Your most memorable or evocative "boaty" song or music

Does anyone else sing at sea?

Here are a couple that are quite good to belt out when surging along all 'andsome like, on a fine breeze...

The keeper of the Eddystone Light
Sloop John B
Son of a Son of a Sailor

Proper Sea Shanties,

Gilbert n Sullivan

And A life on the ocean wave (mentioned already)

Well, it passes the time and no one can hear you ( scream:))
 
Sitting in the cockpit wiuth a sundowner with the Royal Marines playing sunset just before you get the ensign in!

Or sea shanty CDs from the fisherman`s friends or a Guernsey group called GU10.

Listening to and joining in the large screen broadcast of the last night of the proms in St Peter Port and the bemused look of a group of fellow EU citizens from the french side of La Manche as we all sang Brittania Rules the Waves!!!
 
Blueboatman said:
Does anyone else sing at sea?

Here are a couple that are quite good to belt out when surging along all 'andsome like, on a fine breeze...

The keeper of the Eddystone Light
Sloop John B
Son of a Son of a Sailor

Proper Sea Shanties,

Gilbert n SullivanAnd A life on the ocean wave (mentioned already)

Well, it passes the time and no one can hear you ( scream:))[/QUOTE]

Here here. :)
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This thread is brilliant. I loved Go East, and the Tabarly video.

This is one of my favourites: In the Navy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw. The Muppets' version is very good but the original just beats it, I think.

Another favourite that always makes me think of sailing in a brisk breeze where the conditions are exciting and on the edge of getting scary (although it shouldn't as it has no nautical connections) is Lay All Your Love on Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcSSM7m1VVs&feature=fvwrel
 
Enya, Orinocco Flow (aka Sailaway). Got Watermark just before we sailed round Ireland in 1995 and been clocking up the ports over the last 17 yrs. Still missing Ross Dependancy, and unlikely to make it in my own boat.
 
Jimmy Buffet

Is reveered in the US as the boaters friend. I have a couple of his CD's but have never heard any of his music in the UK. One of my favouites of his is "I Wish I Had a Pencil Thin Moustache", try one & be entertained.
Stearman65
 
I came to sailing too late in life to get that "it all comes back to me" feeling. I suppose my equivalent is the way the smell of Castrol R makes me think "speedway!".

However the evocative song I heard a snippet of recently was Blacknore Light by the Pill Whalers. Now where can I find that on the interweb?
 
onesea said:
Your most memorable or evocative "boaty" song or music.

I was going to write I hate it and never want to hear it again. Then that would be to forget those for whom I have heard it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCiMdR1ox0

PS Keep up the good stuff, its the stuff they would rather of listened to :D:D:D
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I lost my uncle when HMS Goodall was torpedoed on 29th April 1945 off Murmansk. My grandparents received "The Telegram" on VE Day.

Lest we forget.
Thank you for your thread - whatever your feelings.
R
 
trapezeartist said:
I came to sailing too late in life to get that "it all comes back to me" feeling. I suppose my equivalent is the way the smell of Castrol R makes me think "speedway!".

However the evocative song I heard a snippet of recently was Blacknore Light by the Pill Whalers. Now where can I find that on the interweb?
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CASTROL R..................... Now you're talking!
 
Madam Medusa

In my year off between school & uni I crewed on the Ocean 71 Second Life on a delivery from Fort Lauderdale to Kos in Greece. The boat had an autoreverse tape player, and what with people sleeping below it was only listened to through the headphones plugged in at the helming position. As we helmed in one hour spells the same tape could stay on for days at a time. The trip was in feb/march 1981, and during the 3 days that it was blowing force 8 to 9 every time I took my trick on the helm UB40's album Signing Off (which on the cassette included the EP version of Madam Medusa) was playing. Now whenever I hear Madam Medusa, it takes me straight back to helming in that gale, with the boat surfing up to 14 knots downwind under bare poles. Yeeehah.
 
D, S, B and B,

We went to Sea to see the world and what did we see we saw the sea,

and a lot of rain in Panama,

J, S and H
 
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