Danny Jo
Well-Known Member
Returning home after a sail around Anglesey, I was greeted by my two lovely daughters. It took them about three minutes to establish that (a) I had been on the raz in Holyhead last night and (b) I had thrown up on the return leg (in three knots of tide against 18 knots of wind).
At some stage I have to give some thought as to why I get up, to sail in predictably rough conditions, four and a half hours after retiring with a skinful. But the more pressing problem is how to present this abysmal behaviour to SWMBO, who is due home in two hours time.
My long-suffering crew suggested that I report that I made myself hoarse shouting at him. This won't do, because ma cherie knows that he's an ex-merchant seaman who has done enough sailing to wreck three boats in pursuit of his goal to explore South America.
I figure that the safest line is "I forgot to take my meclozine". (Well I would have taken it when I went to bed if I had been sober enough to think of it.) Any other suggestions?
Incidentally, I suppose I won't be the first to have noticed that it is much easier when it's dark to identify the four cardinals marking shipping hazards Northeast of Carmel head.
At some stage I have to give some thought as to why I get up, to sail in predictably rough conditions, four and a half hours after retiring with a skinful. But the more pressing problem is how to present this abysmal behaviour to SWMBO, who is due home in two hours time.
My long-suffering crew suggested that I report that I made myself hoarse shouting at him. This won't do, because ma cherie knows that he's an ex-merchant seaman who has done enough sailing to wreck three boats in pursuit of his goal to explore South America.
I figure that the safest line is "I forgot to take my meclozine". (Well I would have taken it when I went to bed if I had been sober enough to think of it.) Any other suggestions?
Incidentally, I suppose I won't be the first to have noticed that it is much easier when it's dark to identify the four cardinals marking shipping hazards Northeast of Carmel head.
