First of all, the disclaimers. No small furry animals were harmed in the making of this story. All persons were over the age of 18 years and fucked each other with full consent. Please feel free to write a comment of any sort. If I fucked something up, I'd like to know. That's how we learn... usually. And please vote. It gives me a bit of a buzz.
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Once upon a time there was a fisherman... me. Back in my wild days I worked on fishing boats as a doryman. That meant I worked out of a smaller boat, usually an aluminium runabout, to get amongst the reef fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. These 'tinny's' then made their way back to a mother-boat of any size, usually ranging from 28 feet to 60 feet in length where we processed and froze the catch and where we lived from two weeks to up to a month at a time. Not a glamorous or overly comfortable life but a shitload of fun and excitement and bloody hard work that kept me pretty fit. We'd come in to harbour from the Reef to unload our frozen product and tie the mother boat alongside the wharf, or 'raft up' against a vessel already at the wharf and unload across their deck to the wharf. Often we would be at the wharf the same time as Coral-K, a trawler that would only be out for a night or three before returning to unload. Not my kind of stuff, working all night and sewing patches in trawl nets. Give me a 60 or 80lb handline and a fight with a fish any day.
A bit about me. 6ft tall, deep and hairy chest, sun bleached blonde hair with darker hair underneath, a blonde beard around the moustache and mouth, blending into a darker auburn a bit further down. Yes, a long beard about nipple length but have you ever tried to shave in salt water? Fuck it, let it grow. I was lean and while not heavily muscled, I have plenty of muscle definition from hauling on ropes and chains and manhandling fish from the depths. I've been told i have a good torso and apparently I also have pretty good legs as well. And top that off with a dark/golden tan. My eyes are fucked, so I have to wear glasses to stop me from walking into stuff and I'm pretty gregarious with a ready smile. Yeah, I reckon I didn't look too bad back then. (Don't ask for a recent photo, you'll not see the same bloke.)
Coral-K was owned by Rob and his missus, Tracy. He was a violent, drunken prick about thirty years old and she was a few years younger. Long blondish hair (usually in a pony tail), slim, long of limb with a great body, slim hips and about a large C cup breasts. She always wore a sheath type of t-shirt material dress that, I suppose, was easy to pull on and off and clean on a boat. I always spoke to Rob and only acknowledged Tracy with a smile and a nod as she was a bit reluctant to strike up a conversation with Rob around. That is, until Rob shot through with some bird he met at the pub. She had a ton of money, he divorced Tracy and left her the boat, the house and a mortgage. And of course Tracy blossomed into the beautiful woman she was before being downtrodden by a dickhead. And that's how it sorta started.
Like I said, I used to acknowledge Tracy's presence with a smile and a nod and often I would catch her looking at me in a sort of expressionless way. But then I reckon she caught me looking at her the same way before I smiled. After the breakup, I had a few conversations with her and although there was a mutual attraction, being at sea for a month at a time and in port for just a week or less didn't allow our meetings to coincide with our differing schedules. But there was something sparking.
This story was at the end of one trip and it was coming close to summer in the tropics, so pretty warm. We tied up around 1:00 am with the tide and most of the crew went home to sleep. I stayed on board and woke up briefly as someone tied alongside us but rolled over and slept again. Just after sunrise I went up onto the deck to prepare for unloading the freezers and saw Tracy had tied up alongside us. I said a quick g'day and got busy. An hour later they'd already finished unloading and there was only Tracy and one deckie finishing the clean up. When she saw me she asked if I knew anything about diesels (yes) and could I give her some advice. Now, most people think that the first thing a seaman thinks of when they come in after a trip is sex. Wrong. Pub first. Then sex. Then pub. I gave it a seconds thought and decided climbing around an engine room on a bloody trawler was nowhere near top of the list.
But Tracy was. So the beer could wait.
It took another couple of hours to get our boat sorted, unloaded, cleaned and haul the tinnies out of the water before I was free to jump cross to have a look at Tracy's problem. We climbed down into the crowded engine room where she showed me where there was oil leaking from the cylinder head rocker cover. No issue. I tightened that up and then she told me there was a vibration in the prop shaft that was a concern to her as that could become a major issue if left too long. I checked a few things, tightened and greased the stern gland, then said, "Lets take her for a run and see what's happening." Tracy agreed and we slipped the ropes and headed down to the mouth of the river and out to sea. The vibration was not bad but I was worried it could get worse, so I suggested we beach the boat on Round Island, just off the mouth of the river, and let the tide go out. Then we could have a look around underneath without resorting to diving and looking between gasped breathes. Tracy was happy with that as we'd only be about four or five hours before we re-floated and could go back into town.
As Tracy expertly ran the boat onto the beach, I dropped an anchor off the stern to hold the boat steady and then jumped over the side while she let the main anchor go off the bow. I then dragged it up onto the beach to hold us when the tide came in. At that point Tracy shut the engine down and stepped out of the wheelhouse. She leaned over the rail and called out to me, "Cuppa?" I was gazing at the way her breast was squashed against the steel of the rail and decided I wanted some of that.
We still had about half an hour before the boat started to list with the tide going out. At this point I was covered in sand, rust off the anchor and sweat. I replied, "How 'bout a bath first?" and swam out into the deeper water off the stern. I swear it wasn't even a minute when Tracy appeared off the back deck clad in a bright blue two piece and jumped in.
We laughed and joked and splashed (carefully) between small coral outcrops. I swam down and saw a small clown fish weaving in and out of it's anemone home and surfaced to tell Tracy about it. As I finished wiping water from my eyes, she was there, right in front of me. She put her hands to the back my neck and I felt her legs wrap around my waist. Fuuuuck!