A Conversation for Wind force twelve abaft the Beam
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Kes Posted Nov 19, 2001
Would tht be the bit shaped like an old boot up here on the chart? *points* We are sort of headed in that direction ... about half way up ...somewhere around where the knee should be. Amalfi! Helmsman! Left hand down a bit!
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 19, 2001
Um, yes, Italy it was. But were in Italy were we supposed to go first? 
Wake me up before we get there, will you, please? I would like to study the interior decorating of some of the bars in the harbour 
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Nov 19, 2001
*the whistle in the speaking tube is blown with such force that it is ejected from the horn...
alec, speaking in a tubular voice, is heard to say
" If this is Amalfi, can we stop for a bit ? Theres this trattoria / ristorante with the best gnocchi ever...I left my shades there...wonder if they've still got them..." *
alessandro.
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Researcher 179388 Posted Nov 19, 2001
Ooooh
*feels slightly giddy at the name 'Alessandro'*
But he's in Sestri Levante 
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Nov 19, 2001
*squeaking tube replies : " erm sorry caerwynn...i just started feeling sort of ...erm...mediterranean for a moment..."*
ciao
alec.
*
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 20, 2001
Enough of all these tubular schpells
Let's drink to Amalfi 
And Alessandro the great
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Kes Posted Nov 21, 2001
....and St Andrew ...don't forget him! pirates or not, we are all sailors!
*Fiddles with dividers and parallel rulers on the chart*
If the wind holds, we should be off the Amalfi coast by the end fo the forenoon watch. Does anyone know where the handbrake is on this ship? .. or failing that, can someone operate the anchor? 
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shagbark Posted Nov 21, 2001
Do you mean that big piece of scrap iron at the end of a chain?
I thought the captain traded that to a scrap iron dealer for a case of schnaps.
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Kes Posted Nov 21, 2001
In that case (not of schnapps), tie the ATGC to the end of the anchor chain and hope it holds!
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Kes Posted Nov 21, 2001
*Points to chart, gets out calculator*
Well ...as you can see from the length of the bisector of the fundamole here, and the variation in magnetic North, then given the tidal flow and prevailing winds, we should reach Italy round about ....
*The ship shudders slightly, and there is the sound of a gravelly scrunching from the keel. Kes looks very embarrassed*
Er ...if there's anybody here for (*points at chart*) there .... well ...we're here!
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 21, 2001
*yells into the intercom:*
Amalfi - Amalfi - passengers are requested to leave from the portside of the ship. There will be no service in the main mess as long as this ship staus in the port.
Smoking on the car decks is not allowed
Thank you!
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Munch Dûnadan, The Technical Cynical Heifer & Actor Posted Nov 21, 2001
*Enters*
OOoooo, never been here before.
*Stands quietly/politely at the back, watching*
*Scuffs boot on gratings, looks around*
*Scratches nose*
Erm...
*Whistles quietly- decides to stop it*
*Looks at instruments*
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mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) Posted Nov 22, 2001
~ring ring ring~
Hello? Bridge? Crow's Nest here. Uh. Land Ho... Um. I want to report that we have kind of scrunched up onto Italy. I would have been looking out, but I just was bungee jumping and it slipped by me, sort of. Sorry. Um.
Well, Land Ho anyhow.
Bye...
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plato <surfer> Posted Nov 22, 2001
*gets out to examine the damage*
Egad!
There's a scratch in the paint! *flips out*
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- 281: Floh Fortuneswell (Nov 18, 2001)
- 282: Kes (Nov 19, 2001)
- 283: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 19, 2001)
- 284: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Nov 19, 2001)
- 285: Researcher 179388 (Nov 19, 2001)
- 286: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Nov 19, 2001)
- 287: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 20, 2001)
- 288: Kes (Nov 21, 2001)
- 289: shagbark (Nov 21, 2001)
- 290: shagbark (Nov 21, 2001)
- 291: Kes (Nov 21, 2001)
- 292: Researcher 179388 (Nov 21, 2001)
- 293: Kes (Nov 21, 2001)
- 294: Researcher 179388 (Nov 21, 2001)
- 295: Floh Fortuneswell (Nov 21, 2001)
- 296: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 21, 2001)
- 297: Floh Fortuneswell (Nov 21, 2001)
- 298: Munch Dûnadan, The Technical Cynical Heifer & Actor (Nov 21, 2001)
- 299: mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) (Nov 22, 2001)
- 300: plato <surfer> (Nov 22, 2001)
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