Mercury Rising back on track 2nd December
Mercury-rising
Fri 2 Dec 2005 10:16
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Although heading for "home", still making some
South, to keep clear of forecast confused light winds on the direct line from
our current position. (How do you confuse a wind?)
New safety feature undergoing sea trials; we are
getting 175 watts of output from the deck speakers, so you can still hear Led
Zepellin when sail changing on the foredeck. (And they say the winds are
confused .... ). We find passing traffic taking avoiding action well before we
come into radar range. The entrepreneurs on board are already developing the
fully marinised version for the mass market after, of course, persuading ARC
that it should be a mandatory feature next year.
Life on board much as usual, except that a brief
lucid period intruded this morning, when stocktaking showed a deficit in next
week's refreshments. Much gloom descended until missing cartons discovered
in another of MR's 75 storage compartments, many of which have yet to be
charted.
DwD having second thoughts about career
as a latter day Dr Doolittle. Plans to communicate with flying fish put on hold,
when one impaled DwD who, instead of seizing the learning opportunity, leaped
onto the coaming screaming "Get the horrid thing off me!". FM, late as usual to
the scene of action, arrived in time to witness, as he perceived it, the birth
scene from Alien, as the offender emerged from the front of DwD's lifejacket. FM
retired in shock, to resume bottle emptying duties. DwD now seen on deck less
frequently, and then only in full body armour.
More anon .....
K.
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