From the comparative safety of the liner’s wheelhouse, I tried with difficulty to hold the vessel on its course as the distressed vessel reared into the 100 mph-plus shrieking winds. Total focus was needed as like a cork in a storm the cargo vessel head-butted each massive oncoming wave.
Ballad of the Old Sailor . Oh, the salt and the sting of the wide open sea,Where the waves are wild, and the heart is free.With a creak of the mast, and a slap of the sail,I’d ride with the storm, or drift with the gale..I was young […]
All I Ask is a Tall Ship is a unique and soul-yearning evocation of this great romantic era. As you dreamily turn the pages of this almost spiritual pilgrimage you will breathe the aromas and taste the briny of a vast place on earth that remains enigmatically indifferent from its terrestrial counterpart.
One afternoon, whilst heeding a call of nature by using one of the dock toilets his eye caught sight of a copy of the Daily Telegraph. Bored, he flicked through the newspaper’s pages as he waited to discharge his cargo.
After reaching the dwelling’s top floor our group discovered a neatly formed queue where the hooker’s clients each waited their turn to ‘dip their hooks.’ Apart from us aliens standing patiently, a queue of Arabs were waiting their turn to make lurve.
MICHAEL WALSH – EX-MARINER Samuel Plimsoll (1824 – 1898) was an English politician and social reformer. He is best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line. This is a painted watermark on a ship’s hull indicating the ship’s maximum safe draught. If the weight of a loaded cargo pressed the vessel’s […]
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