A Solid Hour
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 31 Oct 2016 23:17
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A Solid Hour for a Chum to
Overtake Another
 Unbelievably we watched a local fishing in the gap between the shipping lanes – not
good to have outboard failure.........
On channel sixteen. We listened to a
Singaporean accent on the radio to a chum “Are you listening on channel one
zero”. “I’m listening on channel ten”. More irate “I need you to listen on
channel one zero”. “Would you like me to call you back right now on channel
ten???”. Pitch raised and a louder voice “I have been calling you on channel one
zero.” “I have been listening on channel sixteen and ten.” Now singing his voice
was so high. “I need to know if you are monitoring channel one zero.” The
funniest thing was the captain replying had a plummy English accent. “I can
assure you I am listening on channel ten.” I think the local now hit his head
repeatedly on his desk as all fell silent.
The next conversation had us creased
up.
“Hello are you going to pass port to
port”
“Yes, that is my intention”
“I’m on the line can you move over a
little”
“No”.
Ten minutes later.......
”Hello, this is the captain speaking,
I wish to speak to your captain”.
“I am the captain”
“Are you going to move over”
“No”.
 LNG as we will call her, (name far too complicated to
understand or read) was not going significantly faster than Marlin 88 but radioed to say she wanted to
overtake on the port side. Mmmm. It took from 10:42 to 11:42
exactly.
          ALL IN ALL
GLEEFUL
FUN TO
WATCH |