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Salary cheques? Now, that's an original concept. Beats passing the Skipper's cap around the deck gang and any stray passengers. Anyway, the standard of helmsmanship on the GDII is top class. Who else can write their autograph in the sea at 27 knots? After all, there is no point in having a steering engine if the CE doesn't want the lads in the wheelhouse to put it to good use. I did hear a rumour that the lower ranking members of the "black gang" had already started their "Let's welcome the New Year" pranks by substituting laundry powder for dishwashing machine powder in the Galley. The results will be similar to that occasion when the plasticos emptied bottles of Fairy Liquid in the fountain in Trafalgar Square at the Millenium celebrations.(Some of them may have been West Ham United supporters, I believe. They were heard singing "I'm forever blowing bubbles." Unless Bubbles was one of their contingent. Hehehe.)
Happy New Year to all hands.
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