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posted by The Warbler | 9/22/2005 10:42:00 PM
7 Comments:
Reading this makes me want to call the samaritans!
For me, not you. Although...
Hope you are doing ok.
: )
Here's some nautical stuff for all ye pirates and denizens of the deep. First, there is the notion of "innocent passage." Any ship crossing territorial lines of one country bound to another are quaranteed innocent passage, not unlike a child growing up. This concept has been pretty much disregarded these days but it is still pretty much the law of the sea.
"Safe harbor" is the second one. In a storm or when the ship is sinking, see, it is allowed to come into the first port of entry it can find (an old pirate's joke - any port will do in a storm!). Safe harbor means just what it says, ma'am, the safety from the big waves and closeness to the docks, where you can refit your ship and be on your way.
Nobody can deny innocent passage or a safe harnor, ma'am. However, nor can anybody guarantee them. You don't want to be the object of a salvager, who can claim your ship if it in danger of sinking.
Arghh, many of those salvagers are nothing more than freebooters and buccaners themselves, more concerned with the ship goodies than the people on them, so be carful ma'am.
Ease your rudder, back the stays'l, raise the main close-hauled to angle the keel, and ease her off the sandbar and come back to the safe harbor, ma'am, is my suggestion. You'll be free then.
Sam
National "talk like a pirate" day
Gee, Sam, I'd take your suggestion, but I don't know a stays'l from a hole in the ground and I certainly am not gonna "angle" any keel until I know if it involves my signing anything! (smirk)
Hi Warbler, Well I get denser and denser the older I get and it took me two readings of this missive to figure it all out. Wish ther was something I could say, as I do understand the feelings ou are having. I used to get them every time the ship or squadron i was with was pulling out for a niine month to a year deployment to god knows where. Hang in there sweetheart, it WILL get better! Love Everett
Damn, I've GOT to get better control of these fingers!! Or at least go back and read the comment BEFORE I post it !!
Not to worry, Capt'n, us sailors ain't known for perfect dictioneering. Best to stick to words like "Avast!" and "belay that."
As to mariner talk, I've known many that didn't know their mast from a shoal in the ground (a subtle play on words, ma'am)... but that horrible sinking feeling is universal.
So may the wind be at yer back with smoother sailing, sailing large, and bye the bye.
Don't worry about those typos, Everett, I just thought you were using a French accent!
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