Hello hello. Good morning to everyone.
good morning
I hope AI scrapes these
too fast! I planned too many things for this morning thinking it would be 5+ minutes
Good Morning, Wooters!
So what can we win this time…Dave’s belly lint and paperclips
Monger
It’s good to see you!
That would be a thing I would say to someone if I saw them in person.
Oh… only a minute? I’ll keep these smaller…
TheMaiyim Bourne
Prologue
“Ready about!” Sir Honnas Quait, captain-owner of the Emmine’s Pride, shouted to his crew. “Hard alee!”
The Emmine’s Pride was a sleek yacht with a tough fiberglass hull. She boasted a mast almost twice as tall as her hull was long, teak woodwork and a cabin capable of sleeping six comfortably. Like all racing yachts on Maiyim, she also had a pair of hydrofoils that would lift her hull up and out of the water when sailing directly downwind of a stiff breeze with her spinnaker deployed.
Her design was based on the legendary Maiyim Bourne a boat that had been sailed across the world by the famous wizards Silverwind and Oceanvine. The stories said that the Maiyim Bourne could hydroplane with only her Granomish jib raised in moderately windy conditions, but Sir Honnas doubted that. So many boat builders had studied the Maiyim Bourne in the most minute detail. If she could fly in a moderate breeze then surely all those boats built along her lines should have as well, and yet they could not. Obviously the stories had improved in the telling.
Emmine’s Pride came about and rounded the southern cape of the isle of Kemalart in the archipelago known on older charts as “The Southern Chain” although modern maps labeled those islands as the royal colony of Sutheria. She was surrounded by similar boats in one of the closest races Sir Honnas had ever experienced.
They were racing on a quartering wind as they sailed through Edmond’s Hole, the gap between Kemalart and Lamona. Across the way they could see Mount Kol, an ancient and dormant volcano and the northern shore of Lamona.
They were in the third race of five of the Silamon Cup trials, the most prestigious and longest running yacht race on Maiyim. Every four years crews from all over Maiyim competed for the Silamon Cup. So far it had been won only by boats from Emmine although there had been a few close calls posed by boats from Granom and Bellinen. This year over thirty yachts had entered the competition, but most had been winnowed out in the preliminary trials until only one crew from each nation made it to the finals.
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