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    Fitting a starter motor on a R R gennie when rolling and pitching, especially as the space fit was narrow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vic mcclymont View Post
    Fitting a starter motor on a R R gennie when rolling and pitching, especially as the space fit was narrow.
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    Funny really, Rolls Royce generators were the noisiest I ever sailed with, quietest were the Deutz, but being a deckie I didn't mind, the noise lulled you to sleep, it's when they stopped you shot out of your bunk

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    Sorry to appear thick (but I am anyway).

    What do the VRC's tell you and where do you get them ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty View Post
    Keith has mentioned most of it, but hasn't mentioned the agility, strength and balance required to perform these tasks, most of which could not be carried out with a drink inside you. Putting the description of work on paper doesn't portray what knowledge and training was necessary to carry out these tasks, one mistake and lives could be lost very easily, and unfortunately on occasions were.




    I feel sure many others will describe other jobs in detail, lets put it this way, somehow I never got chance to be bored, even on the longest slowest sea passages, there was always some task, which you thought would be okay until mother nature came along and made you do it all over again
    I remember the process well Ivan, tabling the first or was it the second tarp before the last one finishing with the bar and wedges. But I don’t remember having to point the edges in a particular direction as you mention. Was there a specific point to this practice?
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    Remember the procedure on the hatch tarps and wedges etc, all to prevent the onboard green ones teasing away at the tarps, and driving the wedges further in, as opposed to pushing them out. i remember as standby man having to do the rounds with a big mallet, and tapping them home, or checking they were not loose, dodging the spray etc on the way. I can also recall on the wheel as she shipped the green ones, thinking i hope those tarps and wedges hold, otherwise it would have been *dive dive*, kt
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duke Drennan View Post
    I remember the process well Ivan, tabling the first or was it the second tarp before the last one finishing with the bar and wedges. But I don’t remember having to point the edges in a particular direction as you mention. Was there a specific point to this practice?
    You probably knew at the time Duke, just slipped your memory for a moment, as Keith said to present a large surface to the sea to force them home rather than out, and also folding the corners in a way so that the sea and wind could not get into them to billow them out, that was the hard part when the tarps were frozen, the for'd corners so the triangle was facing aft and the aft corners folded round the aft end of the hatch coaming facing inboard. Funny the things you remember and others temporarily forget. As the Malteser says, it all makes sense now!

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    Thanks Ivan. I always prided myself in remembering most things from my days at sea but that one caught me out. I guess that most of the ships I was on had McGregors.
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    [QUOTE=Robert George Young;341896During sea days could somebody tell me what able seaman did in the 50’s and 60’s?
    What you be a typical daily routine for an AB?

    Thank you[/QUOTE]

    C'mon boys, lets have a few more jobs described to help Bob understand that his father had skills unknown to those who never went to sea (don't suppose in this PC world we can call them landlubbers anymore)

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    Well as catering I can recall being awoken in the early hours of the morning to the sound of chipping hammers.
    Then in the evening in the pig having a pint.
    Between those time I do not have a clue.
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