Voyage of fancy

[joseph connor]

If I were a billionaire, I don't think a plain old millionaire could afford it , I would get Camel Lairds to build me a blueprinted copy of my first deep sea voyage ship , that would be Blue Flues Automedon but with all the latest navigational gear of course , and crew it entirely with us old sea dogs ,so that would be the Med suez , aden for bunkers , Singapore then Indonesia Borneo Sumatra, Java , Bali when a local volcano erupted turning day into night all hands out with brushes sweeping the ash off . those hot day sand sultry nights sleeping out under the stars , then back to Singapore calling at aden of course ,then Rejeka , Naples , Genoa , Home an easy six months all free, just one proviso you would have to put up with us deckies in the saloon, some of us are quite refined these days even wear a shirt to dinner !!!. What do you reckon iit would cost to have an old style ship built rivets and all now .? .

[Doc Vernon]

What a brilliant idea for spending a load of Moolah! LOL
Yes indeed Aden and Genoa and a few more along that coastline !
Marvellous Years of our lives!
Cheers

A good few Mill I would say! Eeeeek!!

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Joe.
Wonderful Idea but you would have to bunker somewhere else Aden get's hit with bombs regularly, but count me in for the rest.
Cheers Des

[Captain Kong]

If only we could turn back the clock ,
Those ports are not the same ports we all went to. They have changed for the worse, unreconiseable.

Just come back in March from some of those, JAVA, Tanjong Priok with Dedeh and her beautiful long hair past her waist , a flower in her hair and a bamboo hut with my rickshaw boys on guard outside. Sailing the perfumed seas of the Spice Islands, paradise was in a few bamboo huts, what a lovely life we had then. ALL GONE.
See my story in Seafaring Stories thread, in Swinging the lead. All gone,
Tanjong Just a Massive pile of Containers stretching all the way to Djakartaa. and rubbish every where. Totally unrecogniseable.
Bali, piles of garbage every where, scruffy,
Only Singapore that is a beautiful city left.
Aden being bombed by Saudi, and all those euriopean ports in the Med full of moo, sl1ms, from north Africa,
sorry to put a damper on it, Better to keep the memories.
Sorry.
Brian.

[cappy]

sadly brian that is the truth ....the world has changed ..the people have changed ......when i ist went to oz sydney was my ist port in 57.....there was one scyscraper which had an advert on ...the people were somehow different to talk to ......interesting and interested.....now it could be new york london paris ......individuality has gone .......the world is faster .....more devouring and more harsh ......smiles are rare seen now .....help your nieghbour is a thing of the past in general.....i am more watchfull of jealousy ......which was a word i never new .....we had perhaps nothing to be jealous of.....it now appears to be a sin to be succesful in any small way....people waiting for you to make a mistake .......people selling drugs to our youngsters world wide ....where is the punishment for such ......i dont think we had a woman mugged in shields as i grew up......the answer to me is in the laws .....todays lawbreaking repeaters would not repeat if the nicks were like the ozzie one in adelaide in 59......it was a harsh environment....even to a youngn of a tramp .....the threat of hanging was a true cause of fear ........laws should be backed by fear....that is mans major enemy.......i do not suggest the shylock ...POUND OF FLESH......but this is the law break it.... this is the punishment......no doubt some one will now say aha..the hang em and flog em brigade .....but no just rules all understand and penalties carried out ...,,well it worked when i was young and it would work now....jeez it was suggested yesterday i was on my soapbox ......but this is a soapbox i would shout loudest from.....strong laws strong penalties ......carried out ......i know of some who had the birch but none who went back for it twice ....when the so called hard man cries ......he doesnt want it again........protection for our elderly and young equals a true civilisation .....it must be kept at any cost.........cappy

[j.sabourn]

I must have been one of these weird ones Cappy, I had the stick and the cane more than once. Know what you are saying and quite agree, capital and corporal punishment should never have been done away with, the same as other punishments. When I say this in company people look down their noses as though I'm from the Iron Ages. The Western world today has no morals as such and all is based on worldly wealth and so called prestige and ones position in society. Our kids are being brought up by others say so, in fact our lives are ruled by others. To put the final cap on it our/your country will soon be ruled by others. Centuries to come the obvious thing that will happen if the world is still here manned by humans, will be one country or deity, probably the one with the biggest population, maybe that is the reason behind the thinking of letting all these aliens into Europe. I feel sorry for the present and future generations for not living a life that had personal targets to achieve rather than what they have now, claptrap about world banks and countries being in debt, which is all self inflicted by greedy people. Maybe if someone in the future may invent a time machine and be able to go back and see where all the mistakes were made. We can tell them most of this now, but who listens to old people who will soon be a burden on society as they know it. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

REmember reading a very interesting book way back in the 60's on one voyage.

It was 'Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy'. They did not mess about back in the days of Nelson, flogging was all the go. One practice which could be used today was 'flogging round the fleet'. The prisoner was lashed over a barrel in along boat which was towed around all the ships of the fleet in port. Ten lashes at each ship with the ships company all along the rails watching on.

Maybe use it in the high street stop at each shop! Nothing wrong with this said madam lash.

[gray_marian]

#7, Suppose it could also be used on a pub crawl too John

[Captain Kong]

A taste of the Lash never hurt anyone.
Capt. Bligh.


Brian

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[joseph connor]

Would nt !ike to put that to the test Brian ,!Ol..