Fw: " A LADY TRIP" Sailing around the World, ( presently at sea, between the Galapagos and the Marquesses Islands)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 18 May 2010 18:51
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----- Original Message -----
From: ALady (S.Hyde)
To: Arnaud Disant
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:03 PM
Subject: Fw: " A LADY TRIP" Sailing around the World, ( presently at
sea, between the Galapagos and the Marquesses Islands) ----- Original Message -----
From: ALady (S.Hyde)
To: A Lady
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:45 PM
Subject: " A LADY TRIP" Sailing around the World, ( presently at
sea, between the Galapagos and the Marquesses Islands) Total distance of this leg
.................3000miles
06..hrs Distance to
go................... 1104 miles
Position...........................................97:56S
120:30W
Distance travelled in last 24 hrs.........194
miles
Average speed over last 24hrs...........8.08
knots
Wind..............................................ESE 24 / 28
knots
WEDNESDAY 17th March St
Patricks Day
Uneventfull night, Cloudy and occasional
rain,
05.00hrs Dawn begins to break, Sunrise will
be much later,
Aileen has been on watch since 02.00hrs, she's
knackered, and skipper takes over the watch.
Only 42 flying fish today., smelly ones at that,
Whwat was originally a novelty is now becoming a nuisence.
10.00hrs Radio time ( 12.00 Galapagos
time 18.00 UTC grenwich meantime )
We have already sent our position by email to "
Eowyn"
We recieve all the positions of the other yachts,
and we are still well up there.
We wished everyone on the trip a happy " Paddys Day
"
We cleaned up the decks and got rid of the
fish,
Having coffee, we got into a discussion about some
of the participants falling overboard and how lucky they were to survive the
experience,
This reminded the skipper of the time his " Old
Man" ( John Hyde ) fell overboard while sailing towards the Old Head of
Kinsale
on " Teddy Pope's" yacht called
SUSETTE. They were off cruising down west and under spinniker at the
time.
Of course he couldent swim a stroke ( by the
way the skipper was about 6 at the time) and after a while let go the rope he
was hanging onto.
The wife explained that it took about 30 minutes to
retrieve the spinniker , take down the sails , start the engine and turn around
.
There is no sign of the " Old Man" anywhere,
Nothing, Oh Cripes and he cant swim,
Meanwhile , under the surface , John is
admiring the sun shining down through the waves ( he told the Skip. this
himself)
and knowing that it was just a matter of time
before he drowned, He said at this stage he was semi uncontious, but very
relaxed,
Then he thought " Oh My God ! I
have a young family and what will happen to them. thats what he
said,
( More like " I have a beautifull young Wife, and
family, so what gobshit will take them over)
Anyway whatever the reason, He started to pray like
he never prayed before, thats what he said, and whatsmore
He promised God, that if he ( god ) saved the
Old Man, then he would go to Mass and Holy Communion every day for the rest of
his life,
Thats a big Promise for any one to
make,
Meanwhile back on board the " Susette" theres
panic, no sign of John. They motor back towards where they think he fell
over,
but NO sign, In the end Teddy stops the boat,
not knowing what to do next,
Suddenly Gladys, ( the wife) looks over the side of
the boat , and Lo and Behold, there he is , right under the side of "
Susette"
They haul him out , pump him out and after a day
relaxing in the hospital in Kinsale, He was grand again.
But Hey ! The Promise, Well that man never
missed daily Mass or Communion to the
day he died at the age of 80 years.
Nice storey that ended well,
Back to our uneventfull dull Pacific crossing by
comparrison, However its a beautifull day now and we are sailing merrily
along.
The skipper read some more of the I.C.C. annual, an
excellent magazine with some great stories,
18.00hrs Fats prepares to do the
dinner,
Tonight it consists of chicken, cooked with veg in
a pot with a bottle of wine, ( good way of hiding how much we
drink)
also included was mashes potatoes, and too many
other things to mention, but it was yummy.
Oh , get a laugh on this,
Rally Control ( the organisers of this trip ) sent
us an email and suggested we cook a " sheppards pie" for paddys
day,
They even included a reciepe for the dish, which
included " Beef"
The Skipper thanked them very much, but pointed out
that " Shepperds" looked after Sheep, and not cattle,
and that the reciepe was for a cottage pie nad not
Shepperds Pie ( which of course you all know is made with lamb or
mutton)
Any way , We think they were trying to take
the piss out of the Irish, because of Paddys Day,
Long live Paddy
Tonights watch
:-
Aileen .................... 21.00 / 01.00hrs
Fats,........................01,00hrs / 05.00hrs
Skipper....................05.00hrs / 09.00hrs
Thats it for today,
Signed:-
Stephen Hyde ( Skipper )
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