Yachts can be the strangest of places particularly at night. As I lay in my bed last night I attempted with all my will power to stop myself listening to the creaks and groans of the moving yacht but eventually I gave up and had to respond to the incessant tap tap of another previously undiscovered piece of rope or noise that seemed to emanate from the mast!
It led me to think am I really suffering from the obsessive compulsive disorder that Roger claims I have? He is after all a doctor!
I'm a pretty methodical person and have over these last 7 weeks isolated the majority of the potential night time threats to a good sleep. The swinging boom moving repeatedly with the sway and motion of the waves and change of tide was easily solved with a simple rope preventer. However this has led to a false sense of success and not all creaks and rattles are as easily resolved.
So last night as the latest potential threat loomed over head a sense of despondency fell. Ok it wasn't raining tonight but a flimsy night dress doesn't offer much in the way of protection against the wind but who was there to see? No excuse there against getting up. The knock knock was still there. Could I sleep through it? No Way! I tell Roger I'm going to fix another rattle up on deck in the hope that should a monstrous wave or massive gust take me off the boat he may notice. Most unlikely! Any how I climb up and am unable to isolate the problem! Ok I resign myself to the thought of sleeping through it.
Back in bed tap tap tap. What is it this time? No chance of sleep! I look up to the hatch blind. Success! It's the culprit as it oscillates against the roof. I need not have risked life and limb to solve this one. Ah the prospect of sleep perfect sleep.
Wait a minute what's that noise! May be Roger's diagnosis is right? I just have to investigate.
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unless you are human resources manager for the boat,(which you probably are!) your title should be personal defence, rather than personnel defence. suggest Roger is right about the strenghth of his scrabble opponent. OCD is the compulsion to have everything just the same and in perfect order all the time - and it has to be in excess and give anxiety if things are not just so!. I don't think it is the cause of wanting to eliminate repetitive noises at night for the purpose of sleep. So you may have OCD, but eliminating noises is not the symptom to convince me. We want more evidence!! case not proven!! It is also almost impossible to prove on a boat like that that any sort of tidiness might be OCD: storing things in safe secure places (and therefore always the same places!)seems pretty essential to me. Knowing both of you, my (also medical) judgement says Roger has more OCD than Anne - perhaps Jon would like to comment?
ReplyDeletePS. suggest 3-5 degree anticlockwise tilt on camera - LOVELY PICTURES!!
ReplyDeletePPS Cindy is now telling me off for that "cheeky" comment. so i am in considreble trouble!!
ReplyDeletecan't spell considerable can I?
ReplyDeletenor strength idse!! looks like we'd all do badly in scrabble
ReplyDeletedamn you guys!! you're sleeping in a boat in paradise and i'm here still writing a presentation on the lateral medullary syndrome and hypoventilation.... Woo....Hooo!
ReplyDeleteWell I lost your blog link, now found and glad to still see you are having a fun if not slightly wet time. Looking forward to the next update, and Anne it sounds as if you should get that man of yours to stop learning how to do knots and concentrate on foredeck skill lol.
ReplyDeleteAll well in Perth, kids working hard, major issues with my work (hopefully sorted by end of the week).
Catch you soon,
Paul
Just to make you jealose we are all going up to Broome for a week in early July with a side trip to the drilling rig, should fun.
Just wanted to let you Anne, that I have read your blog and looked at all of your photos...absolutely fantastic! I must say that Southport Beach has changed a bit since I was last there!!!!!! (For the Aussies out there, Southport UK.!!)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, don't try anymore heroics with big ships, we'd love to see you back in one piece!
Take Care and enjoy!!!
Mandy x