Dressing the boat
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Wed 9 Nov 2011 23:30
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Every evening the ARC lays on a "sunset
rendezvous", which is a get together with a couple of free drinks plus
merchandise laid on by local suppliers trying to sell you stuff for the
trip. Today was cheese, sausages and mojitos. If you don't know what
a mojito is, it is a cocktail based on rum, lime and mint. We have
all enjoyed a few mojitos and are now back on Anastasia coming up on
creative ideas for "dressing" her.
Dressing a boat basically involves hosting all the
flags you have as high as you can. You have 40 signal flags (a-z, 0-9 and
four others) and the convention is that you lay them out in a special
sequence. The special sequence appears to have no meaning aside from
proving you can look up the right sequence on the internet, so we are looking to break with tradition and come up with a
sentence that uses all the letters and numbers in a meaningful way. There
are four "substitute" flags (sub1, sub2, sub3 and ans) and some numbers
look like letters (0 for o) and (6 for r), so we are going with
"the1quick2brown3f[sub1]x4j{sub2}mps5[sub3]v[ans]67lazy8d0g9"
Clearly more meaningful.
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