Pea coat

HI Richard.
Old seaman used to always wear his sea boots on board or ashore. One day he went to see the Dr about some chaffing he had around his old boy .
The Dr took him into the surgery and sat him down, he said now this may or may not hurt, took a scalpel and went to town up the old boys trouser legs, when he had finished he said now stand up, is that better, yes yes said the old sailor but what did you do? The Dr said I cut three inches off the top of your sea boots.
Cheers Des

Joseph maybe the pea coat was made to go with the whistle which had a pea in. or better known as a pea whistle and which every watchkeeping mate carried. In the good/bad old days was used to call the standby man, one blast to come to bridge, two blasts to go and read the log (if streamed from aft). What with bells being rung every half hour, people blowing whistles, is no wonder some of us still suffer from insomnia today. Know when it was my farmer when serving time tried to get the first hour of stand by in bunk, being a lowly apprentice the mate was always cruel and would blow his whistle 5 minutes into the watch, probably just to fill the kettle which he could probably have done himself. Thinking back should maybe have sweetened the water by dropping a pea of the other variety in it. Cheers JS

I like that Des. Nothing wrong with the sea boots - The deck was built too close to his bollards .

And John S. I've seen some stomach wrenching revenge responses from offended wingers.

Richard

John, talking of cruel mates, my last ship was the norsk coaster Tom Stromer, the chief mate and I didn't get on there was no bosun so all the work was given out by the deck officer,as watchman I had to give him his wake up call, and very often when going into his room one of the deck lads would be asleep on his sofa, a very slimy obnoxious swede, so the chief would give me a crap job and when I had done the hard part he would take me off and put the swede on, then give me another crap job and so on, one morning we were in the Baltic in December and he gave me the job of painting the fore part of the bridge, so I did all the cutting in including two big vents, when said chief came and said leave that now boy and put the swede on to finnish with the roller, well that was it saw my bum good style, so to get him back, when it was my turn to wake him iwould go in his room and if he was asleep I left him, later on he said "why didn't you call me, ididnt get any breackfast "I said I did chief you said you where awake, this went on for a week, the bad jobs stopped. joe