Quotable Quote
One day [Garry Moore] invited me for a cruise on his swell, old eighty-foot schooner, Redwing. Just one highlight: It tells a lot.
On the second night Garry piloted his sturdy band of Lascars up a narrow Connecticut river and, with a lot of "Danforth" and "heaving the lead" and "make fast" and other hake-and-flounder talk, we stopped. The noble corsair put out an anchor fore and one aft because of the current, or the wind, or the cow in the field about forty feet away.
At three in the morning (six bells, Connecticut ocean time), I tried to turn over in my little bag but couldn't do it and the effort woke me. It seems (don't you just love "it seems"?) that the river only existed at high tide and our gallant ship was lying at a forty-five degree angle in the mud.
By five A.M. we had the vessel roped to some trees so that it stopped listing. Hours later the tide changed its mind and we were able to horse the damn thing out of the mud and up on its feet, like. All-in-all it was an experience I wouldn't have missed for forty, forty-five cents.
-Henry Morgan
On the second night Garry piloted his sturdy band of Lascars up a narrow Connecticut river and, with a lot of "Danforth" and "heaving the lead" and "make fast" and other hake-and-flounder talk, we stopped. The noble corsair put out an anchor fore and one aft because of the current, or the wind, or the cow in the field about forty feet away.
At three in the morning (six bells, Connecticut ocean time), I tried to turn over in my little bag but couldn't do it and the effort woke me. It seems (don't you just love "it seems"?) that the river only existed at high tide and our gallant ship was lying at a forty-five degree angle in the mud.
By five A.M. we had the vessel roped to some trees so that it stopped listing. Hours later the tide changed its mind and we were able to horse the damn thing out of the mud and up on its feet, like. All-in-all it was an experience I wouldn't have missed for forty, forty-five cents.
-Henry Morgan
