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One evening my Mother was on the rig (when was she not??!!) when suddenly she heard "Blue Dragon, is that you?" "Yes, who's that?" The breaker gave his name and was someone we knew then said, "Just do me a favour and count to twenty and back will you?" Mother thought it a bit strange, but did as she was asked. When it was over, the breaker called back and said, "thankyou, you have just helped us tremendously" It turned out that he was on a fishing vessel which had taken a freak wave which had knocked out a lot of the electrics in the wheelhouse. The Skipper knew this bloke had his rig aboard and asked him if he would connect it up and try to get some sort of bearing as to where they were etc. Turns out that he connected up and the first thing he heard was the Dragon and using a directional ariel, he was able to work out which way they were facing. They were off the coast of Iceland. None of us believed it untill a few days later a postcard from Reykyavik arrived with a big thankyou from all aboard!
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