if you want to keep all your fingers, stay the hell out of my galley unless you're invited. i think you were too hard on weathers. yes. i do. yes sir. fucking bastard. what do you mean? why's it always happen at night? keep it coming. he must be two hundred pounds! bring him in close and try to hold him steady. got him! shit. that's chow. what?! what's happening?!! i'm sorry, skip. it's this damned book. lawford gave it to me. son-of-a-bitch. what's that? immortality. and being sixteen. what's that? i got a live one! i'll try and remember that. if i didn't know better i'd say the old man was acting almost halfway human. jesus. she's got guns. they want us to identify ourselves. they think we're carrying cuban refugees. skipper, they mean to board us. they say they are acting on the direct authority of fidel castro. you've got to be kidding!! he told them real sailors need only the stars.