# Dopefest on a boat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962 "2001-06-24T11:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/1 "2001-06-24T11:36:05Z")
It was a fine, fine evening hanging out on the boat with **Demo, psycat, Jack Batty** and **zyzzyva**. Listening to **Demo** and **psycat** talk about how they wound up together was sweet. The kids were cool. I dragged along a non-Doper friend of mine and she sounded sufficiently impressed by the quality of Dopers that she might end up joining our cult. I wish I hadn’t kept hitting my head, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/2 "2001-06-24T14:42:41Z")
You should have gone out to international waters to gamble, smoke reefer and blow the smoke in the coast guards face. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/3 "2001-06-24T20:26:50Z")
Sorry I missed it, gang… messed up my neck earlier this week and have been in pretty constant pain since Wednesday. Went for acupuncture yesterday… woo! Did anyone turn into… THE FLY? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/4 "2001-06-24T21:28:56Z")
Heh, glad to hear you guys were having fun on the boat. My parents and I have one just like it… in fact, I was the one that recommended it to Demo. My parents are out in the bay now (I didn’t go since I’m not feeling well). I should try having a Dopefest on the boat someday… 😉 (In case you’re wondering, the boat’s a [MacGregor 26X](http://www.macgregor26.com/).) ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/5 "2001-06-24T21:49:35Z")
Heh, glad to hear you guys were having fun on the boat. My parents and I have one just like it… in fact, I was the one that recommended it to Demo. My parents are out in the bay now (I didn’t go since I’m not feeling well). I should try having a Dopefest on the boat someday… 😉 (In case you’re wondering, the boat’s a [MacGregor 26X](http://www.macgregor26.com/).) ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/6 "2001-06-24T21:51:24Z")
Dammit. Someone take away my back button. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/7 "2001-06-25T01:04:08Z")
Hey, thanks, everyone, for coming on such short notice. It turned out to be super-cool, if not a little chilly. Plus, like **Snooooopy** (I know how many o’s are in his name, now. ;)) said, we may have recruited another Doper! I threw up the pictures from the trip [here](http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/democritus90?d&.flabel=fld5&.src=bc), in case you want to see a bunch of people playing with Spider Man action figures, drinking cheap beer and such. 😃 It was great seeing the people we had met and meeting the people we hadn’t, as always. Thanks you guys. (Oh yeah, and thanks, **Sandy** for the boat reccomendation, again!) ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/8 "2001-06-25T01:14:21Z")
You guys! If you had told me that [The Amazing Kreskin](http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/democritus90?e&.intl=us&.flabel=fld5&.from=d&.pindex=13&start=13&.src=ph&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/democritus90%3fd%26.flabel=fld5%26.intl=us%26.src=ph) was going to be there, I’d have been there! Loves ya, zyzz! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/9 "2001-06-25T01:46:49Z")
That was really cool. I had an awesome time. You just can’t beat the conversations of a dopefest. Always such good company. I’m glad everyone else had fun. We will have to head down that way again one night without the kiddies, there looked like a few cool bars and stuff to wander in and out of. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-on-a-boat/69962/10 "2001-06-25T01:54:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mercutio \* > \*\*You should have gone out to international waters to gamble, smoke reefer and blow the smoke in the coast guards face. \*\* We were going to do some diamond smuggling and gun-running, but only one of the two forward machine guns was operational, and **Demo** said the rear torpedo launchers had been on the fritz all week. Plus, they were low on grenades. We decided not to risk it.