OK my fellow sailors just done diddly bears-den then (left), and I'm sleeping on the Beneteau school yacht for the third and last time, my fourth night on a sailing yacht. The Beneteau is certainly spacious and roomy, much bigger than my little 24 foot Space Cruiser. I ran the engine on my yacht this morning like five minutes, just to keep the oil moving around. I'll need to get a lock also for the kayak. Avalon sure is nice.
The company on the boat was pretty nice today and we did a night sail which was a first for me. The skipper was a likeable fellow, a poofay I take it. A French American girl from southwestern France near Bilbao / Seattle, quite likeable. An English chap that spent two hours plotting the night sail on an old fashioned map with non electronic equipment. A Chinese father and son from Shanghai.
I once got a ferry (pronounced: chwan in Chinese) from Qingdao Shandong province China to Gunsan in South Korea and on to an American air force base there. That's a very large and roomy ferry. Plus a ferry to and from Tasmania, where you can drive your car on the ferry. I never used the ferry crossing to England but have travelled on the Chunnel from France to England, again driving on.
Key point: sailors will avoid looking at flashlights and torches, white lights, nearby them as it will take 10-20 minutes for their eyes to readjust to the darkness. They would prefer to use a red light in the dark for this reason, to avoid white lights. Or even a soft green light such as on the starboard side (which would be the port side in the Americas and Japan I'm told) or for navigational compasses held to the eye.
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