The New Braunfels Floatilla


July 28, 2005

Sara “Float Mistress” Williams

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 2:14 pm

This crazy-eyed power behind the throne is the official concubine of the Float Master. A once powerful force of unbridled fun, known for spontaneous dance and jell-o shot gobbling, the Float Mistress had the party endurance of the freshmen class of Southwest Texas (Texas State), but mother-hood killed that Sara faster than John kills a jug of jungle juice, now its “no honey you go ahead with your fun, I’ll stay and watch the baby”. WHAT A GOOD WOMAN SHE IS.
Sara spends her time now collecting baby magazines and complaining about the cable bill, but one day she will be back. Oh she will be back.

New Ranking

Filed under: Floating, Rant — Float Master @ 8:29 am

Due to threatened legal action and the recommendation of our staff attorney (actually he is the complainer and our attorney) he has quoted a very obscure and poorly written law: Float By-Laws: Article XI, Subsection A (1)(b)(iii): “No classification of floaters shall ever be formed or designated by anyone. There shall be no hint of exclusion or segregation by the EO (equal opportunity) Floatilla.”

Although the ruling council superscedes all laws physical, natural, and legal we feel it is in the best interest to create a catagory in our ranking system that has no numerical scale good or bad, yet the name of this ranking speaks for itself. In hindsight we realize we have needed this ranking for many years because there are so many of our floaters that fall into this catagory.

From hinceforth forward the following ranking of; FLOAT PRINCESS will be incorporated into our rankings and bylaws, and let it be known that all members falling into the ranking of FLOAT PRINCESS male or female shall be known as such.

Note: Rankings have been adjusted this 28th day of July year of our Lord 2005.

July 26, 2005

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 12:10 pm

When I think of Travis I think of Michael Jackson’s song “Smooth Criminal”, not because his last name is Crim but because Travis always wished he was molested by Michael as a child. He says only for the money, but the way he talks about it you tend to wonder.
Other than his taste in beer Travis is a very good floater with reputable skills in the partying department. Rare is the day when Travis is not the last one standing, he almost killed Lob on a two day partying binge, but while Rob was passing out in his bathtub Travis was at home playing hide the wookie with his fem-floater before he passed out, unfortunately it was only about 2 minutes later.

LeLe Hale

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 11:23 am

I have to say that Le is a pretty good floater. She rarely shirks a duty and is good natured during pre float preparation. Although times have changed her a bit, Le is a lot like having another guy on the float.
Good for chugging a beer when needed, or to hook you up with a dip if your can of Skoal gets trashed. And it never hurts to have a chic on the float that not only looks like Howdy Doody’s big sister, but who’s sportin’ D cups, and legs that should be sued for non support. What some of you may not know about her is that she is one of our more refined floaters, with a degree in Art History from an accredited University. That made all more shocking when you learn, she was born in Tennessee, raised by parents from Georgia, and lived in West Virginia.
A redneck state tri-fecta that could only produce a feisty redhead, with more attitude than most “sisters”, less patients than most 2 year olds, and a mean streak that makes Idi Amin look like Mother Teresa and fighting style of Mike Tyson.

July 25, 2005

Big Rick

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 11:56 am

Big Rick Purdy has become the most famous of our flotilla, he is the 2005 world record holder for power-lifting in his weight and age group and the only thing he is “juiced” with is cigarettes and whiskey. Rick has spent years looking for something he is good at and finally found two. Lifting weights and having a child a week before he goes in for his vasectomy.
The only man to ever make Rick cower is a wo-man and she stands about 5’2” and goes by the name Mrs. Rick Purdy. Susan to her friends and “Yes Dear” to Rick carries Rick’s twig and giggle berries in her purse and only brings them out to taunt him. Big Rick is a great floater and would give you the shirt off his back…..but it won’t fit you.

