Our Colombian friend David has been a welcome addition to the Brawler. He is a good guy but more importantly he is adept at losing items overboard. I am therefore able to practise my man overboard drills without the loss of life. Last time out he lost the BBQ regulator and propane canister. I was able to rescue the BBQ items but Bereza lost his favourite monkey blanket in the attempt.
Yesterday was a more serious rescue. The rear door was left open, one of the tasks that The Captain while ultimately responsible leaves for his crew. The failure of the crew members to close the door led to the small cooler flying out of the rear of the boat at warp speed when I put the Brawler into gear. Now this was David's personal cooler so the worst case would have been his raiding other people's beer from the main cooler.
I was able to perform precise manoeuvres and rescue the floating cooler. In all the excitement of rescuing the beer I lost track of the number of crew members. I'm pretty sure everyone was accounted for, I just had this nagging suspicion that we were a little light on the number of passengers after the incident. If anyone has seen Bereza can you let me know, just in case. If he is missing on Monday I'm not admitting he was ever onboard.
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