A series of uncorrelated and unrelated events had impacted on my life balance; friends moved away, greater responsibilities at work. I needed to adjust my social life, I liked sailing and other sports, investigated how I could enhance these. One option was to crew for someone with a large boat, a number of agencies advertised their services. I joined one; nothing, and then three weeks later I received a phone call from someone called Vince. Would I like to be number 4 on his yacht this weekend, which was moored about an hour from where I lived.
We arranged to meet on Friday night at a hotel we both knew. I had never done anything so spontaneous before; was a bit nervous. We all met me, Vince and a French couple who worked with Vince in a large oil company. Had a few beers then went out to his yacht. It was very nice 30+ feet and only a few years old. Expensive too. We got organised, bent on the sails and got everything ready for the next day. The French couple had the big cabin the bow, Vince and I had a bunk each in the main saloon. We all got organised and went to bed, Vince and I chatted, nothing in particular just chatted. Getting to understand each other. Vince was a mathematician, worked on the oil rigs from time to time. Neither of us was married or had partners. Vince was ten or more years older than me. As we chatted we heard noises coming from the big cabin. There was no doubt that they were having some enthusiastic fun, the boat was not rocking but not far off it. We were both envois; by looking at each other's face and both getting a bit aroused by it.
Plan for the weekend was to sail to an island, anchor overnight, and sail back on the Sunday. A get to know you cruise. It went very well we had good sailing weather. On the Saturday night after we returned from the pub where we had a meal and a few drinks. Back on board the French couple went to bed. The noise started again, I am sure they were unaware of it. Vince and me went up on deck had a couple of more beers. By the time we went below, stripped off for bed, standing only in our skimpy matching underwear, looking at each other, it was quite apparent that we were both getting aroused by the French couple's antics.
We arrived back on the Sunday afternoon, they had a four hour drive back home, and I had an hour drive. Made the boat safe and left.