Sailor Lee

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 11:37 am


Taylor “Sailor” Lee is a man of many faces, like the movie the man with a 1000 faces except Taylor only has 3. He has his regular face then after a few drinks he has his Scottish face and after a few more he falls into his Aussie tennis pro face (which you can see above). Much to Taylor’s chagrin he once met a girl with his Aussie face, she fell for it and he had to try and date her with his Aussie face for several weeks, needless to say it didn’t work out. Taylor also has the most unusual ability to talk for exactly one hour and never take a breath.
Sailor used to be a valued member of our flotilla until he joined the Scooter hoard and now he only “Scoots” with them. I don’t even know why we even put him up on this board… Maybe someday he will return to the light.

July 15, 2005

Your Rankings are in for 2005

Filed under: Floating, Float Report — Float Master @ 4:07 pm

Float Rankings are never set in stone or should I say they aren’t in the cooler, and they are sometimes combined like a River Nutria with River Scum coated fur, living in an empty beer can and eating fountain darters, which means you are an indefinable freak (Charlie Zech). So in no particular order here we go:

Busta Rymes – Cooler Guard
Dev – Cooler Guard
Platt - Honor Guard
Kelly “GK” – Squire
Michele “Shell” – Empty Beer Can
Sara – Empty Beer Can
Rick Purdy – Honor Guard
Maj. Karin – Karin has served her punishment as River Scum and is now promoted back to floater.
Karin’s friend who stole the river camera – River Scum
Common Law Caryn – Floater
Taylor – Blind Nutria
Travis “Criminal” Crim – Honor Guard
Le “Lele” Hale – Squire
Matt Kyle – Float Princess
Kerri – Float Princess
Rob “Lob” Snow – Nutria in a Cooler
Melissa “Hell Cat” Snow – Floater
Chan – Nutria Squire
Boy King – Honor Guard
Susan Gregory – Squire
Capt. Dan – Cooler Guard
Kristin “jell-o shot” Perry - Floater and a bag of chips
Barron “the giant” – Nutria
All of Chris’s Austin Work Friends – River scum
Beverly Zech – Float Princess
Charlie “Zeech” – Float Princess
Susan “Mrs Big Rick” Purdy – Floater
Capt. James “Squivel” Esquivel – Honor Guard
Tiffany “Stiffany” Esquivel – Empty Beer Can

This list always growing so if you don’t see your name leave a comment and I will add you after talking to the review board.

Bongo Boy

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 3:56 pm

Is there any thing in there…anything at all??? That is what I think when I look into the cavernous abyss of James Esquivels dark brown eyes. And just when you think there is nothing there…a twitch…a bit of tobacco laden spit slips out from the edge of his mouth… and then it speaks. You listen for a minute, then realize you were right to think him empty in the first place, and slowly back away.

James is a great floater, good for the prep and for the party. First to act in many float related needs. Unfortunately, for us, he has decided that getting naked is one of them. Long before Matthew McConaughey, Uncle Sam and his daughter Avery started sucking his waking hours our James was the naked bongo boy. James is naked so much, that a $10.00 pool was commissioned to guess the over/under on Esquivels privates becoming public. It’s gonna happen, just like the sun rising in the east…James’ moon will rise, just as true. I do not think that beer is an issue…it is the “brown water” that almost certainly the cause for us to be one on one with his “boys”. A true “metro” James has been know to pick his river headgear from Tiffany’s closet instead of his own. In short, on a float, he is like a devil possessed.

James is on hiatus from the Flotilla serving his Country in Afghanistan. Capt. James “Squivel” Esquivel joined the military after getting drunk and watching the Stripes marathon on TBS one weekend, but unlike Stripes, he doesn’t get to test out the Generals new urban assault vehicle and make love to hot bodied MP’s; he’s over in Afcrapistan eating camel spiders, drinking sand and driving a WWII rent-a-wreck with two Dixie cups and a long string for a radio, and he thought the military wasn’t going to be glamorous. I have to say, his shiny bum will be a welcome sight when he and his tube ride again.

