This is an erotic memoir with a happy ending. All of the people you will meet are sexually adventurous. All will be thoroughly aroused and then satisfied before the end of the story. But, even in the context of a story that would be rated xxx if filmed, a gunk hole is not what you think it is, unless you're a sailor. If you're a sailor, then you'll know that a gunk hole is a safe anchorage just large enough for a couple of small yachts. So why do I get quickly and intensely aroused whenever my wife whispers, "Dearest, I want to go gunk holing again?" You'll just have to read this story to find out.
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She applied gentle but firm pressure on the nut. One more twist would finish the job of switching out the borrowed battery.
"There! That should do it. You're going to need to run the engine for a while to give the battery a full charge, but it should give you enough juice now to get the engine started."
As she straightened her lanky frame, her bare head and shoulders popped up through the open hatch over the engine compartment. She passed the wrench to her husband. With a hand from my wife, she clambered back on deck.
"Not as nimble as I once was," she said almost apologetically to no one in particular. Gwen's frame was tall and thin, but her muscles were firm with the activity of a year's cruising in the Atlantic. Only the streaks of gray hair (which she made no attempt to hide) and the bifocals (stylish in thin red horn rims) betrayed her years of experience and emphasized the contrast to the youth of our crew.
"Since you have more ice than you can use, I'll borrow some to chill a bottle of champagne for the moonrise." Her husband Jonathan's request was teasing but friendly. He gently made light of our mistake in draining our batteries dead by leaving the refrigerator on all night while at anchor. Now we found ourselves a day out of Eastport with a refrigerator full of ice, but without the power to start our engine. An experienced sailor could navigate the harbor without an engine, but we weren't experienced sailors.
I had learned the basics of sailing in order to charter the sailboat for this vacation. The cruise required successful attention to a myriad of details to avoid catastrophe - or, at least, embarrassment and discomfort. My wife, Alicia, had been skeptical that we were up to it. I had assured her that we would find the romantic solitude that she sought and the adventure that I craved. Gunk holing is how the sailing magazine described it. We would sail from one small, secure anchorage to the next among the hundreds of islands just off the coast of Maine. When we found the batteries dead in the morning, I was glad to find the solitude of our small anchorage broken by the arrival of a boat with a more experienced crew.
With juice back in the circuit, our diesel motor turned over once and sputtered to life. We chipped ice off the solid block in the refrigerator to give to our new friends for their timely assistance. Then we drew straws for who would have to stay with the relentlessly pounding motor while the battery charged. Having lost the draw, I watched the others row ashore to explore the island.
With little to do but wait for the afternoon to pass, there was plenty of time to daydream.
It had been no easy task to convince my wife to go along with the idea of gunk holing. Beautiful photos of the coast of Maine were a temptation. Photos of schooners slicing through sparkling water enticed her. But each time she almost yielded to my seductions, she would be dissuaded by listening to a gloomy sea shanty with wrecks and drownings in the fog and sudden storms of the Bay of Fundy. When all hope of a sailing vacation was almost gone, a chance call from an old roommate launched us on our adventure. With an old friend willing to come along, Alicia was surprisingly easy to persuade to go. Of course, the arrival of a third person would put the damper on my plans for romantic evenings at anchor, but the adventure of sailing would be enough to keep me satisfied for a couple weeks.
Hannah and my wife were opposites in complexion and personality, but fit together perfectly as friends. Both had the solid frames and full figures of Scandinavian grandparents, but my wife had dark complexion and long wavy hair while Hannah had freckles and short red hair. My wife was studious and took time to make friends. Hannah loved new experiences and could make friends with anyone she met.
The two of them had been roommates in college and had hitchhiked across Europe after graduation. Alicia had carefully planned a shoestring budget to cover a clearly defined itinerary. Hannah had said they would meet people along the way and would experience the adventure from day to day. Hannah won. They had actually spent almost nothing and never knew where they would be from day to day. Alicia's broad wholesome face and warm smile got them rides with the tourists that crisscross Europe in the summer sightseeing. Hannah's well filled tank tops and natural sexuality got them invited to parties at each of the local universities. In the course of the summer, they had visited the major tourist attractions and had acquired an intimate knowledge of modern European sexual preferences.
Though Alicia was reluctant to discuss these adventures in any detail, it was my conviction that these six weeks in Europe had been worth more to our marital bliss than the graduate course in human sexual expression that she took while studying for a master's degree in nursing. Though my sexual experience was limited to a series of one on one encounters with girlfriends, I still thought of myself as somewhat more experienced than Alicia. Being the lead technician in a university laboratory, I approached this question logically.
I knew that Alicia was not a virgin when we met. In fact, I had gone on a camping trip with her former boyfriend, Jack, when they were an "item" and long before Alicia and I had gotten together (with his encouragement). While I have no sexual attraction to men, it was impossible not to notice the size of his organ when we changed in the close confines of our tent. Sometimes I can not help imagining Alicia on her back with her legs pulled up to her chest and that huge cock shoving into her. It had made me a little nervous wondering if Alicia would be satisfied with me, but the flush on her chest and her urgent moaning when we make love are more than enough reassurance. Even in my imagination, it seems impossible that any woman could be more aroused than when Alicia cums for me.
So why did I think I was more experienced? Though we have an active sex life and are responsive to each other, Alicia is reluctant about certain activities that I found enjoyable. She will not discuss her past sexual experience, swallow my cum or let me play with the tender rosebud that beckons just beyond reach when my tongue laps the sexually charged juices from her wet pussy. Of course, all of these taboos had been broken at least once. More than once while wrapped in a tight 69 embrace, Alicia did not care if I squirted on her face as long as I kept licking her clitoris the way that she craved. In the excitement of the moment (I would never force anything on my wife that she did not want), I had even inserted my finger through her anus and had been rewarded with one of the most urgent and forceful orgasms I had ever seen her experience. The morning after this session broke the third taboo when she hinted that she had once seen Hannah having anal intercourse, but when I tried to arouse her later by bringing up the subject, she pretended that it had never happened. Though we had settled in a comfortable domesticity after four years of marriage, I was sexually satisfied and yet still hopeful that I could encourage her to experiment more with her sexuality.
It was well into dusk when Alicia and Hannah returned. A fresh water pond on the island had afforded them an opportunity to wash off the salt spray and shampoo their hair. They looked fresh and happy - like the schoolgirls just back from their tour of Europe. I noticed that Alicia was wearing Hannah's T-shirt with the distinctive logo when they returned. Dodge's Log Lodges was a rustic resort on Lake Superior where Alicia and a bunch of college roommates held an annual reunion. I said nothing, but I must have looked puzzled for a moment. They looked at each other and laughed conspiratorially.