Guayaquil & Back to Columbia

By Paul Stansby

Jimmy is continuing his avoidance of the cartels in Columbia and sails from Salinas to Guayaquil in Uruaguay with a group of eight ladies who he and Jack met up with. Sixth in the series of Cruise Control Over

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Stansby
• Release date: Jul 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215974087

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cover-image, Guayaquil & Back to Columbia

    ©. Paul W Stansby, Cartagena, Columbia

          2023

          Guayaquil &

      Back to Columbia 

Fiction

Cruise Control Part Six

Chapter One Arrival in Guayaquil

  'This is a big port.'

  'Massive Jimmy, must feed South America from the Pacific.'

  'Vice versa too, not knowing what this continent exports.'

  'Bound to be a load of oil, a commodity that's always in demand, this port is looking to be load of estuaries obviously fed by rivers, these ladies will be expectant of a yacht club of sorts.'

  'Catch up on their cocktail intake which they've been denied from for four days, now we are back in cell range anything from our decoys?'

  'No messages or calls, Jimmy, they're not dead in a ditch for we've would have heard so just apprehended which is quite cool for us.'

  'It is indeed, more than excellent as long as we keep ourselves scarce.'

  'Mistaken sightings are always happening.'

  'Too true Jack and in a few years I'll be back in the realms of being forgotten.'

  'Which is what the cartels don't want of course so they'll dream up some more escapades for you to be involved in, maybe this Finca idea could be a good one.'

  'The art of remaining a serious somebody, I now beginning to understand why film stars don't hang up their shoes as such.'

  'Their free cups of coffee and complimentary entrances to cinemas and clubs would cease.'

  'And the rest, so anything coming up for boozy yacht clubs on your phone.'

  'I'm looking up champagne cocktails sold in this city.'

  'Yep, that's a favourite to attract the twenty to thirty year old girls.'

  'That should suit these women onboard, a lively crowd who will direct them to the best places to go clubbing.'

  'I'll be joining them as well.'

  'Whose is your favourite amongst them?'

  'I've yet to discover this, getting intimate on a boat when there's eight of them is impossible, I've a couple of contenders.'

  'Choice is good and even better when there's no backdraft.'

  'Too right, you think there's an entry point to this port, customs?'

  'People are most likely smuggling out and not in Jimmy.'

  'Good point, this continent has numerous drugs and jewels, any serious traffic is out of here, you found anywhere on the chart plotter which relates favourably with online data, ?'

  'I think so, looks to be plausible posh so up the second channel then it should be a couple miles up on the left bank.'

  'Let's see, okay, I'll go and tell them so they can dress accordingly, hair wise they're a mess with the salty air so head scarves will be on.'

  'Not a sport for maintaining your looks sailing, especially pacific ocean trips, looking elegant and chic is for the clubhouse where an air conditioning limo is available for ferrying one around, five minutes in this breeze and their hair is subject to a lot of turbulence.'

  'Going below, how long do you reckon?'

  'Two hours plus not three, so that should give them enough time to get themselves clubhouse fit.'

  Ten minutes later

  'They're getting into their top gear which they had in reserve to impress a new crowd of Latinos, Jimmy.'

  'Getting in tune with a new environment, out to be noticed and fancied displacing the fact that their youthful bodies now belong the area of babes, so clothes take over as tight shorts and Bikini tops are out.'

  'That appears the way of the world for as girls change into becoming women, I like them both equally.'

  'We're at an age where we can we can encompass both freely in our minds.' 

  Chapter Two Coming alongside a more than posh cafe with its own jetty

    'Good they had a VHF radio channel, they've got guys on the quay to take the lines, it's stern in first and drop the anchor to hold the bow, we're a little shabby for here in this, your new one would be most befitting that you left your girls as such on at Cartagena.'

  'My estranged daughters seems to have commandeered that one as they've taking a liking to going out on the town with the local girls, expectant onlookers from this cafe balcony are checking us out Jack.  I expect not so much happens here, certainly no tyres for fenders alongside these pristine motor yachts.'

  'Those socks we slipped on the fenders will be appreciated, I'll go and get ready to drop the hook.'

  'Okay, let's do this as if we've done it a thousand times, the women will arrive on deck as soon as they hear the chain going out.' 

  Moored up

  'Looking good ladies.'

  'Thanks Jimmy, one thing we know how to do well, this all looks rather swish.'

  'Cocktail list looked amazing online Anastasia.' 

  'That certainly attracts the girls, looks to be a fashionable clubhouse as opposed to a cafe Jack referred to, time to explore new drinks I should think, it should be the type of place to placate the most choosy women on the planet. I expect you'll be into cold beers, so we'll order some for you while you get sorted onboard, so many ropes and sails to organise compared to a motorboat, how do we get off, there is no pontoon alongside to hop onto.'

  'We've a plank to get onto the quay.'

  'Ah, okay, Jimmy, gymnastic days, fortunately no tights are required in this heat for us, that plank I'm seeing is rather narrow for us, can you drop the dinghy in so we can hop into that then hop off, we've just done our hair so falling in the drink would not be the one, not forgetting our fresh underwear garments, saltwater is sticky stuff even more in this estuary, your new neighbours are perhaps accommodating so we hop onto them and walk off their gangways.'

  'I'll ask the dock guys.'

  'Please do.'

  In the clubhouse

  'We got a tour of the adjacent motor yacht so we took forever as it was the owners pride and joy, plus gin and tonics, do all motor boaters do gin and tonic.'

  'Seems to be the way for the guys, Anastasia, large ones?'

  'Enormous, we're already tipsy, so time to moderate into some less alcoholic cocktails if they exist here, rather portly women are around in here as on the boat, they're body mass is befitting to accommodate such large drinks, ours aren't and food would be good, not fish as you've been pulling those out of the sea in abundance on the way round, salad, cheese, ham garnished with olives and walnuts or whatever nuts are available here.'

  'The day crowd, the evening crowd will be a lot different, I'll call a waiter over.'

  'Do so, we need to be seated, eight of us standing are attracting way too much attention.'

  'European skinned women.'

  'I know, a definite novelty for this place, lovely decor so you choose well.'

  'That was Jack.'

  'He's bemused at the bar with the rather three pretty servers with stunning figures, we definitely never looked like that. I expect they were online as well to tempt clients into the premises, ah,  waiter, please may we have a table for eight, perhaps ten but I expects the men to be hanging out at the bar most of the afternoon.'

  'Of course, champagne cocktails, madame?'

  'A speciality of the house?'

  'Yes.'

  'I think perhaps a wine list, we got off a boat via another boat, getting back on maybe slightly different, moderation is required.'

  'You're going nightclubbing?'

  'Normally not at our age, we're all single and not after additional males or dancing for that matter, board games and cards suffice us well.'

  'Yes, some bodyguards would be necessary I think as well, Latino boys are very enthusiastic.'

  'I expect so, after a few drinks most men are, I see your colleagues are  getting a table together to accommodate us, girls we are being sorted out, good to sit down as everything is swaying after three days at sea.'

  'Yes ma'am'

  Over at the bar

  'I'm liking this place.'

  'I can see why, a beauty pageant of servers, I could easily be lead astray by any of