We were requested to do some drops to the West Indies Guard Ship (WIGS) while she was at sea catching drug smugglers. You can stay in Belize till you are called forward they said. The mission wasn't at all tiresome and we duly launched to do the resupply of 4 x 1Ton containers. The procedure required the ship to sail into wind while we ran in from the downwind side at 300ft and the 1 ton loads would be dropped individually at 50 yards off the starboard side. After the second pass the ships captain said "We are getting miles away from our station. Can you drop off our starboard side if we are going astern? Then we can pick up all the loads in a smaller space"
"Never tried it. Give it a go"
It's a bit unnerving seeing one of HM Ships steaming backwards towards you as you run in. It all seemed to go OK though.
