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I was diagnosed diabetic - Type 1 - and it all came to a crashing end with the single stroke of a GP's pen. As I was also crew on my local lifeboat (RNLI), itr was a double whammy. 20 years gone 'jus' like that', as Tommy Cooper would have said.
Ended up going to Uni to do a degree - not a bad achievement for an AB who'd left school with just a bus ticket!
Would I go back to sea? Like a shot.
John
What great stories!!! I'm not a mariner; just the daughter of a mariner I'm trying to find. But I did sail on the QE2 in '73 as a passenger and I can sure understand the love you all have for the sea!!! I guess there aren't too many female mariners, are there?
Anyway, I think all of your stories would make a wonderful book. Matter of fact, I wouldn't mind writing a book myself. I could use all your stories, even make them anonymous, if you'd like. If nothing else, I've enjoyed reading these.
Cheers!
they were the very best years of my life but my father was found to be terminally ill and £26.00 per month was not going to help. after two days ashore i was earning£180.00.per week but i still longed for the sea. life plays some funny tricks on you but i spent another two years with my father and my mother wanted for nothing my last promise to my father was that i looked after my mother and i did.john
John, yes they were the best days of my life as well.
My partner knows this as when we go out of a weekend for a trip somewhere I always take a pair of 12x50 binos and a radio scanner with me (in case we stop somewhere near the water). Add to that I have AIS on the home PC and she says that if I wasn't medically unfiot for sea she'd never see me.:)
How right she is!
They were the best ofdays, the worst of them too. I don't look back with rose coloured glasses on it all but there are times when I do and see it for what it was to me; the biggest, the best adventure of my life.
Glad to see you're on too, mate!;)
Regards,
John
hi vernon this maybe a wee bit late but i have just read your story on how youand your brother was taken down well vernon all i can say you have nothing to be ashamed of there is a lot of us who have been on the wrong side of the law at sometime in our lives
i ask all members what would you do for one more trip around the world not as a passenger but a member of the crew. to watch a sunrise on a calm sea or the spray in a storm.john
I would sell the wife.
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Originally Posted by Captain Kong
Spoil Sport, I was going to sell her, that's what friends are for!
You can have her for a few bob Ivan,
Hope she doesnt see this. or I am dead.
Hey Kong. Sell mine !!!!!:p;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by Captain Kong