A SAILOR'S (B)LOG

Fellow crew ,
Now that we are back in calm waters I thought I'd
let you know that I had a great time on board. The worst moments turn out
to be the ones best remembered.
Had it not been for the Captain's misjugdement I am sure I would
have had a few broken bones today. Even though I was upset in the
beginning, in the end i was quite relieved at having rafted a class lower.
The first few minutes "on the water" were literarlly for most of us "in
the water".. Our most experienced boatsman was slightly....what i would
call..... totally confused...and so was our loudest sailor "check Vishal
check"....he won't admit it but he was as confused as our veteran.
When three of them went overboard...i dug my feet deeper in the raft.. So
deep that I couldnt fall over even if the raft capsized.
After the first major calamity...Vishal and Aarti were so shaken that they
were most happy to jump rite into the centre of the raft the moment we
experienced the slightiest turbulance....And when Captain decided that he
had to be one up over the rest and went overboard the second time..it
didn't frighten me at first cause it all seemed to be one thrilling game
...till he kept going and it seemed that he would chrash into the
rocks...saved by a kind indian soul he was once again back ...smiling
sheepishly and claiming that he didnt freak out...Vishal and Aarti were all
the more determined to stay in the boat and I guess i was the most ..
...The most memorable was Anadi's emotionally loaded lecture when Anubhav
went in for a dip....he just yelled ...as if we had all conspired to throw
him over ....anyway when he calmed down ..he spoke maybe the most
thought provoking words of the trip ...."Right now nothing is right
nothing is wrong....." The rest of our trip flew "rapidly"....pun not
intended :)...with me getting "totally wet like after 2 hours " ....and
vishal and anadi SHREiKing "r we there yet ? " every few minutes...
all in all I had a good time and hey Anadi the seat belts in no way meant
to reflect ur driving...u did a really good job.
Hope we all get to do it one more time...hopefully we'd remember the action
for forward and backward by then....


-Nicolle