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Comfortably Numb Adventures: Company With a Purpose
Date: 8/29/2015, Categories: Straight Sex, Author: captainfred, Rating: 12, Source: LushStories
My name is Fred. Captain Fred sounds nice to me. I’m not actually a Captain, just a captain. I live on my sailboat, named ‘Comfortably Numb’, my retirement home in the Aegean Sea. Other stories in this series contain enough biographical information, so I won’t bore you again. Occasionally I place a classified ad hoping for paying charter guests. My normal motivation is that I want to buy something totally frivolous and unnecessary, usually some sort of electronic gadget – a UHD TV comes to mind. So far I’ve been pretty lucky; none of the half-dozen charters that I’ve hosted have been people that I would have wanted to drop off in mid-sea. Having arrogant, demanding guests that expect me to wait on them would probably be good to teach me some much-needed humility, but so far I’ve been lucky. Recently I received an email query from a couple about a week’s charter. I was surprised, as I hadn’t placed an ad. It got me thinking about that UHD TV, though. The letter was signed 'Mandy and Bob Rogers'. They specified that they wanted to be somewhere where there would not be big winds or rough seas. That’s a bit of a tall order in the Aegean in the summer. The northerly Meltemi winds blow hard for periods from two to six days - usually several six day contiguous periods. Going downwind, south, is usually no problem, most people think it’s euphoric, but upwind is pure torture in anything smaller than the QE2. Well, I don’t like it, anyway. I had planned to meet a friend on the ...