Cocktail Class Runabouts: Cheap thrills and family fun in an 8'skimmer

摘要

The word on the dock is that BAHAMA MAMA, piloted by Emily Fitz, is the one to beat. Kim Granbery, a tall, straight-backed man with a graying ponytail and a little grease under his fingernails, tells me this. He's Emily's uncle. We're standing on the dock in rain and a 15-knot breeze with Gretchen Granbery, his wife, and Katie, their grandniece, age 10. I'd been coerced, as had Katie, in the friendliest kind of way, into helping time the start at a late-season informal race of Cocktail Class boats in Barrington, Rhode Island. On the water, people who had seemed to be perfectly sane, upright, responsible adults just a few minutes earlier were crouched on their knees over the foredecks of plywood speedboats less than 8'long.