Selene
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 11
UTAustin Sailing Club is a function of The University of Texas at Austin. The club is intramural with several fieldtrips. The school supplied the boats. UTAustin had a number of Sunfish and a couple of Lasers.
I rode the bus to the interview.
“Do you have any experience?” asked the interviewer.
“What do you mean?” I said.
“Ever sailed?”
“Yes.”
“What boat?”
“Boats. Not Boat ... boats. Plural.” I grinned.
“Ok ... what boats?”
“3.7 Farr, Farr 48, Custom 65 catamaran, Fountaine Pajot Samana 59, Custom 90 catamaran. What?”
“90?”
“Yeah ... my granddad has it in Fiji ... the Fountaine Pajot is there, too. Oh, yeah ... forgot ... a Lagoon 42 on the hard in Houston ... well ... Galveston. The Farr 48 is laid up in Brisbane, Australia. The Farr 3.7 is here.”
“Fiji ... Fiji? ... FIJI! Your granddad is Professor JW Flintkote!”
“Well, yah ... there aren’t a lot of Flintkotes ... we’re a rare breed.”
“You said the 3.7 is here ... where here?”
“My house by the river,” I said.
“You have waterfront property?”
“Sorta...”
“Sorta?”
“Daddy and I lease the land ... we own the almost house.”
“Almost house?”
“We share it with the airplane,” I said. “Look ... it’s complicated ... why don’t you come look?”
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