What was....

[Captain Kong]

My first watch as a 3rd Mate of a 256,000 dwt VLCC, I was AB on the same ship the year before.
Surviving a helicopter crash into the ocean south of Cape Town.
Arriving in Tahiti for the first time, having seen Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Laughton.
Walking down Broadway and in Times Square in New York for the first time in 1955, magic. just like the movies.
Sat next to Grace Kelly in the Market Diner in New York. she didn't know I was me or history would have been different.
A Party for ten of us off a banana boat on Errol Flynn`s yacht ZACCA at Naval island in Port Antonio, Jamaica, 1954..
Getting drunk with Errol Flynn in Palma Majorca 1957.
Helping to Deliver both my two sons at home when the midwife was late.
Climbing to the top of Mount St Helens in Washington State after it had blown.
Having a tot of Rum at Shackletons graveside on South Georgia after coming in from the Antarctic.
Going to many isolated Islands, Pitcairns, Easter, Tristan da Cunha, St Helena, Ascension. Fanning Isle and many more.
Meeting Overseas lads off this site, John Adamson in Long Beach, Lou in Dunedin, HD John and Neil in Melbourne, Vernon, Roger, Richard and John in Sydney, John Sabourn in West Australia.
and surviving a few disasters.
Cheers
Brian.

[John Pruden]

brian to say nothing of the famous pen+wig Liverpool?? jp

[DeepSea]

All the Brazilian girls who took advantage of me as a boy sailor in Santos and Angra dos Reis.

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[John Pruden]

I was pure as the driven snow but I DRIFTED....jp

[John Albert Evans]

First trip away at sea on an Everades coastal tanker MV Acuity. Leaving Bromborough Dock in the evening, raining slightly, and sailing down the River Mersey, fully loaded, standing and chatting with one of the deckhands on the starboard side above the welldeck with the Mersey washing over the side and onto the deck. I was 16 years of age and I can still see it now 57 years later. I am glad that I joined and I've never looked back with any regret.
As far as other memorable moments, well far too many to tell.

John Albert Evans.

[Red Lead Ted]

Marian, Imagine the scene walked into a bar in Barbados 1971. I was with a great mixed crew tramping around the Caribbean on an old Haines boat I was with a bunch of Geordie boys at the time great lads. My mate Terry Owens got the beers in sat down and said casual like there is a scouse mate of yours sat the other side of the bar !!!!!!!!!! Really stood up walked around the bar only to see John Lennon @Yoko Ono sat there I cant to this day tell you what words were exchanged I was gob smacked, As they stood to leave the bar he clicked his fingers at the barman and pointed at me the barman brought me a bottle of rum signed bon voyage Terry J Lennon. It rolled of the top of my locker at sea a few weeks later and smashed on the deck of my cabin. I could have been worth a fortune now Story of my life Maz Terry.

[happy daze john in oz]

I was pure as the driven snow but I DRIFTED....jp

And we all know what happens to snow..................................it turns to slush LOL.

[Les Woodard]

Marian, Imagine the scene walked into a bar in Barbados 1971.--- Story of my life Maz Terry.

Mate after reading about this I have been tormented to the extent of having to ask you? When that bottle smashed on the deck was it empty. Please oh please confirm that it was.

[Captain Kong]

I find that if I wake up in the morning it is very exhilarating. at my age a lot of mates never do.
Brian.

[John Pruden]

treat every day as if its your last ONE DAY YOU WILL BE RIGHT? enjoy every minute and never let anything get you down?jp