Tuesday 25 October 2011

Aha splice the mainbrace mateys

Splice the mainbrace, shoot up the nest, ride the headwind, shin up the main mast. This is the stuff of legend, sailing the seven seas. Righty ho mateys, that's what we are here for, cutting through the warm waters down here near the Bahamas, like the mercantile schooners the Thermopylae and the Cutty Sark, or the square riggers, the Lightning and the Nightingale. Tis a lovely sight to see such graceful square riggers, so low astern, slicing through such blue waters, the Sark captained by Sir William Petrino Cobbett, hero of many a run across the Atlantic, and her sister ship the Nightingale, captained by a jerk-knee reactive seamen called Capt Murphy the OC DSO GCSE. A fine couple of full riggers that emit a lovely shrill whistling sound like an old Spoonerism sound as their bows cut through the warm Bahama waters. Ah yass tis a lovely sight to behold for an old seadog like meself. Gorgeous couple of sarks needing a lot of protection from the infernal kids on the seas that are these Carib pirates. The hairy pirate on the Old Sea Wolf, Barbarossa, helas is never too far away from the Caymans and his infamous daughter pirate the Keira Kay on the Amber Pearl are never far from such beautiful ships in these warm and shallow and transparent but treacherous waters. Ah yass tis a grand consolation for an old timer on the high seas like meself. But the Royals are hard about and astern to look after such delicate mercantile seamen. Oh yass tis mete that the Repulse might protect. Ahoy there mateys.

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