My Woman is a Nautical BAD Ass
Ellen is amazing and a nuatical BAD-Ass
My water-woman, Ellen, is a Nautical Bad-Ass. Today she proved it again. We were running long lines between two shores in a narrow inlet on Paxos Island in Greece. The winds were blowing 10-20 knots and we had maybe 80-100 feet between the two shorelines.
Ellen jumped overboard to run the two lines from Golden Glow to the two shores. The shores were razor sharp, jagged limestone to make her job a little more interesting. She secured Golden Glow while I was keeping the boat safely off the rocks on each side. When we finally left the inlet she, again, swam like a Navy SEAL between each shore and freed the lines, I reflected on how Bad Ass my water woman is and then started singing to her in rhymes as I do sometimes. Here is the poem that celebrates my water-woman Nautical Bad-Ass, as paraphrased from my impromptu singing. She is one N-B-A!
My Water-woman is one Nautical Bad-Ass
My woman is a Nautical Bad Ass
Like a Navy SEAL: she is first class
She takes sailing problems to task
and serves me coffee with a flask.
My sailing partner is #1: the best
She eats spinach for breakfast
Popeye has her name tattooed on his chest
In 15 foot seas she reads books below-deck.
My woman is the Admiral of our fleets
With her tongue she ties off cleats
Barehanded she brings in the sheets
and takes on Force 9 while she tweets.
My luscious gal is the Pirate Queen
No badder-ass have I ever seen
She keeps the boat sparkling clean
And is the answer to all of my dreams.
My co-captain of the seven seas
Must be Neptune’s beloved niece
She drives Golden Glow with ease
As we midnight med-moor in Greece.
My sailing woman is most courageous
She wakes up each morning drop-dead gorgeous
Her laughter is internationally contagious
The fish she catches are outrageous.
My water-woman is a Nautical BAD Ass.
She does an amazing weather forecast
She charts a course with panache
and whips-up 4 courses in a flash.
My water-woman is a Nautical BAD Ass.
We are very lucky men … My indescribably beautiful Sharon is also a NBA !
where can I find one like Ellen
Hey Peter.
Took me 46 years so not sure I would be any help on that.
Yesterday on the hard, she was upside down cleaning rust out of the anchor locker while I was replacing some anchor chain.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Rand