{"id":3330,"date":"2018-01-10T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2018-01-10T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:53:03","slug":"poetry-in-motion-from-that-atlantic-swell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/poetry-in-motion-from-that-atlantic-swell\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Motion from that Atlantic Swell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"size-thumbnail\" style=\"width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Antigua-atlantic-portsmouth03-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Poetry in Motion from that Atlantic Swell\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The FCS crew on Challenger 2 are settling in on their voyage from Antigua to Portsmouth and here is the latest report, it includes a sea shanty and hopefully the first of many!<\/p>\n<h2>Time to Meet Mother<\/h2>\n<p>All is well on Challenger 2. Sailed by moonlight through the night, got drenched by squalls, dried out in the warm air.<br \/>\nEveryone settling into the routine of on-watch, sail, eat, sleep, repeat. We work together to get the job done, Every day two crew members leave their watch to act as the mother watch.<\/p>\n<p>It starts at 0600 and ends 2000. The crew on mother watch get to sleep through the night. Their job is to prepare, breakfast, lunch, dinner. Make sure the boat is cleaned below deck, food stores are all ok, bilges and tanks emptied and that everything below is shipshape.<\/p>\n<p>The watches start at 0700-1300, 1300-1900, 1900-2300, 2300-0300, 0300-0700. The days slip by. Not your normal nine to five.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now 1800hrs and we\u2019ve just logged 401 nautical miles and our position is N23\u201917.96 W61\u201931.46<\/p>\n<div class=\"size-thumbnail\" style=\"width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/day-4-return-positions.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s now 1800hrs and we\u2019ve just logged 401 nautical miles\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>All Hail the Pants of Power<\/h2>\n<p>Chris T was hauled up the mast today to retrieve a halyard that went astray. He donned the pants of power (the climbing harness used for man overboard drills).<\/p>\n<p>We got the halyard back, and Chris T was none the worse for it. Not many people can say they\u2019ve ventured up the mast in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Steve got his rod out today when the wind dropped and chucked his lure in the water. Nothing, not even a nibble. Ah well maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I leave you with a sea shanty:<\/p>\n<p>Muster a crew the skipper said,<br \/>\nWe\u2019re off to sail the seas,<br \/>\nTo a destination not yet known,<br \/>\nA coastline with palm trees.<\/p>\n<p>Requisition food and rum,<br \/>\nWe\u2019re out there for a while,<br \/>\nNo half measures on this ship,<br \/>\nWe\u2019re doing it in style.<\/p>\n<p>Hoist the main let\u2019s steer a course,<br \/>\nDown there, I have a notion,<br \/>\nOur bearings South till the butter melts,<br \/>\nTurn right and cross the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The sun the moon and all the stars,<br \/>\nThey\u2019re the captain\u2019s mate,<br \/>\nThey guide the way and plot the course,<br \/>\nBy them we navigate.<\/p>\n<p>All too soon it\u2019s land ahoy,<br \/>\nOur passage will be closing<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just the start it\u2019s not the end,<br \/>\nAdventures I\u2019m proposing.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<br \/>\nNeil, Skipper, Challenger 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The FCS crew on Challenger 2 are settling in on their voyage from Antigua to Portsmouth and here is the latest report, it includes a sea shanty and hopefully the first of many! Time to Meet Mother All is well on Challenger 2. Sailed by moonlight through the night, got drenched by squalls, dried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[350,114],"tags":[387,386,385],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-adventures","category-sailing-tales","tag-adventure","tag-mast-atlantic","tag-sea-shanty"],"views":2565,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}