The Ensign
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What Flag ?
Participants in this thread must be constantly looking for information on the NAXOF and be vigilant when it is found. Often the information is more valuable just through knowing. When you can make reasonable deductions about events apply them. SI is a new forum of public opinion for many ideas relating to investments. Continued pressure on the financial switch has made it one of the most valuable resources we have.
The small topsail was taut in the wind when the breeze picked up, the ship heeled as all the sails suddenly snapped taut. Her black hull rolled and showed the darker encrusted layers below, evidencing her lack of care.
A ship of the line would have a distinctly better chance of running her with NAXOF's loss in speed. Her bellying revealed other areas where the lack of care could prove dangerous, several poorly pitched areas indicated recent scarring that should have been fully repaired but was not. The prelude to her arrival here in the fog bank had been truly heroic. Oft repeated lines were bandied back and forth among the crew, any wild idea was spoken or hailed in a sense of diminishing unease. One of the main reasons for treating the ship so shabbily was the conviction of the crew that the new patented "ironcladding process" would be so effective at repulsing shot that she would have nothing to worry about. Why pay any attention to an old wooden hull, soon to be replaced with something much better. This care and inattention could prove harmful if the NAXOF was to enter an engagement now.
The dangers inherent in sailing a ship like the NAXOF are numerous and you must be careful, the law you must learn is the code of the sea. No tar worthy of the name existed who had not learned it. The time of greatest danger is at the beginning of an engagement, before the greatest dangers can be ascertained, many a battle is lost or won in the opening. Another time of great danger is upon entering new waters. For smaller ships the thing to note is the new and dangerous weaponry adapted to use at sea. Long familiar to those who fight on land the weaponry is sometimes used with great effect, shipboard.
The wind began to pick up and the smallest sail suffered in the gusting wind. The constant canvas stitching and care needed to keep a critical sail in top shape which had been neglected took it's toll in a hurry. A side effect of the increasing wind was returning visibility. Slowly features heretofore hidden began to emerge.
Mad Jimmy John, the captain, bellered his tars up the ropes and spars as he took advantage of the clearing winds to push ahead of the weather which he knew was following up, the thick fog banks could be seen breaking up slowly but no one knew when it would ever actually clear, her added sail unfurled slowly. The helmsman blindly turned and pointed out a direction through as required, the lookout yelled "All Clear".
It does not take a radical departure to follow what a poster who was long on NAXOF called the Yellow Brick Road. I believe it requires a certain starting place (Planet 9) but once there it is easy to get any place you wish to be, (I believe you click your slippers together). You may continue to assert your belief that everything is fine, I do not have to believe this. NAXOF is not going to $1000.00 share, a belief of mine that you may not share, you will be asked to believe in and rely on the Johnson-Lett process, a belief of mine that you may not share, you will be asked for more time, lots of it, a belief of mine that you may not share. My dislike of this company should not be construed as an attack on your like of this company. This is a public forum. |
