Fish Tail
Topless fishing charter booted by municipal marina. Palm Beach Post:
Why?
No, not why were they booted. Why a topless fishing charter? Stupid question, but here’s the answer.
“They’re going to spend more money in a strip club, which isn’t as classy as what we do,” she said. “It’s just entertainment.”
OK, makes sense. The latest neuro-scientific research bets anglers will probably willing to spend more on the off chance they might catch a fish.
Smokin’ Em Charters’ tours cost $1,250 for eight hours of fishing. It’s an additional $100 for each woman in a bikini and an additional $150 for each topless woman.
“They’re doing everything a regular mate would do,” she said.
Somehow I don’t think regular mates do quite the same thing to the average fisherman’s nucleus accumbens (see above link).
Since news of their forced departure broke, Coombes said the phone has not stopped ringing. Most of the calls have been from people interested in the tours, she said. “That was never the basis of our business,” she said. “Sex sells, if that’s the way to put it.”
OK, there’s the business plan. Here’s the regulatory constraint to old fashioned American entrepreneurism:
“We had no idea this was going on,” said Dean Kubitschek, manager of the Fort Pierce City Marina.
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Kubitschek said he told the Coombes when they applied for a slip that they could not have any nudity at public facilities only to discover brochures advertising just that in a restaurant at the Fort Pierce City Marina.
Kubitschek said the brochures, found a little more than two weeks after the company had docked at the city marina, were not in keeping with the area’s family atmosphere.
“I can’t have families running up to me with brochures with nude ladies on them saying, ‘What’s this?’ ” he said. “It’s not right.”
I can see his point. But I’m also thinking these people have taken stripreneurism to a whole new level.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:28 pm on Friday, April 4, 2008
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April 4th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
New meaning for the word angular.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I suppose it depends on what the definition of “mate” is. But frankly, most of the fishermen I’ve known wouldn’t notice topless women if they’re in the midst of catching fish. At least, after the first two six-packs, they wouldn’t.
April 5th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Time to head for international waters.