<div><span style="font-size: 36pt; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">Irish Sailing - Let's Get Quizzical Week 6</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">Finish the nautical rhyme...</span></div>

A backing wind says storms are nigh

But a veering wind will clear the sky

A clearing wind, says birds can fly

And I’ll watch sails go flying by

And I’ll wave out and just say Hi

Ring around the moon

Sun will shine soon

You look like a goon

It must be June

Twill rain real soon

If clouds are gathering thick and fast, Keep sharp look out for sail and mast

But if they’re sitting nice and low, just sit back and get a glow

And if you feel like, have a blast

But if they slowly onward crawl, Shoot your lines, nets and trawl

But if they’re gathering light and slow, just sit back and watch them blow

Sound travelling far and wide

Just stay inside, your time, you bide

A music festival’s, by your side

A stormy day will betide

The weather forecaster has just lied

Mackerel sky, mackerel sky

Sit down, let time fly by

These rhymes are hard, they make me cry

All these fish, they look so sly

Not long wet, not long dry

The sharper the blast

The sooner its past

The further it’s cast

The higher the mast

We soon will go fast

Mares tails and mackrel scales

Make lofty ships, sail slow trails

Make lofty ships carry low sails

Wispy clouds and fishy bales

Horses and fish sales

When a halo rings the moon or sun

It’s time to go out and have some fun

Coffee time and morning bun

Rains approaching on the run

Time to turn, go on a run

North winds send hail, South winds bring rain

East winds bring sail, West winds we gain

North winds we bail, South winds keeps us sane

North winds we sail, South winds hoist main

East winds we bewail, West winds blow amain

When clouds appear like towers

The earth sends forth, it’s shoots of flowers

The earth is refreshed by frequent showers

The crowds appear and then they cower

The wind it turns and then it sours

Northeast is too cold, Southeast not too warm

Northeast is too bold, Southeast blows no harm

Northwest is on hold, Southwest is the norm

Northwest is too bold, Southwest blows no harm

Northeast won’t be told, Southeast has it’s form

When the glass falls low, Prepare for a blow

When it rises high, Let all your sails fly

When it goes high, Let your sails die

When the glass moves high, Let your sails dry

When it rises high, Be ready to fry

Rain before seven

It will help your bread leaven

You’ll be in heaven

Sleet by eleven

Shine before eleven

When the morn is dry, the rain is nigh

When the morn is wet, no rain you get

When the morn is warm, rain will be the norm

When the morn is wet, sleet you will get

When the morn is hot, rain will be a blot

Rain long foretold, long last

Weeks notice, means a blast

Hold tight to the mast

Short notice, soon will pass

Open well, the wine cask

When the rain before the wind

Make sure, a harbor find

Topsail sheets and halyards mind

Please ensure, your rubbish binned

Please ensure, a beach you find

Rainbow to windward, foul fall the day

Rainbow to leeward, gold blows away

Rainbow to leeward, sun comes to play

Rainbow to leeward, a waste of a day

Rainbow to leeward, rain runs away

When the wind before the rain

Let your topsails draw again

Trim the main and make your gain

Give in now and trim your mane

Nautical rhymes become your bane

Red Sky in Morning, Sailors Take Warning

Red Sky at Night, Werewolf’s delight

Red sky at Dawn, You’re going to need brawn

Red Sky at Night, Sailors Delight

Red Sky at Night, Sailors take Flight

When the wind is blowing in the North

Look at the sea and watch the froth

Keep ashore and hold your fort

Keep ashore and coffee froth

No fisherman should set forth

Irish Sailing - Let's Get Quizzical Week 6

Finish the nautical rhyme...

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Irish Sailing - Let's Get Quizzical Week 6 Finish the nautical rhyme...

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Irish Sailing - Let's Get Quizzical Week 6

Finish the nautical rhyme...