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(SA) 80-07-12 (x) Lucky Break

High Adventure · July 12, 1980 · 29 min · 4,196 words

The transcript of “(SA) 80-07-12 (x) Lucky Break”, an episode of High Adventure first broadcast July 12, 1980. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). High Adventure plays High Adventure free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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adventure. Tonight's story by Ron Evans is entitled Lucky Break. Good things of life. A brown the beach.

Big sizzling steaks. And a good beer. A good feast. I sick old. Rich and cold. Down a line. Fill saddest I had. Lime lager. The colder the tastier. The better. Down a line. One feels satisfied.

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You'll like them. Elcano, ideal for smoking anywhere, anytime. Elcano. Not long after the war finished, I was a member of the five men crew on a small motor yacht. Her name was Sadie Goh, and was employed carrying small cargo from port to port in the Caribbean and the Central American coast. It was a lazy, easy going life. The pay was peanuts, and none of us,

not even the skipper Hugh MacKay took the job day seriously. We were more or less killing time until the world settled down from the chaos of the war. I suppose you could have called us 1946 style hippies.

Apart from the occasional seasonal hurricane, a very little happened to write home about. Until one day. We had put into a small port in one of the banana republics, and early in the morning offloaded thirty crates of machine spares.

We had to wait for clearance papers before leaving, but we were in no particular hurry to go. I was leaning over the rail just before midday, looking at the town. With me was Louis Benet, who looked after our twin diesel engines.

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