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  • The Catamaran
    • Cat's Meow exterior
    • Cat's Meow interior
    • Captains Don & LaVonne
    • The Staterooms
    • The Kitties
  • Trips
  • Photos 2019-2022
    • 2023 Junkanoo, Georgetown, Bahamas
    • Kitties Inky and Squinky
    • Touring PR 2 mo. before Covid-19 lockdown '20
    • PR Earthquake, Guanica, Guayanilla '19--'20
    • Culebra, PR 2019-2020
    • Swimming with dolphin in Georgetown, Bahamas '20
    • Junkanoo, Georgetown, 2019
    • Royal Bahamas Police Force Band 2019, Goergetown
    • SE Nova Scotia aboard "Plover" 2019
    • St John USVI Bamboula Dancers 2019
    • PR Bomba/Plena Festival dancing/drumming
  • Photos 2018-2017
    • Trent-Severn Waterway, Ontario, Canada 2017
    • Dominica 2017 PHOTOS >
      • Carnival in Roseau VIDEO
      • Indian River, Portsmouth VIDEO
      • Domino game, Portsmouth VIDEO
      • Carnival in Portsmouth VIDEO
      • "Jing Ping" Dominican music VIDEO
      • Ancient buttress root tree on Syndicate Trail VIDEO
    • Guadeloupe 2017 PHOTOS >
      • Guadeloupe music, Mouvman Kiltirel Akiyo VIDEO
    • Antigua, St John, Culebra PHOTOS >
      • Steel Drum music, Antigua VIDEOS
      • Snorkeling with turtle, St John & Culebra VIDEOS
      • Culebra & Culebrita Underwater PHOTOS
      • Coral underwater "Garden", Culebrita VIDEO
      • Snorkeling with a school of blue fish VIDEO
      • Small fish in current under coral, Culebrita VIDEO
    • Puerto Rico before Hurricane Maria 2017 PHOTOS >
      • Dancers on the Guancha, Ponce VIDEO
      • Singers at farmer's market, Ponce VIDEO
      • "TunTun Sound" Band on the Guancha, Ponce VIDEO
    • Playful dolphins while sailing VIDEO
  • Photos 2016-2011
    • 2016 Photos >
      • Halifax, Nova Scotia to Bras d'Or Lakes 2016
      • Lunenburg to Shelburne aboard "Silmaril" 2015
      • Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland to Ramea 2016
      • Grey River, Newfoundland to Rencontre West 2016
      • McCallum, Newfoundland
      • Gaultois and Piccaire, Newfoundland
      • Hermitage, Harbour Breton, Balden's Cove, Grand Falls, Newfoundland
      • Grand Bank and Fortune, Newfoundland
      • Miquelon and St. Pierre, France
    • 2015 Photos >
      • Sailing through squalls on way to Dominican Republic, Ocean World, Cabarete, Luperon, La Isabela, Country Day Tour
      • Touring Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic 2015
      • Old San Juan, Guavate, & Fajardo, Puerto Rico 2015
      • Vieques and Culebra 2015
      • Ponce, Puerto Rico 2015
      • El Yunque National Rain Forest, Puerto Rico 2015
      • Sailing back to Georgetown 2014-2015
    • 2014 Photos >
      • St John's, Cape Fear, Bell Island, Ferryland, NL 2014
      • St. Pierre & Miquelon, NL 2014
      • Southeastern Newfoundland 2014
      • Georgetown to Nassau - Family Vacation Photos 2014
      • Norman's Cay 2014
      • Rocket & Orbit in the Bahamas 2014
      • Georgetown, Exuma 2014
      • Georgetown Underwater 2014
      • Rum Cay 2014
      • Family Island Regatta, Georgetown 2014
      • Royal Bahamian Police Band @ Fam. Is. Reg. 2014
      • Exuma Community Youth Marching Band & Majorettes @ Regatta 2014
    • 2013 Photos >
      • Ocean Marine Haul-out, Portsmouth, VA 2013
      • Florida & Nassau
      • Bohicket Creek, Wadmalaw Island, SC 2013
      • St Augustine, FL 2013/2014
      • Georgetown, Exumas 2013
      • Long Island, Bahamas 2013
      • Rum Cay 2013
      • Lee Stocking Island & Elizabeth Island 2013
      • Staniel Cay, Big Major's, Rocky Dundas 2013
      • Black Point Settlement 2013
      • Little Farmers Cay 2013
      • Bimini, Bahamas 2013
    • 2012 Photos >
      • Bohicket Creek, SC
      • Hurricane Sandy, Yacht Haven, Glou. Pt, VA
      • Memories of HMS Bounty, Lunenburg
      • LaHave, Nova Scotia
      • Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
      • Shelburne, Nova Scotia
      • Around Nova Scotia
      • Oyster Bay, NY to Gloucester, MA 2012
      • New York City 2012
      • Yorktown to New York
      • Yorktown, VA & Nag's Head, NC 2012
      • Beaufort, NC Winter
      • Sunsets/Sunrises
      • "ORBIT"
      • "ROCKET"
      • Cool birds & animals
    • 2011 Photos >
      • New York City 2011
      • Maine 2011
      • Bahamas 2011
      • Family Island Regatta, Georgetown, Exumas
      • Beaufort, NC 2011
      • Florida-Georgia-South Carolina 2011
      • 2019 Junkanoo, Georgetown, Police Band
  • Trip Schedules through 2023
  • Contact Us
"WE'LL RANT AND WE'LL ROAR"

My name it is Robert, they call me Bob Pittman;
I sail in the Ino with Skipper Tim Brown.
l'm bound to have Dolly or Biddy or Molly
As soon as l'm able to plank the cash down.

chorus:
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders,
We'Il rant and we'll roar on deck and below
Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers,
When straight through the Channel to Toslow we'll go.


l'm a son of a sea-cook, and a cook in a trader;
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main-boom;
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a big figure
Whenever I gets in a boat's standing room.

chorus:
If the voyage is good, then this fall I will do it;
I wants two pound ten for a ring and the priest,
A couple o' dollars for clean shirt and collars,
And a handful o' coppers to make up a feast.

chorus:

There's plump little Polly, her name is Goldsworthy,
There's John Coady's Kitty, and Mary Tibbo;
There's Clara from Bruley, and young Martha Foley,
But the nicest of all is my girl in Toslow.

chorus:

Farewell and adieu to ye fair ones of VaIen,
Farewell and adieu to ye girls in the Cove;
I'm bound to the westward, to the wall with the hole in,
I'II take her from Toslow the wild world to rove.

chorus:
Farewell and adieu to ye girls of St. Kyran's,
Of Paradise and Presque, Big and Little Bona,
l'm bound unto Toslow to marry sweet Biddy,
And if I don't do so, I'm afraid of her da.

chorus:

I've bought me a house from Katherine Davis,
A twenty-pound bed from Jimmy MeGrath;
I'll get me a settle, a pot and a kettle;
Then I'll be ready for Biddy - hurrah!

chorus:

O, I brought in the Ino this spring from the city,
Some rings and gold brooches for the girls in the Bay;
I bought me a case-pipe - they call it a meerschaum -
It melted like butter upon a hot day.

chorus:
I went to a dance one night at Fox Harbour,
There were plenty of girls, so nice as you'd wish;
There was one pretty maiden a-chawin' of frankgum
Just like a young kitten a-gnawing fresh fish.

chorus:

Then here is a heaIth to the girls of Fox Harbour,
Of Oderin and Presque, Crabbes Hole and Bruley.
Now let ye be jolly, don't be melancholy,
I can't marry all, or in chokey I'd be.