DaveNTL
Well-known member
on Long Island Sound and I wanted to move today too! No, honest I did!
The weather forcasts here have been very good to date too.
If the computerised woman on the weather channel (she has an american accent and the only perceptable speach impediment she has is saying 'tived' instead of tide) says it's going to be cold this afternoon you might as well take the hammock down because it will be, but this she didn't predict.
So now I have to go and chat to the Marina Manager (this is the one who, when I called for a waypoint to his exact spot, told me to take Junction 6 off the I.95) and persuade him that not many regulars will be coming in this weekend and he's much better off having me here to watch out for his other customers valuable property.
I'll avoid telling him it's going to be F8 because I learned early with the directions that he isn't into nautical terminology. When I explained that waypoint was latitude and longitude, North and West, he said, "oh, I have something here! It says 'North 40 circle, 55 feet and 789 inches by West 73 circle by 29 foot 784 inches' "
Then there was a silence whilst I held the mouthpiece of the mobile phone and wiped tears from my eyes and he scratched his head and he pondered at there being so many inches in a foot. Maybe it's different at sea?
So now what to do with the rest of the day / weekend?
Tived Lady tells me it's going to be fine by monday and I believe her. She's allowed a bad day like anyone else.
I'll probably just check the lines and springs, stop the bloody halyard rattling, and go back to bed for a bit and read what Jack Aubrey does next on HMS Surprise. Then come back here and read some threads that normally consist of some well meaning question, followed by a well meaning answer, followed by the answer being totally condemned by someone who knows better due to having sailed since before they were born and having 3 university degrees on the subject.
I have the latest series of Six Feet Under on dvd too but I'm saving that.
I could have another session of 'rearranging cupboards so that I know where everything is' but last time I did that I lost my toolbag.
So, what would you do on a grey windy weekend?
I'll come back later to see your creative answers.
Now I'm off to see the Marina Manager. Last I heard he was sueing his primary school teacher for selling him short of inches in his feet.
The weather forcasts here have been very good to date too.
If the computerised woman on the weather channel (she has an american accent and the only perceptable speach impediment she has is saying 'tived' instead of tide) says it's going to be cold this afternoon you might as well take the hammock down because it will be, but this she didn't predict.
So now I have to go and chat to the Marina Manager (this is the one who, when I called for a waypoint to his exact spot, told me to take Junction 6 off the I.95) and persuade him that not many regulars will be coming in this weekend and he's much better off having me here to watch out for his other customers valuable property.
I'll avoid telling him it's going to be F8 because I learned early with the directions that he isn't into nautical terminology. When I explained that waypoint was latitude and longitude, North and West, he said, "oh, I have something here! It says 'North 40 circle, 55 feet and 789 inches by West 73 circle by 29 foot 784 inches' "
Then there was a silence whilst I held the mouthpiece of the mobile phone and wiped tears from my eyes and he scratched his head and he pondered at there being so many inches in a foot. Maybe it's different at sea?
So now what to do with the rest of the day / weekend?
Tived Lady tells me it's going to be fine by monday and I believe her. She's allowed a bad day like anyone else.
I'll probably just check the lines and springs, stop the bloody halyard rattling, and go back to bed for a bit and read what Jack Aubrey does next on HMS Surprise. Then come back here and read some threads that normally consist of some well meaning question, followed by a well meaning answer, followed by the answer being totally condemned by someone who knows better due to having sailed since before they were born and having 3 university degrees on the subject.
I have the latest series of Six Feet Under on dvd too but I'm saving that.
I could have another session of 'rearranging cupboards so that I know where everything is' but last time I did that I lost my toolbag.
So, what would you do on a grey windy weekend?
I'll come back later to see your creative answers.
Now I'm off to see the Marina Manager. Last I heard he was sueing his primary school teacher for selling him short of inches in his feet.