[paranewbi]

Not ignorance! RIB is an acronym for Rubber Inflatable Boat. We bought one about a year ago and took it down to Santispac (Conception Bay) because I got to old to paddle my wife around in our double kayak (I lovingly refer to her as my ‘Fishing Whore’ because she loves to fish all the time!). Ii use to refer to them generally as ‘Zodiacs’ because that’s all I knew them as.

I have been surfing for nearly 60 years now and to walk down the beach with a new board is one thing… to shred on it gets you way more respect.

I took our RIB out of the RV and set it up on the beach @ Santispac for the first time. Everything was shiny brand new including the 9.9 Honda outboard. The other RIB owners (about 30 of ’em and mostly Canadians) watched with great interest. A couple even came over to oogle my new toy. I had watched a ton of YouTube videos on how to set up and operate it so learned some of the lingo about RIB’s there and sounded half intelligent while conversing with them.

Of course being my first boat, I knew nothing of how to approach departing and arriving in shallow water. I knew they knew I was a RIB kook at my first launching. They were gracious though and over the coarse of time their wisdom helped me immensely and after two months camping there I almost looked like I knew what I was doing!

I appreciate your inquiry as to the acronym AmandaE! Hopefully you won’t have to be humiliated at 67 years of age as ‘That American guy with the new RIB’ was.

Rick

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