Bengie the ship’s cat has made a small splash in the October issue of Cruising Helmsman with a short article published in the High Seas section of the yachting magazine.
Weather Guide
We often joke about her weather forecasting abilities and even put a bit of a wind guide together, showing her behaviour at different wind speeds and sea states. This did not get published for some reason. So here it is for a laugh.
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- 0 to 5 kn – Flat as a tack
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- 5-10 kn – Pretty cruisy
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- 10-15 kn – At the helm
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- 15-20 kn – Some swell, Time to go inside
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- 20-25 kn – Even more swell. Hide on their bed!
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- 25 + kn – Scared now!
The Article
And now for the article that did get published, click on the Ship’s Cat banner to read or download it, or go to our Published page – Practical Section!
Sv-Anui 
Nice article Chris, er, I mean Bengie. (Clever cat to write in the 1st person!)
Miaow😸
I think you should be up for some award as an author by now. Well done again Bengie and Chris
Hey, thanks Susie! That’a it for a while now…
Love it!
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Bengie is so cool, that was a great fun read for first thing in the morning. X
Ah good! You should check out the first article she wrote last year: https://svtakeiteasy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/cat-on-a-cat.pdf
Hurray for Bengie (and for you too, Chris). The photos and the article are adorable.
Thanks Mike… a bit of fun!
Congrats on the article. I’ll have to consider how we can include “cat behaviour” in the Navy weather forecasting schemes.
You could make it mandatory for each vessel to have a ship cat on board for specific localised forecasts!
This so great! Thanks for the link.
Thanks Robin😊
Wow. That’s impressive! By both of you. 😉
A bit of fun!