Hooorah!!!

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 3:00 pm

July 1, 2005

What will YOUR rank be?

Filed under: Floating — Float Master @ 2:38 pm

Float Rankings
2005
Lowest to highest

1. River Scum – First time floater or just a really really bad floater, or a combination of both
2. Hydrilla – You are annoying and bad for the river. People like you and hate you at the same time
3. Algae – You serve no purpose and you do nothing, you are just along for the ride and your ok with that.
4. Nutria – You are only cute from great distances, up close you are really just a big river rat. Only really drunk people think you are cute and funny. Almost everyone has a little nutria in them
5. Empty Beer Can – You used to be something; but now you hardly ever come to float anymore and when you do you usually complain when we dock, and dare I say it? You probably don’t even like to float anymore.
6. Fountain Darter – A very rare rank you are between good and bad. You can be great one float then a pain in the ass the next, or you are semi-new and show some potential; you just haven’t put in the time. (Most women are Fountain Darters.)
7. Blind Salamander – You’ve been to a few floats but you just can’t seem to ever be there on time but otherwise you are ok. (Taylor is a perfect example of the Blind Salamander.)
8. Floater – You are usually on time, you bring beer just for you, but you don’t really apply yourself to the float doctrine yet.
9. Squire – Basically the same as a Floater, but you have put in enough time so you know how to take the cooler down without tipping it or get caught in the backwash. You’ve got a couple of float seasons behind you and it looks like you may have a future with the float team.
10. Cooler Guard – What a squire is trying to achieve. A veteran, you have river skills, very respectable river skills. Cooler Guard members make sure the cooler is always safe. (No female has ever achieved or surpassed the rank of Cooler Guard as they are typically incapable of comprehending the requirements of such a task.)
11. Honor Guard – You are one of the very long time floaters you are fun to be around, you bring toys and or Jell-o shots, a creative floater that adds to the enjoyment of the float. Highest possible rank attainable by non-royalty.
12. Vice Float Master - Chris Benson & Richard Hale serve as Float Master when the Float Master is not there. Their word is the same as the Float Master unless it is contradictory to the Float Masters word, regardless of location of the Float Master.
13. Float Master – He who shall not be named. Do not look directly into the eyes of the Float Master and always do what he says and do it rapidly.

* Float Princess - No discription available.

The Float Master

Filed under: Floater Profiles — Float Master @ 1:40 pm



When Stoney and I decided to do each others profiles, I started to think to myself… that’s just not fair. For him I mean. Most of the material he might have on me, he probably couldn’t remember. That puts him at a huge disadvantage. But a deal is a deal, so I would like to break the rules a bit, raise the consistently low bar he sets, and pen a bit of Float Eloquence.

There once was a man from a riverside town, To a float, he’s never been tardy.
In a tube, he usually acts like a clown, But he thinks he’s Vince Lombardi.

As a boy, he found the river a home,
A place where solace he’d find.
On the banks, and about the springs he’d roam, And here, he would lose his mind.

I’ll create a world, all mine, you’ll see, I’ll call myself the Float Master.
Rules and ridiculous things I’ll decree.
But it turned out to be a disaster.

Just then we thought, a glimmer of hope, He ran and won for Mayor.
A match that truly no one could cope.
Like Amy Grant opening for Slayer.

For ousting him there were no takers,
His politics were scruffy.
He certainly made His mark, Makers,
Cause beer makes his face puffy.

This is the part of this little trip,
Where I’d take a shot at his team.
I can’t, they won another championship, That freakin’ makes me scream.

His leadership before the float,
Was not helped by his Karate.
You’re better off in a sinking boat,
With Float Master John Gotti.

Marrying well, he has done right,
During his reign of terra’.
But when you say your prayers tonight,
Say one just for Sara.

All you floaters, must agree,
Matt and Chris and Caryn.
Float Master Stoney, he must be,
Be thankful it’s not Barron.

Phear us.