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Moondancer - Monday 9th December 17.30 (GMT+1)




Fishing appendix 2 - Tales from the deep

A couple of things I forgot to mention Fish based.
Firstly when Maintenance catches a Dorada he has a rather clever way of preparing them. They have to be skinned rather than descaled so Maintenance holds down the slippery fella and first cuts behind the skin by the head.
He then needs both hands to hold him so he peels the skin back with his teeth removing one whole side at a time. It's like watching Gollum eat his dinner.He's using quite a lot of dental floss.
Flying fish! What's that all about? I mean what are they? a fish , a bird ? They should make up their mind. One of them flew on deck during my night watch and nearly caught me square on the jaw, I ducked and showed him the back door. I will make an official complaint later. And Dolphins, what is their Porpoise?

Now other matters
It turns out that this Atlantic thing is quite big. An enormous lake,a wind less expanse.
There is a couple of rumours about this expanse that I can confirm.
1. There is a Bermuda triangle of sorts. It is in actual fact 2 Isoceles triangles joined together making a? that's right a Rhombus.
2. There is such a thing as Aqua Nazi's. We've seen them. Like normal Nazi's but water based.
3. Squalls. Avoid them they said. Avoid them avoid them, they're the only place where there is any wind. We actively seek them out, its the only way to get the boat moving.

The Night sky
Everything in the night sky is named after some sort of confectionary
Mars, Milky Way, Starburst, Star bar, Galaxy, Planets, Kit Kat, Twix, crunchie and of course our old friend the curly wurly

Riz 87.

PS we are not I repeat not spending christmas out here in the ocean. There I've said it!




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