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Resolute of Thames - Greetings From the Green Dot



Seems like I started something with the Hunger Games analogy. I now understand we are a green dot, not I must say after some 30 years in the Army, my favorite colour. I also understand we are 35th out of a fleet of 36. 26 of the fleet are rated as faster than us by WCC - so they have to beat us by a country mile (to mix the metaphors) in order to get above us in the final rankings. Then there are the engine hours. As this is a Rally we are allowed to motor but the game makers add in a fudge factor to negate any advantage this might bring.

As an aside:

ONE. - I hate motors - I grew up on a boat were in order to start the wretched thing you had to put a piece of special wadding into a plug on the side of the engine and turn a handle - alright it was an old boat even then. I grudgingly admit that most modern diesel engines, given clean fuel, some air and a well charged battery normally start once the key is turned - but for how long do they keep running? Our original engine in Resolute was a Thornycroft which was rated at 50HP but most of the horses left sometime ago and when the gearbox and fuel pump failed simultaneously we cut our loses and re-engined with a new bright red Beta 50. I thought we had an understanding, I followed the servicing schedule to the letter. She produced horsepower and amps on demand. That is until yesterday when the game makers sabotaged the fan belt - just to make sure we were both awake for one watch and so they could see the effect of me ripping our home apart on Gilly-mate.

TWO - The wind - If you, the forecaster, had been able to listen to the morning fleet chat on the radio you would understand you are not popular because despite your forecast there is nothing Northly about the wind. Boats either have no wind or like us are still beating into a South Westerly.

So we need you, dear reader to do something, you kindly lobbied the game makers to turn the wind control up a tad and that, at least temporality, seems to be the case. If they could now ask them to move the wind machine to anywhere in the world other than over St Lucia the whole fleet would be grateful. If they can do it in a manner which allows us to be the first boat to actual point our bow at the target and sail there I promise to remain more loyal to the wind than the motor. Oh and by the way if you see the guy that writes our weather forecasts - best warn him that he is not popular. Remember the film Flushed Away, an upper class pet rodent has to make a life for himself in the sewers of London and in doing so finds a new strength of character in order to defeat a bunch of French mercenaries (who happen to be frogs), well after this morning's diatribe I suspect those mercenaries are about to reappear employed by the crew of a OVNI 445. I shall muse on the new plot for a couple of days whilst busy going nowhere.





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