Timbeck2
Final Approach
Anyone ever heard of this? On a recent charter on Lake Ontario we were getting bounced pretty good by 4-5 foot waves. The big cooler behind the captain was bouncing towards the back of the boat so he turned around to pull it back up front when he noticed a bag and picked it up. When he noticed that there were bananas in the bag he throttled back to neutral and asked, "Who brought these bananas on the boat?" I know that it wasn't me, so I said nothing. My friend Steve admitted that he brought them on. Now when we boarded the boat there was a sign above the captain's chair which had a bunch of bananas with the red circle and line through it. I thought nothing of it since I didn't bring bananas, Steve thought that it was a joke. Apparently it wasn't because the captain seemed pretty ****ed. "You guys need to get these off the boat, either eat them now or throw them overboard, didn't you see that sign?" We had already caught five of the nine lake trout with the forbidden fruit on the boat but that didn't matter. Steve threw the bananas overboard.
I had never heard of this superstition; the nautical equivalent of breaking a mirror or walking under a ladder.
I had never heard of this superstition; the nautical equivalent of breaking a mirror or walking under a ladder.
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