Re: [Paddlewise] Cockpit Varmits

From: Philip Torrens <skerries_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:37:56 PST
1. Caught a racoon in our headlamps one night as he started to reach into 
the hatches of our double. Like an escapee caught in the searchlights, he 
simply adopted an innocent "Who - me?" expression.

2. (Self inflicted). A decade ago in the Queen Charlottes, I caught a 
rockfish. I coshed him with a stick, and having nowhere on deck to store 
him, I popped my sprayskirt and dropped him below decks. Returning to camp 
involved running some small surf. As I braced sideways on a wave, my dinner 
guest decided he wasn't quite dead, and splayed his needles into my inner 
legs. It's hard to concentrate on the finer points of bracing while being 
tattoed on the thighs!

Philip Torrens
N49°16' W123°06'


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