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[hawkwing_lb]

I'm back.

The first thing I did, when I got home, was throw my stuff into the washing machine. The second thing I did was get into a shower and stay there for forty minutes, scrubbing the whole time. I hadn't had a shower since Donegal, since I was on watch at Bangor when the others got to shower.

God, that was close quarters and an icky smell of feet. But an interesting week. Incredible, really.

Third thing I did was take the disposable camera down to get the pictures developed. Then I crawled into bed and slept for two whole marvellous hours on a wide bed that didn't smell of feet or damp.

Notes on the trip and pictures will follow, when I can manage them. I now know lots about the tallship STV Asgard II, even if I was too chicken to stow and set the square sails.

Also, I am fat. The ship's cook on the Asgard is apparently quite reknowned. Three meals a day, full Irish breakfast, desert after dinner, generous portions, really great ship-made bread... Yeah. Back on the minimal eating habit regime now.

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I think it would have been really cool to be in your ship, sailing around the Bay. Only we would have needed more crew. Plus we wouldn't have been able to get into the smaller part of the Magothy River (http://www.division-1.org/flotilla-18/magothy.html).

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The American Sail Training Association (ASTA (http://www.tallships.sailtraining.org/about/index.php?PHPSESSID=5eef9138f6fe4554b9b38f76bbd15b71) probably does sail around your bay there. :)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Hm. Son's not quite old enough yet -- just a few more years for the high school programs.

Now if I'd known about these when I was younger, I'd have jumped at the chance myself.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Some tallships take people of any age - I know the Jeanie does - so if you're still interested, the possibility yet remains. :)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Ooh, EEEE-vil. You've been paying attention, I see. Well done, there.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

One does one's poor best.

Three of the boys on the Asgard were in their fifties, and one could've been sixty. I didn't ask. :)