Last Day Racing , Murder Game and outline of the next days ahead

Last night when the race results came in the Captain told us that we are still first in our class which is good to hear, we celebrated with applause and then went onto our night watches. News also followed that due to the winds and the fact that many of the ships had not yet passed GOTLAND the race would finish early so that we could grantee all of the ships were able to be in port for the events in Klaipeda

 

Sailing during the night was good and we had easy watches, allowing for fun and games. One game that was played was the bear game. In this game to people pretend to be PARENTS and give birth to a baby bear. However the parents have to try and stop the baby from being born, whilst the baby has to try to be born. In reality a person has to push through two people who are lying on top of each other and trying to stop the person pushing through the two of them.

 

Another game which started yesterday is the murder game: here below are the rules:

 

A GAME OF MURDER

IS ANNOUNCED

·        Everyone aboard is invited to play

·        The idea of the game is that each person playing will receive a victim (someone else playing the game), a location and weapon which they must use to “kill” their victim.

·        Once you have killed someone you then have the task of killing the person they should have “killed”.

·        The winner is the person who survives by “killing” everyone else !

 

Some rules

 

1. You can not kill anyone whilst they are on watch, or doing a job / task for the ship.
   
   
2. A murder shouldn’t disturb people sleeping in the accommodation.
   
   
3. You can enlist the people who have died to help you kill someone.
   
   
4. If you kill someone and their victim was supposed to be you, you must come and see Chris, Carl or Sophie who will assign you a new victim.
   
   
5. You must get permission to use a murder tool if the item belongs to anyone aboard the ship and from one of the ships crew if it is a piece of the ships equipment.
   
   
6. If there is a disagreement over a murder this will be settled by the mentors
   
   
7. Sadly, once the game has started it is not practical for new people to join.

 

With over half of the crew playing “murders” have been happening all over the ship, and as the death toll rises there have been more and more accomplices involved in killing people !

 

Finally after days of racing at 16:00 today we finished our race at sea – as with many of the vessels in this years race the winds made it impossible for us to reach the finish line in the required time. Having celebrated as a crew (there is a good chance we may have won some prizes) we started to take sails down and prepare the ship for port.

 

Tomorrow (Friday 31^st) a pilot will join the ship at 0800 and guide us into port. Whilst the racing is over we still have several days of fun planned. Most of Friday will be spent cleaning the ship and making it “ship shape and Bristol fashion” ready for when the ship is open to the public. Saturday will be a busy day, as a reward for a hard work racing we plan a late breakfast, after which we will have the Second ever Egg Drop Competition aboard Christian Radich. Following the egg drop (see next blog post for the egg drop rules) we will have lunch and then prepare for the Crew Parade through the centre of town which will finish at the prize giving ceremony (perhaps Radich will have a few trophies to take home… who knows!).  Once back to the ship there will be chance to shower change and then the whole crew can enjoy a party organised for the crews of all the competing vessels.

 

Sunday morning the whole crew will be up early (perhaps some will not have even been to bed!). Wake up will be 0700 and by 0745 all bags must be packed and on deck. Once the accommodation is clear of bags and personal items, breakfast will be served for everyone and then the big ship clear up will begin. Then by 0930 the voyage will be over, and after what are sure to be many goodbyes and possible tears the crew of Radich will head home to the lives they had before the voyage!

 

Chris – Mentor aboard Radich, Baltic TSR ’09 Race 2