BS: schooner mudcat

Subject: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 03:57 PM

I came on deck at 8 bells in the morning watch, and, I noticed there was no one at the helm. She was close hauled on the starboard tack headed straight for Sable Island! What the hell happened to the crew? You scurvey dogs went over the side in the night.. I didnt hear the long boat being lowered, dont hear too good when I sleep with Jack Daniels..whats that I hear in the fog? .."She would neither wear nor steer nor stay..leave her Johnnie leave her..she shipped that green both night and day, its time for us to leave her.. Whats the matter Mr. Friar? afraid of a little weather?...Come back you mutinous scum!! I'll have your guts for a necktie!!

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 04:29 PM

Don't worry Kendall, I had the CoastGuard Cutter Clarks Harbour shadowing you in the fog just in case. Now she will haul off and head in, since we have a good man on deck taking care of business. Yours, Aye. Dave ( on watch at RCC )

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: DonMeixner
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 06:26 PM

Sorry Kendall , but I just build them boats. I know one end id pointy and the other is kinda flattish and middle holds out the water. Other than that, I can't only splice main braces and batten down stuff, like lubber stays mizen posts and the like. Sorta.

Ship ahoy.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Willie-O
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:41 PM

Eh....whuzzzzat?

Sorry Cap'n, it wuz all that celebratin...I skipped off to shore for an evenin and I don't know what they slipped inta the eggnog but next thing I knew I was in southern Vermont kinda far from the old boat...and I'm still there. Thanks fer the tongue-lashin, I'll catch up with ya a stop or two down the coast...

by the by I wouldn't suggest gettin out of sight of land tonight...

Willie-O Well Fed in Brattleboro...

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Dec 99 - 07:53 PM

I a'feared I'm a landlubber from the High Plains, where we've got a sea of grass, so I don't know how I'd feel about having nothing solid under m'feet, but I did get ole Zeb his Sunday shoes and walkin' cane, just in case he might get a chance to see old Alice sail again. I think I just meet you during shore leave, okay?

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 12:52 AM

so..you'd rather play the piano than march up and down the square eh? well.. off you go..

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Susan A-R
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 10:10 AM

RATS! I suppose this doesn't bode well for the REAL schooner Mudcat, if all of us rush off to the tavern in the middle of a foggy night. But you know where our priorities are Kendall. Now what's that song about the crew setting some sort of record because they were all drinking rum and played the wind for all she was worth?

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 10:35 AM

The Mary L> McKay Schooner Fare recorded that

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: InOBU
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 10:46 AM

Like ol Ned, abandoning the Levitt to the embrace of the sea, looks like a small failure of forsight, not shipwright, when we call the coast guard to pluck us up on New Years Eve!
JIBE HER BOYS, SHE HAINT DONE FER YIT!
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 12:21 PM

do you know Ned? he's an ok guy, just a victim of bad timing

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: InOBU
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 02:57 PM

Hey Kendall, My wife went to a school he taught at, Marymac, as in Mary Macks mother wants Mary Mack to Mary me, my mother wants me to marry Mary Mack, Im going to Marry Mary for my Mary to take care of me, etc...
Well... I apreciate what Ned Ackerman was trying to do, but he was also a victem of his inability to take advise from many, such as dont step a top mast for a winter run, and not the least of which was not to aboandon the Levett, as advised by the Coastie who, with tears in his eyes said he did not believe the Levitt to be sinking, and reminded the press, after Ned said, at least I brought my crew home, no, the USCG brought his crew home. Well, no use crying over spilled timber. I like to think of the Levitt, sailing about like the Mary Celest, to be found off Pitcarrin some day by someone with the experience to use her right (rather than the relity of what might have been - her blackened upturned hull - rolling in the troths - waiting to destroy some unwarry small ship)
But hey, it was Neds dream and fair play to him, it was his money and roll of the dice.
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 06:18 PM

I've often wished I'd been there. In the first place, she wouldn't have been down by the head when she sailed, and, she wouldn't have been overloaded either.

