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[hansp77]

Originally Posted by jack frost

I know its 'writers license' to -- what shall we say--embelish. But I have to admitt to having a bit of trouble with the quotation that I have added above.

So the dolphins told him he was of course,-- Ok Ok they cant talk so they what? sqeeked-- grunted at him and did what? and how did he interpret this as Oh I am of course.

Oh the same as skippy??? ( Ausies only)

I just cant read books --Im sorry. Fantastic pics though Hansp

Ok this is from memory,
maybe Figgy could quote the actual book,

but,
he had his boat sailing on some sort of windvane auto-helm. He went down into the cabin for a while and did not notice that the wind had changed.
He came back up and kept on sailing thinking he was on course to sail south past a big treacherous reef off the south of NZ.

So up comes a big pod of dolphins,
they came up right next to his boat and were all agitated and nervous. They would come up in front of him or beside him and all in formation turn right at the same time. Then they would do it again. This happened for a couple of hours I think (not sure).
Finannly he checked his direction and realised that he was heading straight into the reef. When he adjusted course and turned right away from the reef all the dolphins were imeadiatly happy and playfull, doing flips out the water and stuff. They followed him for a little while like this and then left.

Hardly doing justice to the story.
In the book this was second hand telling also,
He probably told it better or more acurately in his own book.

[hansp77]

Originally Posted by Guillermo

He got instant fame, anyhow, by doing that....

From what I could tell in the book (A Voyage For Madmen), the fame he got in his own country was not the good sort
though fame nonetheless.

[Figgy]

Now I have to find it, hold on...

[Figgy]

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols, pg. 198

A tight line of twenty-five porpoises swam abrest off his starboard side, rushing from stern to bow, and then veering off sharply, always to the right. Again and again and again, more than ten times, they regrouped and made this same maneuver, while the rest of the school behaved in a manner Moitessier construed as nervous: they moved erratically, they beat theirtails on the surface, they created pandemonium around the fast-sailing Joshua. All the while, a single platoon continued its streaking, abrupt right-hand maneuver. To the right. To the right. Moitessier watched astounded.
Finally, instinctively, he looked at the compass, something he had not done n a while with the wind vane doing the steering. The west wind had shifted into the south without his noticing it, and Joshua was racing north, not east, twords the reefs of South Trap. Normally a shift in wind will alter the wave patterns of the surface, and very soon have them running at an angle to the older swell, a visible alteration of the sea state, and immediatly felt by a sailor abord a boat. But that afternoon there was, unusually, little or no swell, and Moitessier, not for the first time in wreck-strewn life, had been fooled. He altered course to the direction of the porpises abrupt turn.
Their behavior changed immediately. Thier nervousness, their disruption of the sea surface, disappeared. Now they swam in their usual playful way. And as Moitessier watched them, wondering but not wondering at all about what had happened, one large black-and-white porpoise lept clear of the water and somersaulted twice before flopping back onto the surface.

There it is! Sorry it took awhile to type, I hope no one found this and posted it before me!!

[hansp77]

Originally Posted by Figgy

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols, pg. 198



There it is! Sorry it took awhile to type, I hope no one found this and posted it before me!!

Thanks Figgy!
I hope you can touch type cause that would've taken a while

[Figgy]

I looked up and saw I burned almost an hour! I peck at the keys, and I found the page soon after I said I'll look for it. I REALLY need to take a typing class..lol

[hansp77]

I downloaded a game called
typing tutor pro 2
or something like that.
I am on a mac, but there would be heaps more games for a PC if that is what you are on.

You just learn the letters one at a time, never looking at the keyboard.
Half an hour every day and you will be there in less than a month.

I didn't learn numbers, but type over 40 wpm now. And I don't learn these things too easy.

EDIT- http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm
(lots more out there)

[Frosty]

Wow figgy did you type all that out for me--- Cheers. Still dont believe it.

[hansp77]

Time for a picture.

From somewhere in croatia
www.harrispenny.com/ croatia-prop/lapad.htm





don't fall in


Dust Storm over the Southern Red Sea

[Guillermo]

More funnies from www.Worth1000.com: "Toastguard" and "Ironship"

[westlawn5554X]

Yess, it is called the flaming Flamingo drink... It is a martini glass with toe chopstick with a large scot bottle. The flame drink is poured with a guy using a straw trying to suck up everthing, 2 drink will knock you out. Becareful!!!

Dont worry, I am buying the drink for everyone I bring along

[safewalrus]

Guillermo, there great, accommodation looks a little small especially on the 'toastguard' but your breakfast would always be hot!

Mike

[kach22i]

Handsome dude, popular with the ladies.

http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=mg050309pt


Yea baby, I've got a boat.

[safewalrus]

Why do the girlies in your crew look so cheesed off? must be the lack of moisturiser cream!

[Guillermo]

This is the most unbelivable video I've seen lately. Three boys stole the Spanish Prime Minister seat at the Congress and even filmed the thing. Wow!
http://levantatezp.blogspot.com/