the photos of me washing cloths then my son helping!

Then we had an East Anglian sloop with small tanks.The time of children had arrived

I bought a hillyard 40 a 12 tonner with a transum that was populair but they pr

Then they put up with the Hillyard untill i bought my FB

Its very hard for economically challeneged to sail today

A book?We printed the cookbook with old fashioned lithography Ill do my best to write the dreadful exploits of a destitute liveaboard hardships & all it cost about 2€ a book child labour free!!

See what i can do.Ill send you a copy as soon as its done,the problem with life at sea is it might name so many that are still living though mostly in houses gotten from ill gained profits(though the directors of northen rock were given £millions bonus by tony blair errr the presnt prim minister after the run on the bank!!that wouldent have happened in New york)
 
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Oh so very true
Trouville , as usual I open one of your threads and like a good book , I can't put it down
My advice would be to tell such an unbelievable lie that she will be totally lost for an answer , then when you get together you can tell her that you were trying to find something extra special for her but that you failed miserably
The fact that you told her such an unbelievable lie just proves that you are a terrible liar so therefore more trustworthy
Not that it's the sort of thing I would try /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Not with my current wife anyway /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
The one thing i advise anyone against is lying, womam see through such fragile tales at once.

An excuse has to have a sound basis.I could say ive been seduced by a wonderful woman?That would be believed but three woman would be there to see what had happened???Perhaps i wont try

I just dont know what to say??I realy dont i have my SSB ive sent "-" nothing i hope i have another day,Ill call to ask if the others have stopped over for sunday bbq and wine?? (Just after Menton)with the mafia capitain that dose not like me!I still goin as the others do!I only stay during the day,i take some bottles with me and leave before dark such is the life of the very poor
 
Trouville - all you need to do is cut and paste your posts over the last couple of years into a book of some sort. I would gladly pay a decent sum to have them all together in a book I can read again and again when I need inspriration.

If I knew any publishers or printers I would even do it for you!!

Keep the posts coming.
Steve
 
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When I first started to read this post my thoughts were along the lines of "Another poor fool whose brain goes to sleep when his cock stands up" but I can see you like adventure and excitement, and beautiful women 'bien sur' and now with this comment I see that you are also a clever clever man. I wish I was or had been as adventurous as you obviously are, Bon Chance my friend, and do tell us what happens.

Mal
 
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