The weather forecast on the radio last
night was terrible for today, with rain wind and cold, like being at sea in a
force twelve+. I am not sure how many of you have been out at sea in a force
twelve+ but I can tell you it is not nice. The best place to be is on the
bridge with the captain and his trusty lieutenant. Well I thought it was until
you realize they are both saying OH ********* look at that wave ***********
*****. It is also odd that one minute you can see nothing but sky the ship
shaking and pointing upwards at rather an acute angle, then the next second the ship seesaws, there is a huge bang and you are looking down and all you see
is sea, no sky just a wall of water……WELL COOL?. The bit at the bottom before going up again is
best left out of this story however.
This is the very ship that I sailed through the force twelve+ storm on when it was called
The Shearwater Sapphire. I was up on the Bridge standing forth window from the port side.
Still the point is it can
get wet, so I made sure that everyone went to school today suitably dressed for
this possible rain and stuff, with sou’wester coat and hat and waders. I also
took the precaution of ensuring everyone had lifejackets and associated
survival equipment, just in case of
flooding. As it turned out though the
weather was not quite that bad in fact it did not rain until almost midday and
even then it was more just drizzle and grey skies. This was not good, you would
think that it was good but no, not when you have convinced everyone at school
to dress up in several layers of waterproof rubber and lifejackets plus big
waders and thick gloves. I was very
worried as I was unable to runaway from the angry masses who said I had made
them all look like IDIOTS, luckily although I was unable to move little faster
than a snail neither could anyone else. As I tried to escape along the high
street chased by forty five angry people we appeared to panic a bus tour from Japan who thought that they were being attacked
by strange bright yellow rubber Zombie creatures from the dark swamps of
darkest Wales ,
“Swamp Zombies”.
The Japanese according to
the dog are easily spooked by angry mumbling Swamp Zombies as a result of a
series of badly made cult films in the sixties and early seventies that has left
an indelible mark on their nations psyche
I did escape in the end,
when I met one of the Fighting Fishermen of Fishguard (from the A to Z challenge) who thought I was
his lucky mascot from his trusty trawler, being perused by EU fishermen complaining about the British Whelk.
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I feel seasick just reading your description of the Force 12 - uugg!! Hope you kept your sea legs.
ReplyDeleteI was OK because two days before while we had been in a rather calm sea, I had been very seasick. By the time we hit the big storm I was fine, the only concern was whether the ship would make it out the other end in one piece.
DeleteWow, Rob, what an adventure! I get motion sickness easily. Funny, it doesn't happen if I'm on a cruise ship, but it's a real problem when I'm in anything smaller.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty cute how you had everyone all mega-suited up for disaster. :D I don't blame you--I'd do the same thing.
There are many adventures associated with the Shearwater Sapphire, the sea, robot submarines and North Sea Tigers.
DeleteBut no one wants to know about reality and living on the edge do they.....
Ungrateful people, they wouldn't have been mad at you if it had rained as much as you thought! Technically they should blame the weatherman, you were just the messenger :)
ReplyDeleteWell I probably need to take a bit of the blame I think I was listening to the Maharashtra regional weather forecast and not Shropshire
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