Biker Night

Thursday was another day of working on the boat . . . enough said about that!  But we can report the weather remains wonderful, always in the 70s during daytime hours, though forecast to hit 81 on Friday, with a possible afternoon thunderstorm. Here’s a photo from yesterday of a porpoise surfing our bow wake.

Late Thursday afternoon, Captains Chris and Alyse, who keep their boat moored 4 slips  from where we’re located, invited everyone to join them on “Sandy Hook” for cocktail hour.  So 11 of us, including the Managing Editor of Passagemaker magazine, a delightful 27-year-old woman, convened on their boat, along with Bert, their huge, friendly, well-behaved 8-month-old Labradoodle, for drinks and boating stories. Later (like 8:00, almost our bedtime) most of us headed downtown for Biker Night and dinner.

Every Thursday the City of Fort Pierce closes off two streets to all traffic, a DJ sets up his equipment and blasts music, a beer stand is set up, and hundreds of bikers converge on the area to wander around in their leathers and show off their big, shiny bikes.  From the looks of most of the “bikers” we saw, many of them probably spent their younger years in a corporate environment.  Lots of second childhoods.

It was great fun to walk the crowd for 45 minutes while we waited for a table at Lorenzo’s where we subsequently had a fabulous Italian meal and LOTS of garlic! We expect to return for more Biker Night fun in the future.

Now Bob Understands

As many of you know, the idea that we should  do the Loop was originally Cathryn’s.  Bob took his time agreeing to the venture and had his “conditions”.

What Bob didn’t understand was that Cathryn had an ulterior motive to the Loop idea.  During our training with Chris and Alyse, they repeatedly stressed that it was important to ALWAYS let the other person know what you’re doing and where you are on the boat (to prevent a Man-Overboard from going unnoticed, among other things; this actually happened once to our friend Jim R).  They taught us to use their phrase to let the other one know when we need to hear a “status update”.

So, now Cathryn can say to Bob “TALK TO ME”, without Bob thinking we’re on our way to a marriage counselor.