On 23 Mar 2017 at 17:28, Timothy Collinson wrote:

> OK, this was weird, I had a really lucid and long and detailed dream
> this morning about being in the water of a Florida marina (no idea
> why), knowing a worldwide catastrophe meant that nearly everyone on
> the planet was dead or gone (no idea why or where or what).  I was
> being dragged by tide & current out to sea and my wife was in the
> water too.  "Ahead" of us was a superyacht (probably more a
> megayacht) also being dragged by tide [1] and I just about managed to
> swim to the rear end where the garage for toys was open with so I
> could climb up and use a jetski to go back and rescue wife who was
> struggling.  Back on the yacht we were then faced with how the heck
> do you start this?  (There was also a bit in the dream about rescuing
> three complete airheads from the water [2] and an orangutan (I really
> really have no idea...) but that's not germane to this.  We did work
> out that there was no power throughout the ship as the generators
> weren't on.  Presumably they would be step #1 as I'd guess that the
> engines might need 'starter motor' power???

I haven't read any of them yet, but this sounds like something from
John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series.

Zombie apocalypse, folks surving on boats & ships in the Caribbean(?)
and raiding island and other ships for supplies and to rescue the
uninfected.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com