I have never been a strong swimmer, and can remember being somewhere in the Med, and anchored off, and looking ashore was a lovely beach with the ladies in small swim suits etc, and three of us decided in the 1hr lunch break to swim over and have a beer. we all jumped in and started off, and at that point realised i had dropped a clanger, this was much further than it looked from the deck of the ship. The other two were much stronger swimmers, and went ahead, i was knackered, and at about half way , hung on to a small buoy for a rest, and then carried on and made the beach. Realised that by that time i could no way swim back, so all three of us managed to get a local with a small boat to run us back on board. The upshot was logged for missing most of the afternoon. The daft things we did, and got away with when young, kt