How is it that some guys get lucky with women all the time? For Burt Olsen, luck has nothing to do with it. In The Floating Threesome he figured out a perfect way to persuade lots of women to have sex. The story unfolds in 11 short chapters. In Chapter 6, Burt is surprised by developments in the life of his friend Jack..
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Just as I'd hoped, my plan was working. I had delivered on my promise to my friend Jack when I said we'd find ourselves "neck deep in prime pussy." After I took the first girl sailing, and got laid successfully, I went back to invite Jack to get some. "Hey buddy, how'd you like to look at some bikini pictures? I've got dozens of girls anxious to go on a cruise and suck your cock."
To my great surprise, Jack wasn't interested. "I think I'll pass," he said. "I'm seeing someone."
Although I wanted the best for Jack, and I felt he deserved love as much as anyone, people recovering from addiction are encouraged not to get into serious relationships. The idea is that they aren't emotionally ready to get involved with someone unless they'd been sober a long time. My concern increased when Jack said that the woman he was dating was someone he'd met at a 12-step program. Rehabilitation counselors say it's a very bad idea for addicts to get romantic. There's just too much chance that one could relapse and drag the other back into their addiction.
But Jack was a big boy capable of making his own decisions, so I didn't voice my fears. His therapist was surely doing that. Jack seemed to be doing pretty well, so I just decided to hope for the best.
"What's the name of the lucky girl," I said.
"Her name is Mary, and you're going to meet her soon," Jack said. "I'm going to have her come over and show her how I'm building the boat. If things work out, I might have her help me on a regular basis."
"Sounds sweet. I'm sure that spreading fiberglass epoxy can be very romantic."
Jack laughed. "Mary is a master carpenter with lots of professional experience in residential construction, including cabintry," he said. "She knows more than me about a lot of construction technology. I'm hoping she has skills that will make the boat better than it would be if I do all the work myself."
I later learned there was a factor Jack didn't mention. Mary was enrolled in the same court-ordered program as Jack. She was a convicted felon, and had to stay clean for a year to get her conviction expunged. She got fired from her job when she got arrested, and she discovered that most places won't hire convicted felons. She needed a job, and Jack wanted to give her one. The whole situation seemed dangerous to me. I was afraid something would go wrong that would endanger Jack's sobriety.
To my great relief, things worked out fine. Jack and Mary seemed to support each other's efforts to remain clean and sober. I met Mary and liked her. She was cute in a tomboy kind of way. I could see her as a woman who might gravitate to a male-dominated professional like carpentry.
I could also see that she and Jack were just crazy about each other. They spent a lot of time kissing and hugging when they were supposed to be working on the boat. But Mary seemed anxious to work the same long hours as Jack. They both needed something to occupy their time, and building an innovative new sailboat seemed like the perfect activity for both of them.
It wasn't long before Jack moved out of the camper and into Mary's apartment. They went to 12-step meetings together, reported to the same probation officer, and consistently took urine tests that proved they weren't relapsing. I was very relieved, and I became extremely fond of Mary as it became clear that she was enriching my friend's life. Jack deserved it.
This meant the boat began taking shape faster than expected. I hung a map of the Caribbean in my office and started sticking pins into the places I thought we could visit on our cruise. As time went by I became increasingly sure that Taylor would be the woman who'd travel with me. The sex with her was fabulous, and over time I saw that she would be an excellent companion during such a lengthy voyage. We'd get along fine.
She made sure I kept her in mind. Taylor started finding creative ways to remind me that she wanted the job. One day she texted me a photo of her posing in a very sexy bikini. I could tell it was just an amateur photo taken by some friend of hers, but it did the job of making her look smoking hot. "I thought this might make a good uniform for the first mate. What do you think?" she texted.
My response was this: "I need to see it in person. Can we go sailing Saturday? Sunday?"
She said "Sunday would be good!" Then she included a couple of emojis, including a smiley face blowing a kiss, a big red heart, and the thumbs up symbol. Do they make emojis of somebody getting a blowjob? If not, that seems like an oversight.
Over time, I noticed that Taylor almost always preferred to sail on Sundays. She was never available on Fridays or Saturdays. I had a feeling those days were reserved for some boyfriend. Despite the fact that we had all kinds of crazy sex whenever we got together, I never got the sense she wanted any kind of exclusive relationship. It was very clear that she wanted the modeling job, and not clear at all if she wanted anything else.
One day I got an opportunity to take Taylor sailing on one of Jack's original
Sanderling
catamarans. The owner went sailing, got good and drunk, and rammed into a peer. It threw him from the boat; his friends saved the moron from drowning. The boat is so well made it wasn't seriously damaged, but there was an ugly crack on the front of the right hull. He brought it back to us so Jack could clean out the crack, fill it with fiberglass resin, then repaint it. By the time Jack was finished, there was no sign of damage anywhere.
While we had the boat in the shop, I decided I'd use it to take Taylor sailing. I hadn't taken her out on a catamaran yet. The
Sanderling
was a tiny little boat, but it was a lot of fun, and it would help Taylor begin to understand the difference between a monohull and a catamaran. My intention was to let her see why the cruise I planned would be alot more comfortable than the excursions we'd done so far.
As I expected, Taylor loved it. "This thing is FAST!" she said. Like all catamarans, the
Sanderling
was a very swift boat, and it felt even faster because the seats in the hulls put you just inches above the water. We were only out for a few hours. It wasn't my boat, and I wanted to get it back to the shop so we could clean it up to return it to its actual owner. But we accomplished what I wanted. Taylor had no trouble understanding the advantages of having two hulls instead of one.
It wasn't even lunch time when we finished, so I took Taylor to a nice restaurant and offered to drive her home. Every time before, we had sex when we went sailing. There was no space or privacy on the
Sanderling,
so there was no romance, either. I'm sure that's why Taylor invited me inside when we got to her apartment. She wanted to make sure she reminded me that if she went on the cruise, I'd get a steady diet of hot sex.
Taylor's apartment was so nice I was impressed. It was a big, comfortable place in the middle of an expensive Miami neighborhood. Her building attracted a lot of successful people with the money to afford a very nice place to live.
"This is beautiful, Taylor," I said. "What a great apartment. It looks like a place done by a designer, but I'm betting you did all this."