jolly roger

[Miss Ivy 2]

this is a excursion you will not forget I went on the 4th of july and had a blast free flowing rum punch just a good time

highly reccomend if your looking to have fun

[Aplmac]

this is a excursion you will not forget

I went on the 4th of July and had a blast

free flowing rum punch - just a good time

highly reccommended, if you're looking to have fun

I used to work for awhile, on Jolly Roger (doing the picture-keyrings thing)

so I've seen a few Rum Punch mishaps in my time.

 

Saw one guy who thoroughly overdid it, taken off like a sack of potatoes!

One guy held his feet, another guy held his hands..

and he was slung off the boat.

Probably woke up next day, wishing he were dead,

or at least feeling that way!

 

Now. LISTEN to the Captain's instructions regarding Rum Punch usage!

If you were paying attention, you'd have heard him say to pack your glass with ice,

and then fill the glass(the spaces between the ice) with Rum Punch.

He's not kidding you!

 

Why not?

Because the stuff is lethal!

For those of us who board before you tourists,

we get to see how they fill those cute Rum Punch barrels, prior to the cruise!

 

Head Barman comes along with two bottles of equal volume.

One contains the fruit punch content,

the other contains pure Rum.

He sticks a funnel in the bung-hole in top of the barrel

and slooshes the contents of both bottles, simultaneously,

into the Rum Punch barrel that you'll be tapping, in an hour's time.

The stuff mixes as it goes in.

 

Ergo: Jolly Roger Rum Punch is HALF RUM. Got it?

Now do you understand why the captain warns you

to fill the cracks between your ice, with their Rum Punch?

He's doing it for your own good, and because he likes your brain cells

- perhaps more than you do!

 

By all means enjoy yourselves, but go easy on the Rum Punch.

Believe me. I live here!

[ndavis7515]

Aplmac, I have a question for you.

 

In 2004 I went on the Jolly Roger and we stopped at a Pier with water sports and in 2005 we didn't. They told me the weather prohibited them from stopping at the other place. Do you know what the other place was? It had a bar and a nice beach. The second place had only vendors walking on the beach.

 

Thanks

[Aplmac]

In 2004 I went on the Jolly Roger and we stopped at a Pier with water sports

and in 2005 we didn't.

They told me the weather prohibited them from stopping at the other place.

Do you know what the other place was?

It had a bar and a nice beach.

The second place had only vendors walking on the beach.

I'm guessing that the place with a pier that they went to because of weather considerations

was BOATYARD's pier, in Carlisle Bay (a fairly modern concrete pier, with an upward 'hump' in it?)

- they woulda done that because maybe a winter North Swell was rolling down the West Coast,

causing problems for comfortable sailing and certainly for any kinda going ashore!

Let me guess, this was during the winter months? Nov. - March?

(that's when those winter swells come rolling down

and just trash the normally-idyllic sea conditions on the W.Coast,

but just for a day or two)

 

So, to answer your second bit... that "other place" that you guys didn't get to go,

was no doubt a West Coast destination

(the usual route, once that N.Swell ain't running too bad)

and was prob. HOLETOWN,halfway up the W.Coast...their usual stop,

where they have their own special mooring anchorage arrangement.

 

Truth is that whatever route they take, they look to show you a good time,

but for goodness sake, follow the Capt's advice and pack that glass with ice,

before you fill in the spaces with Rum Punch.

As I've posted before, I used to work for awhile on the Jolly Roger,

and have seen people virtually incapacitated

because they overdid the deadly Rum Punch,

which is (I'm not kidding you) 50% Rum !!

Be Warned!