Waking up for the 2000h shift, we find
there's finally something on radar - which looks just as it does in
the movies. We have a unidentified bogey on our Five O'clock. (We
don't actually talk like that, but the passing thought amuses me,
because I it would amuse JJ and Vidal.) There's no response
on radio, but a we watch a distant red light in the darkness. We soon outpace
them and the tenuous excitement is over.
As we're coming upto arrive Stanley, shortly before
midnight, we're all on deck deconstructing our goose wing setup in a
now unwelcome thirty knot wind. I hadn't put up the part I am taking
down, and even given some instruction, I'm clueless and useless in equal measure.
The wind and cold is harsh and I'd greatly prefer to be ducked down in the wind sheltered doghouse, but everyone else is up here and Chris looks entirely unperturbed, so I've got to at least pretend to be hardened sailor.
The wind and cold is harsh and I'd greatly prefer to be ducked down in the wind sheltered doghouse, but everyone else is up here and Chris looks entirely unperturbed, so I've got to at least pretend to be hardened sailor.
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