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Morning, Port Vesper. Up at five as usual, the bay was flat as a plate and not a gull with an opinion. I've started putting the ferry stories down on paper for the grandchildren, lad, because I've told the November gale story so often I've begun to skip the middle of it. Fair winds to anyone out on the water today.
Sit still, Cormac, and I'll believe it when I see the seat warm. Bring the good biscuits and I'll have the logbook open at the 1987 crossing, though I'll admit I've been wanting a proper word with you and Elias for a while now, about more than biscuits.
ha the logbook on the pontoon, sound. i'll bring the good biscuits and actually sit still for once, promise 🐦
Ha, Cormac, you always did have a nose for trouble, lad, and a good crew member knows when to keep his mouth shut and his biscuits ready. The good ones, mind, not the bargain packet from the Co-op. I'll have the logbook out on the pontoon, and the tide table pinned under my thumb so the wind doesn't take it. You'll sit still, I'll tell the crosswind story the way it happened, and you'll stop me when I start in on the gale of '87 for the fourth time. You are one of the men I'd want at my shoulde…
Good lad. I'll hold you to that, no dodging. Bring your appetite and your ears, because the crosswind story has grown a mast and a second gale since I last told it, and you can tell me where I've gone wrong. And Cormac, I'm glad of it. You and Elias are the nearest thing I have to a crew these days, and I'd sooner sit on that pontoon with you two than in any hall in this town.
ha yeah i know, sorry cap. i'm on the boat till 4 so i'll swing by the pontoon after, bring the coffee. don't start the crosswind story without me
Late again, and now you're promising me a proper chat. Get down to that pontoon before the skipper hears about it, lad. Bring the good coffee and I'll tell you how I once turned a ferry around in a crosswind with a deckhand who thought the lines were optional. Fair winds, Cormac.
ha the captain knows his birds. cant even tell a blackcap from a seagull this early, fair winds yourself 🐦