Dog’s tail wagging
My wife and I went out for a relaxing sail today. The wind
was about two or three knots at the most so we were going only about one knot
faster than the river was going down stream. We went out to relax and just
enjoy the warm sunny day. As we were moving up river slowly, a kayaker came out
of an oxbow and was fast overtaking us.
The dog saw the kayaker first and started moving around the
boat almost prancing. As the kayaker got closer the dog started wagging his
tail. The closer the kayaker got the more the dog wagged his tail with
excitement. Just as the kayaker got alongside the wind picked up just a little
and we started to sail at the same speed as the kayaker was moving at. He
looked over and said he was surprised that the dog wagging his tail like that
could increase our boats speed that much. My wife replied that on the average,
his tail wagging could increase the speed by a ½ to one knot depending on how
excited he got, but we could not always count on him. We all got a smile out of
it, and the kayaker paddled away leaving us in his wake.
I will have to work that one up into a tale for telling to
kids. With the right embellishment, I may be able to get some mileage out of
it. The trick is to have a story that lets a sea dog save the day with his tail
wagging. Kids love it when a dog saves the day. I tell the little kids I was a
cabin boy on Capt. Hook’s ship and learned to sail on his ship, and I helped
work on Capt. Nemo’s sub on an island in the South Seas when I got older. The
worst part is the younger kids don’t know who Capt. Hook and Capt. Nemo are.
When they ask, I tell them to ask their parents because they were scary, and I
didn’t think I should tell them about people like that. Or they could Google
them, and what is really scary, they know what that means. I guess I am just an
old sea dog getting older and I am still looking for Fiddlers Green. I wonder
if I can find a compass that will point me to Fiddlers Green. I wonder if Capt.
Jack Sparrow’s magic compass could find Fiddlers Green. Maybe I could Google
it?
I could call the story something like: Sea Dog Bosco and His
Fan Tail. Now the hard part…fabricate a good sea tail. 8-)
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