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      On Monday morning around 8 AM, the day before we were going to take off , my sister drops me off at the boat. For now on I will be sleeping on the boat. I spend the day, as mentioned in the last post, installing fire extinguishers in the engine room, lashing items to the life lines, securing appliances down below, so that they will not move around in rough weather. He also has me screwing trays of nuts and bolts to the top of tool boxes so that they will not move around. Mind you there is no cover on these trays. Boy...does he have a surprise coming.  Well... by the time 6 PM rolled around,, I had just worked 10 hours on his boat, I was pretty tired and hungry. So I go down below and ask the captain "What's for dinner?", His response was "There are the noodles that my friend left on the boat the other night". I turn to him and say "I don't want that . There was no sauce on it and they  sucked." . His response was " that's your problem. the crew is responsible for feeding themselves.".
   In that one instant he changed my whole attitude toward the cruise. My first instinct was to take my gear off the boat and call my sister to pick me up. I get a hold of myself and walk to the pizza parlor that was in the nearby strip mall. I order a chicken parm then go to the nearby liquor store and pick up a Fosters Oil Can. Nothing smaller could of satisfied me at that time. BTW while I was at the pizza parlor I called Jerry to tell him what had happened, and that I was pretty pissed off. Also I tell him that if I see something going wrong with that guy's boat I would not tell him (the captain) about it. Jerry gets excited at this point and tells me that I can not be like that, somebody will get hurt.
   Anyway I return to the boat and eat my dinner. The captain at one point yells up to me "Is everything OK". I yell down that I am having my dinner and after that I am going to bed. He knows that all is not OK.
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 The following morning Jerry and Bob show up at the boat. Jerry is in a very excited mood and tells  Walter that "WE HAVE TO HAVE A MEETING". In this you _tube video---------------------------->
 [ http://youtu.be/Takl1eg-gMM ] , (paste this into your browsers address bar and hit return). Anyway you will see the captain complaining that I expected him to stop whatever he was doing and cook dinner for me. That was not the case, all he had to do was tell me where the food was so I could  cook it. Actually this cheap bastard should of bought me lunch every day that I worked on his boat, and last night , should of bought me dinner. Also you will hear him say that even though I worked on his boat for the last two weeks, that I still was not considered crew?????? Then he complains that I stopped working after I ate dinner at 7 PM. lol
  In this next video   [ http://youtu.be/aSna0PLorbk ] you hear Jerry complaining that one crew member should not correct another when they are in the middle of performing a task   ( A repeating theme of his). Funny, If you recall from a previous post about the captain laying down the rules, Jerry was all for criticizing anyone if they were screwing up :).  I like Jerry, but I feel that Jerry's feeling about this depended on which direction the wind was blowing. For instance, If the wind is blowing from Jerry to me then it was OK for him to criticize me, but if the wind is blowing from me to him, then it is not OK.
   Anyway more important, you hear Jerry complaining to the captain that he is not going over the workings of boat with us. To this the captain says "He had no time". Imagine.... we are going to sail this boat  down to the Caribbean Sea, anything can go wrong along the way, and the captain has no time to show how the boat works! I remember about two weeks ago, Walter and I are sitting in the cockpit having a beer , and I bring up the subject about the boat operation. I tell him that I would like him to go over the operation of the engine, basically how to prime it, if we lose power. "Also I tell him that I want him to go over the operation of the bilge pumps. His response is "What do you want to do, steal my boat". I smile, and reply that "It is a nice boat". With that he smiles. I sort of felt that I could not press this subject anymore at this time.
 Anyway, in a few hours we leave port.