Please accept my apology if you have written to me or tried to phone in the past few days and I’ve not replied..
Heavy weather and problems … not unlike this painting which shows HM Sloop Racehorse returning from a voyage of discovery, out of contact and in difficulties.
“put preventer gammoning on bowsprit” her log book larconicly tells us.
See https://www.frickers.co.uk/art/marine-art/the-trafalgar-collection/hms-racehorse/ to discover more !
My computer has been repeatedly blocked so needed the attention of a medic, hospitalised with Teamclick of Redon.
Hopefully my ‘masts’ are now secure, I’m tweeking the ropes now.