In Hoofers it's a mystery why instructors come and go, although hard partiers are preferred. Often the good ones seem to go and it's the jerks who stick around. Brains and teaching skill certainly aren't valued much. But it's difficult to provide details when administrators cover everything up. In general, people who look or act like they're hiding something are hiding something.
Maybe leaving the scene of an accident, operating an unregistered boat, and so on led someone to conclude that Will isn't responsible enough to be a Hoofer instructor. Oh wait... those are prerequisites to becoming a HSC instructor! No wonder Hoofers and the UW are so protectionist.
Predators and Prey.
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The new Jfleet Captain is Mark Gahler by everything I hear. He's a stand up guy. But the scuttlebutt on Will is not very pretty. It has nothing to do with boat registration or car crashes, but something very interesting, more to come.
ReplyDeleteIs this the same Will Beatty that got fired a couple of years ago, after he pulled a knife on a youth sailor and cut his whistle off the child's life jacket?
ReplyDeleteWow, pull a knife on a kid once in Hoofers and you're marked for life. Who woulda thunk.
ReplyDeleteHoofers is a social utopia, everything is perfect. Step outta line once however and you'll be destroyed. Therefore everyone at hoofers is perfect and agrees with everyone else.
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