Fight on board

[happy daze john in oz]

On a slightly different note, anyone see the news article about the W. Australian passenger thrown off a P & O cruise ship for chucking a stubbed out cigarette end over the side. My first thought was that's taking garbage management a bit to far but according to P & O it was because the cigarette could get blown back on board and start a fire. Apparently there have been a number of fires on cruise ships caused by wrongly disposed of cigarettes.
This guy was put ashore in Bali and had to make his own way home.
rgds
JA
p.s. Green is supposedly the most restful on the eyes colour and eau-de-nil is a shade of green. Nearly every ship I sailed on had the bridge wings painted that colour as apart from being restful on the eyes it was not reflective in the hot sun, unlike white.

Yes P&O and all other cruise lines will do similar, there are warnings all over the ship about this and it is one of the major issues talked about at boat drill.
But Royal Caribbean on one cruise we did put two off before we even sailed, they did not attend boat drill for passengers.

[Ivan Cloherty]

#9... Speaking from experience Keith the biggest pain I ever saw on the Bridge was one particular master, when I was 3rd. mate. A pumped up bully of a man with very little knowledge to my way of thinking at the time, who always insisted by night and by day the officer of the watch did his 4 hours on the wing of the bridge good weather and bad, and when ships fitted with Radar would never allow to be switched on. In later years heard he had the same as a lot of us to resort to offshore work, he went to West Africa, lasted 1 tour, couldn't handle a ship himself for all those years at sea was incompetent when it came to the push. Cheers JWS

I sailed with his clone!

[j.sabourn]

#9 The colours to mix in the paints to achieve different shades and total different colours could always be found in Browns Almanac Keith. There were other pages to other short ways of doing things at sea also. Don't know if they still print such almanacs as the present day means of navigation do not need the Suns, Stars and planets LHAs and Right Ascensions and such like. A good old time bosun however had no need to look up for the paint mixing tips as was ingrained in his head, not physically but mentally. Cheers JWS

[John Arton]

And yet i definitely recall the Bosun on one of my trips mixing a small amount of blue paint to the white gloss, he said to improve its whiteness, long before i ever heard of blue dhobi powder. I can see that white gloss could be a pain on the bridge, kt

Keith
That tip of mixing a spot of blue paint into the white was in the Bosuns Manual and it certainly stopped the white used for painting bulkheads from fading due to sunlight. It even works with modern day two part epoxy paints and is especially useful in the engine room. It is important to use the correct shade of blue though.
rgds
JA

[Nigel Smith]

Looking at the video, my heart jumped a beat at 1:50 as the hatch was being lifted and bods immediately dived underneath it