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The Adventures of Captain Wrongel
- It is well-known that in our world
amazing things can happen!
The seas are full beyond all count
of sights deserving wonder!
You'll see an iron crowbar float
and a fish drown in water.
It's sometimes hard to believe, friends,
but it is true, regardless!
It's sometimes hard to believe, friends,
but it is true, regardless!
One must be steadfast in the sea
and endlessly resourceful.
And I could personally serve
as a living example!
What I've experienced in my life
is, of course, quite surprising!
It's sometimes hard to believe, friends,
but it is true, regardless!
It's sometimes hard to believe, friends,
but it is true, regardless!
There are many states in this world
where I have dropped an anchor.
My friends, I am captain Wrongel.
And that's all there is to say!
My truthfulness can't be denied
and everybody knows it.
It's sometimes hard to believe, friends
but it is true, regardless!
It's sometimes hard to believe, friends,
but it is true, regardless, but it is true, regardless...
But it is true, regardless!
Well, I guess I'll
tell you about the round-the-world sailing regatta that I happened to participate in.
Somewhere abroad...
This story began in a faraway, foreign city.
"Yacht Club"
- Dear gentlemen,
I'm honored to inform you that our club, for the first time in the sport of sailing's history,
has decided to host an international sailing regatta for single-masted yachts that will circumnavigate the globe.
The most famous captains were sent an invitation to participate in this event.
- Yeah, this is how it all started.
In those days, it had been long since I'd dreamt of any adventures,
and I was instead teaching navigation in a nautical school.
So, under all these circumstances, you need to find out the ship's coordinates.
Lom!
What happened? Where are you?
- I lost my pen, Christopher Bonifatyevich.
- To the blackboard, please.
And don't forget about your reexamination.
- Christopher Bonifatyevich, there's an international telegram for you!
- "To the famous Captain Wrongel"...
"The Enlandian club invites you to participate in a round-the world sailing regatta".
Lom, do you want to get straight A's in your navigation studies?
- I do!
- Then you'll go with me on a circumnavigation aboard a sailing yacht.
I'll sign you on as my shipmate.
Send a telegram:
"Captain Wrongel accepts!"
Lom,
start building a yacht this very day.
- Yes, sir! I must start building a yacht.
"Success"
- Dear friends, a long circumnavigation awaits our yacht.
We'll do all we can to have the main prize of the regatta
standing in our nautical museum.
Raise the sails!
Give up the bow cable!
Reel back the stern ropes!
Full speed ahead!
What's up? Why aren't we moving?
Hey, you on the tugboat!
Take the rope, goddamnit!
"Success"
"Loss"
Alright, let's try once more!
First mate Lom, what sort of wood did you place aboard?
- The very best, only just cut down!
- Ah, so that's why the yacht put down roots.
First mate Lom, clear the portside from green plantings.
It's a bit awkward to sail with a farmstead...
The fishes'll laugh us down.
In the ocean, like in drug stores, all has meaning, all has weight.
And a ship, just like a human, needs a name to live by.
You don't give a name in vain, I will say it here and now:
As you name the boat, so shall it float! As you name the boat, so shall it float!
Name it "Hercules", and command "full speed ahead!"
and it'll break, with no ice-breaker, all the frozen ice up north!
But name it "Washtub", and there'll be trouble for sure.
That boat'll sink even in a swamp! That boat'll sink even in a swamp!
In the ocean, like in drug stores, all has meaning, all has weight.
And a ship, just like a human, needs a name to live by.
You don't give a name in vain, I will say it here and now:
As you name the boat, so shall it float! As you name the boat, so shall it float!
Just like that, Lom.
Yeah, not for nothing did I name our yacht "Success"!
- Hey, you there on the "Loss"!
Have a good trip!
"Captain Wrongel and the "Loss" yacht"
Scandal, irreparable scandal!
Steer right, and take a course to the open sea!
Lower the sails!
Drop the anchor!
All right, so after two days, we should be at the spot.
We still have some time.
Lom, why are we in such an awkward position?
- I don't know, Christopher Bonifatyevich!
- It's because we've missed the tide
and you haven't slipped the cable, got it?
- Got it, sir, captain, sir!
So, what do we do now?
- We'll have to wait for the tide to go out.
End of Part One (subs - Жукороп & Niffiwan, animatsiya.net)