Verdigre Creek Journal

Captain Dave Trimble met me outside the Dana Landing Market.  I had been applying sun screen; my hands were covered with SPF 50.  Rather than shaking hands, we bumped knuckles.  He asked me if I had gotten a sandwich yet for lunch and directed me to the Market.  He had some things to load on the boat.

I picked up my sandwich and made my way down to the boat.

Dave allowed that the boat was somewhat smelly.  He had cleaned the bilge out with bleach and green solution but the smell of day old chum still lingered.  He pointed me to the boat.

“Dry storage in the bow, port side.  Cooler’s in the stern, port.  Watch your nose,”  he said as he loaded chum into the wheel barrow.

I struggled to remember that the bow was the front and that the port was the left.  I thought that it would be too presumptuous to say “Ay, Cap’n.”

The Chum was caught the day before on the Impulse.

On to Part III

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