The Great Key Largo Embargo of 2019

MOTUS A.D. ^ | 6-10-19 | MOTUS

[Viking2002]

That seems a reasonable amount of time to let the filling firm up. Thanks for that tip - I'll make the crust. My wife's answer to anything in the kitchen is, "Needs more butter." *chuckle* 😊

[Lurker]

“My wife’s answer to anything in the kitchen is, “Needs more butter.”

Sounds like a fine woman.

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[rlmorel]

Heh, I had to see if I could find some pics...

Here we are, all having Key Lime Pie for breakfast on our moored boat, The Mango Wind!

And here are my feet on the Hope Town Lighthouse...:)

A nice tuna someone brought in on a boat near us:

Then there is this place: Nippers. I have been to some weird and crazy places and got pretty drunk all over the world, but this place was one of the wildest I have ever seen. I got pretty smashed there drinking their house drink, and I have the scars today from that place. Amazingly sick. And I would go back there again, if I could...:)

I took three sailboat trips with these friends of mine...some of the best vacations in my life. We have all gone our separate ways now, some have died. But boy, those were the days...:)

[centurion316]

The Cruiser Net (Ch 19) would put the word out about parties and gatherings. Happy Hour was a mandatory formation. That’s also where you would hear when some unfortunate mariner would plant his boat on the bottom of the reef.

[rlmorel]

That place "Nippers" was crazy. We got there late in the day, and it reminded me of when I was in the USN going through the Straits of Gibraltar...at sea, you see ships occasionally, but when you get to a choke point like that, I was always struck by the number of vessels converging on it.

At Nippers, as the sun was getting low, you would see sailboats and cruisers coming from all points of the compass...gotta get there and party hard!

I should have known about that place when we got all our drinks down to the beach, and a couple people said their drinks didn't have any alcohol in them. I took them back to the bar, told the bartender, who didn't even bother to taste them, simply grabbed two bottles and began pouring booze into the drinks and said "Say when."

People I was with said later there was no way I could have gotten that drunk with the number of drinks I had, and postulated that someone must have slipped something into my drink.

I don't know. I just think those drinks were very, very potent!

I also should have known, as we were walking up to the bar from the dock (past the Old Fig Tree!) a group of extremely intoxicated people walked by, stumbling and holding on to each other, and and an attractive young lady said in a grinning falsetto "You'll be sorrrrrreeeeeeee..."

I should have known. And then, when I heard this song, I thought, "Yep. That is about right. Never heard anything truer..."

Click here to listen to The Barefoot Man: At Nippers

(Lyrics to "At Nippers" from The Barefoot Man):

I recall tequila in Mexico
Potato Moonshine from Idaho
Octoberfest out in Germany
But I can't remember two weeks last September
When I was on Guana Key
I was at Nippers
They say I was passed out cold
At Nippers
I was dancin' naked, or so I was told
At Nippers
Round the corner by the old fig tree
I was intoxicated
Inebriated
Three notches past tipseeeee

I recall the best wine from Gay Paree
Straight white rum from Miami
Bourbon Whiskey from old skid row
But I can't remember
Two weeks last September
When I was in Abaco

I was at Nippers
I hear there's a real grand view
At Nippers
Well, if it's there, I ain't got a clue
At Nippers
Round the corner by the old fig tree
I was intoxicated
Inebriated
Three notches past tipseeeee

I've consumed hot sake in Tokyo
And chilly vodka on old Moscow
When it comes to drinkin' I'm versatile
Hey, but I can't remember
Two weeks last September
On that Bahamian Isle

I was at Nippers
I hear the food is great
At Nippers
Oh, I lost my partial plate
At Nippers
Round the corner by the old fig tree
I was intoxicated
Inebriated
Three notches past tipseeeee

At Nippers
Down in Abaco
At Nippers
Hey, my friends, that's where I'm layin' low
At Nippers,
Round the corner by the old fig tree
I was intoxicated
Inebriated
Three notches past tipseeeee

At Nippers
Down in Abaco
That's where I'm layin' low
At Nippers,
Round the corner by the old fig tree
I was intoxicated
Inebriated
Three notches past tipseeeee