Publish Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010
This year’s holiday greeting comes to you via satellite phone from the
North Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between the Turks and Caicos Islands
and Puerto Rico. We will arrive in Puerto Rico late Christmas night,
so the satellite phone is our only option for sending you this
greeting. Due to the limited bandwidth, we must dispense with our
usual artistic flair: no photographs, and no singing video (which is
probably good news to everybody). What’s left is pure poetry! So get
yourself a mug of egg nog (perhaps with a bit of dark rum in it), and
hum the tune to yourself as you sing this year’s Three@Sea Holiday
Greeting:
The Twelve Days of Cruising
On the first day of cruising,
a pirate gave to me:
– A seagull in a palm tree.
. . .
On the twelfth day of cruising,
a pirate gave to me:
– Twelve waves a crashing,
– Eleven Luggers humming,
– Ten dolphins leaping,
– Nine waypoints calling,
– Eight coconuts milking,
– Seven crew out swimming,
– Six anchors weighing,
– Five golden Kaliks,
– Four hailing channels,
– Three puffer fish,
– Two turtle eggs,
– And a seagull in a palm tree!
We thoroughly enjoy all of your notes and comments, and we thank you
for joining us on our voyage. We wish you and yours a joyous, loving,
and thoughtful holiday season!
Liner Notes:
“Lugger” – The brand of our marine diesel engine, known as being tough
and dependable.
“Kalik” – The golden beer native to the Bahamas.
“waypoint” – A GPS coordinate marking a cruising destination
“hailing channel” – A channel on our marine VHF radio.
Merry Christmas!!! I hope you have a safe passage to Puerto Rico. I really appreciate the Location Change updates, its like following Santa Claus by GPS on Christmas Eve!!! I hope to talk with you when you get to Puerto Rico to find out where you will be staying while there. I was born at Roosevelt Roads Navy Base and was interested if you were going to be close to there.
Merry Christmas!!!!
Joey
Merry Christmas! Enjoy the Caribbean!
Happy Holidays to you all! We’re enjoying the virtual voyage!
Merry Christmas guys!
The around the world cruise sure has you in some pretty rough vacations spots, eh?
Glade you all have arrived safely. How did Piccadilly enjoy the trip?
Loved your poem. Scary thing for me is that I didn’t need to look anything up… even the Kalik. I guess I’m destined to be a boat person. Now go speak some spanish!