Beware the Trent and Mersey!
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:03 am
The Eastburn Family may sail the open ocean, but a 55' narrow boat on the Trent and Mersey is another matter entirely!
On Friday, we sail from Long Eaton (where is that? Nottinghamshire? Derbyshire? ... some arctic region , no doubt) west sou'west by compass into the Trent and Mersey canal. Jonathan and Adam are being released from CH a day early to join us up there so the skipper looks to be wearing a peaked cap from his position aloft the main garboard strake, bellowing incomprehensible commands to a servile crew as he sips his daily grog.
Just in case any of you are boaters in those waters, I suggest you keep a sharp look-out for pirates or drunkards, and should you, by any chance, keep house in the vicinity, the skipper and his moll would welcome a dish o' tay ashore to calm his frazzled nerves.
On Friday, we sail from Long Eaton (where is that? Nottinghamshire? Derbyshire? ... some arctic region , no doubt) west sou'west by compass into the Trent and Mersey canal. Jonathan and Adam are being released from CH a day early to join us up there so the skipper looks to be wearing a peaked cap from his position aloft the main garboard strake, bellowing incomprehensible commands to a servile crew as he sips his daily grog.
Just in case any of you are boaters in those waters, I suggest you keep a sharp look-out for pirates or drunkards, and should you, by any chance, keep house in the vicinity, the skipper and his moll would welcome a dish o' tay ashore to calm his frazzled nerves.