Crew Blog

A bit like watching Lenny Henry doing standup

04 March 2008

With the onset of good weather I am afraid to report that there has been an outbreak of white flesh amongst the aptly named testosterone watch (A Watch - all male, Neil, Hagen, Tore, Colin and Tony). For the second time in only a few days a large amount of pasty looking legs have appeared, particularly amongst Neil, Colin and Tony. More pallid looking flesh has only recently been seen at the white fish counter at ASDA. To date Hagen and Tore have kept themselves firmly covered up whilst shaking their heads at the new boys trying to emulate watch leader Neil.

It would appear that the other watches are keeping their own counsel,
presumably awaiting some Singaporean type weather although the odd mid layer does appear to be getting shed as we surf downwind to Hawaii - less than 3000 NM to go.

And as they said about one swallow not making a spring/summer, we wake up for the 9.00pm - 12.00am shift to be met by lightning, torrential rain and winds gusting to 67 knots - is that on the Beaufort scale? Life’s a beach.

Tony

I’m not letting Tony get away with that description. It’s like Micheal Fish’s forecast of the 1987 Hurricanes in the UK. It was horrible. The wind on your back felt like a bouncer in a nightclub picking you up and trying to throw you out (there’s an idea - safety harnesses in bars - you can say what you like). It reminded me of nearly every movie that you see where they film a big storm in a dark tank with extras chopping up the water and throwing buckets at you with wind turbines everywhere, except in this set no-one was shouting ‘CUT’

The person to come to the rescue was Ricky who was a legend and kept the situation calm and controlled. (Thanks by the way)

Throughout the whole ordeal my mind was thinking about my girlfriend, family and the fact that my new boots are keeping the water out really well. Strangely we never really felt unsafe, it was scary and uncomfortable - a bit like watching Lenny Henry doing standup. This is not the end, we will come back and we will be stronger starting with the soup that I am making for lunch.

Colin