Aha ahoy ahoy

Ahoy ahoy as the sun was setting and the seagulls crying, we are away and on the high seas again. And it is round the Cornish coast, but before we get to the Bay of Biscay and the Azores, a quick fruit and veg stop on the southern Irish coast where so many of the sailors hail from who were press ganged. The USS Venerati Frati is in sight here in the Queenstown harbour of old Cobh and there is another German aka Prussian ship in the estuary too - a 37 gunner the identity of which cannot be revealed at this time. So too is a pretty schooner from the Peck school of ship-building at Meredith dockyards where Dickie Greeneleafe has his boatyard in the Hudson River called The Roman Holiday which is always nice to see as it is a romantic skip with a pretty girl on the deck - a real memphis belle showing off her feathers - feathers !! The Talented Miss Ripley one assumes. Anyway, we are off then round the cape of Valentia to the Azores to find us a Portuguese man o war - not the slippery jellyfish kind that one might expect in those waters near the Armada graveyards but a real Portuguese carrick, friendly though not foe as Britain and Portugal enjoy the oldest alliance in Europe dating back to 1200.