Anyone know any Sailors lore? such as, "Wind from the East, 10 days at least" or "If to starboard red appears, tis your duty to keep clear" and all that sort of thing.
Too many to remember, too many to list
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Meeting steamers do not dread
When you see three lights ahead
Port your helm and show your red
Perfect safety, go ahead.
If to starboard red appear,
'Tis your duty to keep clear;
To act as judgement says is proper,
Port, or starboard, back, or stop her.
But, when upon your port is seen
A steamer's starboard light of green,
There's not so much for you to do;
For green to port keeps clear of you.
Both in safety and in doubt
Always keep a good look-out;
In danger with no room to turn,
Ease her, stop her, go astern.
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That last also exists as
If in danger or idoubt
slow her, stop her, back her out
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or in the Grey Funnel line
When in danger or in doubt
Don't run in circles, scream and shout,
Go down and call the captain out.
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Colregs lights yields
Red over Red, captains Dead
Red over White, Pilots right
To be fair - I think the verses were initially aimed at the Merchant Navy - although my Old Man took a friends destroyer astern up Sliema creek in Malta so fast the stern wave flooded over the stern deck. The Admiral (or whoever was IC that squadron) was apparently ever so slightly cross.
One day a Jew, a Hindu, and a scouser all arrived at their hotel to find that there had been a mix-up with the bookings, and that there was only
one room left for them to share. The manager explained that this room only had two beds, but that there was a barn at a neighbouring farm
which the farmer, an old friend of his, would let one of them sleep in free of charge.
They complained a bit, but since there was nowhere else to go, the Jew graciously said he'd sleep inthe barn. The Hindu and the scouser were
just settling down to sleep in their room, when there was a knock on the door. It was the Jew.
"I'm sorry," he said, "but there's a pig in that barn and because I'm Jewish I feel uncomfortable about sharing the barn with it." "No problem," said the Hindu. "I'll sleep out there instead." So off he went to the barn, leaving the scouser and the Jew to share the room.
They were just settling down to sleep, when there was a knock on the door. It was the Hindu. "I'm sorry," he said, "but there's a cow in that
barn and because I'm a Hindu I feel uncomfortable about sharing the barn with it."
The scouser grudgingly agreed to give up his bed and stomped off to the barn, leaving the Jew and the Hindu to share the room.
The Jew and the Hindu were just settling down to sleep, when there was a knock on the door.
It was the cow and the pig
Brendan (the Welshman) gave up his bed, and went out to the Barn, and in the morning 240 sheep were seen lying fast asleep, with cigarette butts in their mouths, exhausted but happy?