a tradition on tall ships when two or more come into the same anchorage - raiding parties!!! must be a throwback of the days when this kind of ship was used by pirates!
soren larsen spent their last day in port vila yesterday and as a consequence it was our last chance to raid them! but before we could they tried to get us first at 10:30pm... good thing we were watching for them because we caught them before they got even close, hid below the bulwarks where they could not see us and douched them with water when they tied on. they came with the intent of toilet papering our rigging, they didn't get a single square out! we managed to toss a couple of them back into the water, set their dingy afloat and made them swim after it... nice thing was they did bring us a bottle of wine with the words "from Nick and Dan with Love" written on it. still, their raid was a total and utter failure!
then came our turn, at 2:30am. we rowed straight onto their bow, fully expecting to get caught... we figured they would be keeping as vigilant a watch as we were but they had no idea we were there! so with our 3 live chickens in hand and a note saying "Alvei Chicks Rule!" I climbed up the bow, and tossed the chickens on deck! success!
then the boys showed up again immediately afterwards, they had been drinking on deck and noticed the chickens right away... this was the only error in our plan, we had hoped that nobody would notice the chickens until they were setting sail. so the guys showed up at the alvei and tried to raid us again! Still no success! Ha ha ha! we fended them off without difficulty. they were all smashed by now
ALVEI CHICKS RULE!
