The Literotica Olympics
Event: Sailing
SHIP'S LOG
Open 49er | #665 - Team Scandinavia | I. M. Liar,
skipper
; Nicola BluePen,
crew
- Wed 1 Sep 2004 14:05:00 [Final Regatta]
Position: 37Β° 48.189' N 23Β° 40.031' E; mainsail; 0.2 kt 17ΒΊ T
The air is stilled. It doesn't even feel like real, breathable, air. It burns, a searing breath of fire that comes in silent waves and suffocates us from within, and crawls underneath our skin.
There are no clouds. The sky, as a kaleidoscope of reflections that paints the void in splashes of pearl, as a celestial window, a glimpse at something more, a towering, terrible beauty, lingers eerily untainted by a single string of white.
The sun shines down on us with all its strength, relentless, burns through my skin, evaporates my sweat before it forms. It just stays there, hanging in the sky, refusing to move, to tone down the intensity of its torture.
It slows down time itself.
Minutes ago - it feels like hours - the last wind flogged our sails, and since then the sea has only grown calmer, the wind going from erratically weak to non existent. The Aegean now resembles a continuous cerulean sheet, evenly spread out in every direction.
Any headway being made is riding on pure momentum.
Until the wind returns, we're little more than high tech flotsam. All we can do is wait.
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SHIP'S LOG
Open 49er | #155 - Team Canada | Charley H.,
skipper
; Rebecca Leah,
crew
- Wed 1 Sep 2004 14:15:00 [Final Regatta]
Position: 37Β° 48.188' N 23Β° 40.030' E
We had just entered the shoals when, all of a sudden, I felt my ears popping with the change of pressure. The wind died - just like that - the mainsail deflated, the boat - by design usually completely overpowered and almost uncontrollable β stopped.
My first reaction - unfair, I don't need anyone telling me - was to look at Rebecca. What the fuck did she do now? Yes, unfair, but she had already cost us some time.
Before the wind fell, we were slightly off course and well behind the other teams, all because she doesn't have a clue about what she's supposed to do aboard. I doubt she has ever been on a boat before, but does she admit it? Yeah, right.
I'm starting to wonder - well, not really, but you know - if it was such a great idea to select an American for the team. She's stubborn, opinionated, rebellious, way too young-
Hm.
Well, to be honest, I didn't exactly choose her for of her sailing expertise...
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SHIP'S LOG
Open 49er | #245 - Team U.S.A. | Sea Cat,
skipper
; Claire Blossom,
crew
- Wed 1 Sep 2004 14:20:00 [Final Regatta]
Position: 37Β° 48.191' N 23Β° 40.032' E
I think we're slightly ahead in the race, and damn, it feels good. There's no wind, so our lead doesn't seem likely to increase anytime soon, but on the other hand, I don't see how anyone could catch up with us.
Everything was going smoothly before the sudden weather change. We managed to keep the wind ahead, reacted fast to any shift, and rounded the first buoy with haste.
Up 'til now, Claire has been instrumental in our performance. 49ers are such demanding bitches, that without her help I wouldn't have had a chance. I don't think she has that much seafaring experience, but she's a quick learner if I ever saw one, and follows every instruction I give her promptly and without questions.
She's just so eager.
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SHIP'S LOG
Open 49er | #155 - Team Canada | Charley H.,
skipper
; Rebecca Leah,
crew
- Wed 1 Sep 2004 14:55:00 [Final Regatta]
Position: 37Β° 48.188' N 23Β° 40.030' E
I'm keeping my cool. Not letting it get to me. Showing no emotion. All I need to do is to stare at her and she knows. She can feel my eyes burning through her.
Rebecca is like a child, prancing around the boat, supple and lithe and sexy and
absolutely oblivious
to what she's doing! She just can't stand still, and this hull is so unstable without wind that we almost flipped twice already.
I tell her to furl up the jib, and she stares back at me with those big innocent eyes, like a little girl who knows she has been caught. I tell her to freshen the nip of the port stay, and she just blushes furiously and tangles another two lines together.
Seriously, I swear half the knots of the rig were made by her tripping over the lines. If she doesn't get her act together quickly, I'm going to have to teach her a thing or two.
I stare at her, coolly.
But inside - inside I am grinning.
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SHIP'S LOG
Open 49er | #245 - Team U.S.A. | Sea Cat,
skipper
; Claire Blossom,
crew
- Wed 1 Sep 2004 15:25:00 [Final Regatta]
Position: 37Β° 48.191' N 23Β° 40.032' E
There's something about Claire. I mean, beyond her bright and breezy ways, her outgoing nature, and her drop dead gorgeous body, there's a raw, sexual energy that I hadn't seen before.
Maybe energy isn't the right word.
That eagerness I'd noted before, there's more to it than meets the eye. A very slight but noticeable shift in her, every time I brush past. Her body tenses up, her breath catches in her throat. She always looks straight ahead, as if ready to spring into action at my order. I can tell her heart is racing during those few seconds.
And after that, the way she looks to and addresses me, "