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: DonMeixner
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 06:38 PM

Kendall,

When I watched "Coaster" I was amazed that so pretty a ship could be so ill served. It looked to me like she sailed too late in the year, too much cargo to far farward. The crew seemed a little green for that kind of work. And Ned Akerman appeared to be too much visionary and not enough foresight for the vision he carried.

Also, is my memory correct in that boat was a Pete Culler design and if she was did it come out of Culler's yard. And if so did Pete live to see it sink?

Don

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: paddymac
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 06:43 PM

Aye Lads & Lasses, the beauty of a fine craft is in the innumerable nooks and crannies in which to stash necessary supplies. Any seasoned mariner would know that a vessel well stocked with kegs of Guiness is never in any real danger, for you can alwys drink the black stuff, thereby converting them kegs into magnificent flotation devices.

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: JenEllen
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 09:24 PM

I'll drum, but I'm NOT rowing. Sing ya a song maybe? "If I had a wife, the peg o'me life, I tell you what I'd doooooo. Build her a boat, and set her afloat, and paddle me own canoe-oooooo"

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 09:31 PM

Anyone going to Mingalay?

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 10:10 PM

or Old Maui?

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: JenEllen
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 02:23 AM

The Owl and the Pussycat are going to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat, any one with honey or money can apply for crew positions. Elle

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 08:41 AM

I cant resist telling you this story..(true) a friend of mine who was single at the time, put a personal ad in a local paper. It read. WANTED: A YOUNG WOMAN TO ASSUME MISSIONARY POSITION IN ST. GEORGE MAINE !! He said he was flooded with resposes.

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Susan A-R
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 11:27 PM

KENDALL!!!! I'm just amazed that they printed it. Tbat's kinda like coming across in a canoe. Thanks for the name of the song. I believe I have it on a tape somewhere, but my collection is haphazard at best. Safe Journey to you. I'm not likely to get back on here before Tuesday (You aren't zig zagging through VT on your way south are you??) Susan A-R

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 06:45 AM

Susan, I'm afraid VT. is a bit out of the way on this trip.. My schedule says, Folk Legacy on tuesday, Philly on Wednesday, and a log beat to windward starting on thursday

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Susan A-R
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 09:41 PM

I know, I know, I was just checking. Have fun where it is WARM and there is lots of MUSIC.

Susan (turning green)

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 09:53 PM

so, dump your hubby and come along with me.. or am I too old to be a whistling gypsie?

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 12:54 AM

Ah, C'mon Suze, you can't pass up an offer like that!!

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Susan A-R
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:45 PM

Dammit! You've already LEFT. If it continues to rain up here, I'd even leave my blue eyed baby for the sunny south and music making.

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:37 PM

Is there anyone aboard who wants to sing "Quare Bungle Rye" with me? We could follow it up with "The Seven Seas of Rhye"!:{>

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:38 PM

Is there anyone aboard who wants to sing "Quare Bungle Rye" with me? We could follow it up with "The Seven Seas of Rhye"!:{>

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:40 PM

I'll 'ave a go at Quare bungle Rye! but "seven seas" is a new one on me...gotta crib sheet?

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Willie-O
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 09:38 PM

Ok mates, I'm back in me own berth...thank god or somebody that I have one to be back in...Susan we had lasagna as soon as we got home, but it wasn't as good as yours...getting the habit more and more. Don't run off with Kendall, more hungry travellers will pass through Montpelier as word gets out...and then where would they be?

Willie-O

Subject: RE: BS: schooner mudcat
From: Susan A-R
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:11 PM

Glad you are back safely Willie-O. Not to worry. I wouldn't run off for good, just for those nasty February-ish bits. Now that it has stoped raining (and frozen into a solid sheet of ice, I might add) I am settling into the business of providing good hearty and interesting food for other sun-deprived folk who have NOT run off to the south. (It is tempting)

I'll have a go at Quare Bulgle Rye.

Susan A-R