Why Where when& How did you leave the sea?

[John Griffiths]

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

[Jacyn Wade]

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!

[John Pruden]

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 Griffiths]

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

[Lou Barron]

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

[John Pruden]

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

[Captain Kong]

I would sell the wife.

[Ivan Cloherty]

I would sell the wife.

Spoil Sport, I was going to sell her, that's what friends are for!

[Captain Kong]

You can have her for a few bob Ivan,
Hope she doesnt see this. or I am dead.

[Michael Lawrence]

I would sell the wife.

Hey Kong. Sell mine !!!!!