EagleFight!!

The boat I didn't know about.

So my friend Finn and I have been out of contact over most of the summer, but no longer, and are now discussing the sickass section we are going to write for the Whitman Pioneer. And in these conversations he keeps mentioning this “boat” that I either a) have completely forgotten about because I’m an insensitive idiot or b) never knew about. And while I keep asking him about it, I still have NO IDEA WHAT THIS BOAT IS because the only conversation we’ve had by phone has been static-filled and garbled.

The rest has been by email where he casually mentions sea-faring with no explanation. Here are email snippets:

“Hey! Sorry, I’ve been out in the boat and this is the first time I’ve had internet access in awhile.  No, I haven’t gotten any text messages.”

“…I like the idea of a clubhouse/space.  Could it have pinball? Or perhaps be made of solid diamond, so that it blinds all who gaze upon it? Either or, really.  Call me, I’ve got to get back to the boat.”

WHAT?!

Now I’m in this state of limbo. I have reason to believe that Finn is regularly coming ashore to make contact with the rest of the world, and then returning to this boat to do THINGS, and I want to know what things, but it’s almost more enjoyable to leave it as completely ambiguous.

I picture him talking to me on the phone while wearing a captain’s hat, smoking a pipe, and speaking through his thick beard into a rusty payphone attatched to a fish shack. Then he hobbles down a pier into the fog of my imagination where he returns to his boat to do important boat things.

FINN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?! Or maybe you just shouldn’t tell me.