" GET OFF MY TOES "
POSITION : 19°44•1 N 039°05•1 W
DATE/TIME : 5/12 AT 16:02 UTC
MOOD: SILLY
Today is the 5th of December, and we have been celebrating - of course in style - 1350nm as halfway to our target destination,
S.Lucia.
DATE/TIME : 5/12 AT 16:02 UTC
MOOD: SILLY
Today is the 5th of December, and we have been celebrating - of course in style - 1350nm as halfway to our target destination,
S.Lucia.
But not all went according to plan.
Around half an hour after midnight both our plotters stopped receiving the position signals ( GPS ), so they went blank. We switched them off, got our old handheld emergency ones out, and continued through the night.
Around half an hour after midnight both our plotters stopped receiving the position signals ( GPS ), so they went blank. We switched them off, got our old handheld emergency ones out, and continued through the night.
 As if I had known ! Because yesterday I had started sharpening up my astro-navigation skills. As a friend of mine , " Stockey" Woodall from the Isle of Wight, always says : Put the sex back into the sextant. However I really must sharpen up, because in these wavy conditions I was not exactly precise in my position findings. But here you are : Improvement doesn't know boundaries ! Now this morning we tried to communicate with our back-up office, but you try to get a Marine Engineer in Croatia talking to you during the winter season. Forget about it. He is either hybernating, or on holidays somewhere in the Caribbean. Great. But after a while we simple switched from the external to the internal antenna, and the plotters worked again. Simplicity is the father of inventions. But unfortunatley all our track , our waypoint recordings, all that is gone . Pity, we wanted to have a nice memorabilia. Now I have to put the log book positions onto a chart and copy it for the crew . Thank you Father Christmas ! |  The day nevertheless improved. We celebrated our achievement in style. And Fati worked extra hours again. The results are always appreciated, but this time beyond belief. |
Have you ever thought about marriage ?
Now you are surprised that I raise this issue , right ?
Or may be you are married ?
Have you ever raised your voice saying : "GET OFF MY TOES "
or something to that effect ?
Do you realise that people get best along with each other in a marriage when they don't see each other that often. Now I am convinced there are some folk out there who will disagree with this statement, but that is what I believe in.
Anyway, that makes life on a boat so difficult.
You can't hide.
You have 5 people, cramped in a tight space, and in order to do that, you have to set up some rules and call to order when things get out of hand. The skipper has to do that, usually. But it is not easy to understand all the time what is "horse" and what is "carriage".Otherwise you either have a mutiny, or foul mood, or else.
So it is interesting to understand what characters you are dealing with when you go to sea with them.
Remember,
friendships have been lost, indeed marriages have been broken up when on board a ship ,
and nothing worked according to plan, or what ever other reason there was.
On Champagne, the characters on board continue in their endevours to wind each other up.
Now you are surprised that I raise this issue , right ?
Or may be you are married ?
Have you ever raised your voice saying : "GET OFF MY TOES "
or something to that effect ?
Do you realise that people get best along with each other in a marriage when they don't see each other that often. Now I am convinced there are some folk out there who will disagree with this statement, but that is what I believe in.
Anyway, that makes life on a boat so difficult.
You can't hide.
You have 5 people, cramped in a tight space, and in order to do that, you have to set up some rules and call to order when things get out of hand. The skipper has to do that, usually. But it is not easy to understand all the time what is "horse" and what is "carriage".Otherwise you either have a mutiny, or foul mood, or else.
So it is interesting to understand what characters you are dealing with when you go to sea with them.
Remember,
friendships have been lost, indeed marriages have been broken up when on board a ship ,
and nothing worked according to plan, or what ever other reason there was.
On Champagne, the characters on board continue in their endevours to wind each other up.
 Pieter , or better Mr Knotty , is still all over the place, usually hitting something or himself, especially at night, when he hits with the 7 fingers of his right hand all 7 buttons of the autopilot to ensure that all 7 alarms can go off at the same time. |  Jim, the stoic one, the one where you can drop a bomb next to him and he still doesn't wake up. His habit is to suck on a water bottle for the whole day. Without this bottle he is lost, he almost started crying the other day when he couldn't find it, but of course, unless you are a genoa pole, nothing gets lost on this boat. |  Ian is a totaly different character. He is the one who goes along with everything. He is " Mr Nice Guy : But he can't decide though. You give him two options , he will say: Either, don't mind. That' s what I call "Caribbean Spirit". |  Fati, the moody one, the one who can't talk in the morning, so don't you dare trying, because she might throw a knife at you. Women, always the same ! But her cooking skills are beyond belief. (So are her paintings) We dare not say anything ! |
Well, and there is me,
Master Mike.
Probably a little bit of everybody else's "deficiencies", good and bad.
Thankfully we are all different,
which makes life so beautiful and interesting !
Master Mike.
Probably a little bit of everybody else's "deficiencies", good and bad.
Thankfully we are all different,
which makes life so beautiful and interesting !
OH DEAR, MM, WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS ?
So we are a good mix of you lot out there to the extent that we all get along with each other quite well.
And why not.
"Normal"
people never have problems
with each other,
it is always
"the others"
who are the troublemakers.
Right ?
Best, Master Mike.
And why not.
"Normal"
people never have problems
with each other,
it is always
"the others"
who are the troublemakers.
Right ?
Best, Master Mike.
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