Saturday morning...........as with all cruises, you can expect some down time so you should always bring along some good reading material. Since none of my fishing magazines made it in the mail before we left I chose a couple books for the trip. My choices were, PAPA, Hemingway in Key West, The Old Man and the Sea (a must for fishing cruises) and An Embarrassment of Mangoes, a book borrowed from some former cruisers, G & J Blackburn. I have just started the later and at the beginning of a chapter titled Blown away in the Bahamas there was the following quote, "It is unlucky to start a cruise on a Friday, the day Christ was crucified. In the 19th century the British navy tried to dispel this superstition. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, launched on a Friday, and finally sent to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again". I hope we have not jinxed this cruise leaving on a Friday, but wind and engine trouble on the first day which was a Friday is not a good start. There were a couple bright spots though. During the time we had engine trouble, we were parallelled by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, but were not stopped by them (seeing them is a little comforting). And, clearing customs was the easiest so far.
Almost Captain T Morgan
Saturday, May 2, 2009
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Hey - So glad you guys are doing a blog so we can vicariously follow along on your cruise - although, I am not certain I wish to relive the "engine dilemnas" - but hey it is raining in Missouri so Bimini and a good book sounds like paradise to me!!! Just go drink lots of rum and enjoy the sun and hopefully you will be up and running as I write.
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