Day 35: Passengers may get wet.

I'm Adam Sell and I have two months left before I leave Boston. My challenge? Do something in the city every day. Have ideas for my adventure? Send me an email.

They warned us as we got onto the boat that the back end was where the most water splashed up. Nonsense, I thought. They told us there were no completely safe spots on-board, and that we should all expect to be moist by the end of the tour. Phooey.

Lesson learned - when the people in charge of a really fast boat tell you what's going to happen, they usually know what they're talking about. It's been a few hours now and my jeans still have a couple of damp spots from the Codzilla high-speed Harbor cruise. I hopped on board with a young penpal and his mother, and we briefly wondered if the lack of seat belts in our row was something to be concerned about. Of course not, I figured. I'd done one of these type of cruises before, long ago in New York City, and I neither got wet nor significantly jostled. We'd be fine, I told them.

And we were, for the most part. At least until the boat started doing rapid 180-degree maneuvers. That's when I discovered just why they said the stern got the wettest, as my back and hair got a nice coating of seawater.

It's not a long cruise - 40 minutes from dock to dock. But they work the little bits of information pretty well into the script...on the way out. Once you get to Deer Island, the cruise stops being a tour and is more about what fun tricks can be done in a speedboat. Which, to be fair, is why I signed up for this ride. Yeah, the info can be interesting, but make me need to buy a new shirt, why don'tcha?

But it was a good time. I got pretty well hit with splashed-up waves, and the kid seemed to enjoy the zip around Boston Harbor. It's not a bad way to spend an afternoon.