GOTCHA!

Hey Danda!
Yikes, you could be this poor girl captured by a Somali pirate. I can't imagine why she is laughing for, after all, the consequences could be dire! The good news is the pirate is Chris in his usual garb when he has had too much sun and is burnt to a crisp. He is driving the tender to ALESSANDRA, a 19' open boat which he and his friend Morgan put together. The "black boat", as it was known, sat in Morgan Avery's back yard for 3 years breeding mosquitos and languishing unfinished and unloved. That scenario is what Chris calls opportunity. Instead of buying an inflatable which cost beaucoup bucks, and as Chris was at the bottom of his barrel of doubloons, and as Morgan was going along on the Lauderdale to STT cruise, Chris convinced him to sell the hull for a song and then, like Tom Sawyer and the white picket fence, got Morgan to help give the boat new life. They put a deck on, fore and aft, sealed both ends for extra flotation, scrounged an engine, added a teak rub rail for chic, and voila! - The tender to ALESSANDRA. She can hold 8 people loaded to the gunwales. There are no seats. You just sit with your back to the side, your butt on a stringer and feet in the middle. Then you stare at each other and pray the thing won't sink. Sounds like a party, right?! It draws practically nothing, so it is great for exploring coral reefs and beaches. It only weighs 500 pounds, soaking wet, so it can be hauled up on deck with a halyard, turned over and not have to be towed. I think with a canvas cover it resembles one of Shackleton's lifeboats. Good Karma, I hope. So, if you and Julian want to be "captured" next time you are in the islands, Chris will do so, let you off on a secluded atoll and return for you in a few hours. Romance!