Royal Artillery Insignia
The wall on which this was carved was entirely strafed with bullet holes. The royal Artillery was my father's regiment. I wondered as I stood there if he had also stood in the same place as a young gunner.
Saint Lucia - Sint Maarten - 23rd - 26th April 2015 SHAKEDOWN
Saint Lucia – Sint Maarten 23 rd – 26 th April 2015 3 days in St. Lucia and we worked very hard while there – the genoa halyard was very difficult to re-wind onto the drum, with all three of us putting our heads together, Adam and I dismantling the lower drum several times – all of us taking turns to read and attempt to understand why we kept getting it wrong. Now and again I think that I might be dyslexic, this was one of those times – no matter how many times we re-wound the furling line onto that drum it was backwards. Debra and I working on sewing the sun strip back on the genoa We got it on eventually, and furled and unfurled it while on our mooring and all seemed well – It wasn’t, it plagued us throughout the rest of the trip – we were constantly reefing and unreefing it – the unreefing was the problem and I broke another rule I usually adhere to – ‘if you have to use brute force to make something work, something’s obviously wrong an...
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Very powerful and moving photo and comment. Yes, if I were in your shoes it would sure make me think and wonder. Was he there because it was his duty, because he believed in the cause or was he there against his will? What was going through his mind as he lived the life of a gunner? What did his eyes see and his ears hear?
PS Moondancer is looking like the beauty I remember!