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Keeping Food For The Panama Mules .
How many of you guys were duped into keeping left/overs to feed the mules your first time through the canal ?? I was !!!
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Re: Keeping Food For The Panama Mules .
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George Gunn
How many of you guys were duped into keeping left/overs to feed the mules your first time through the canal ?? I was !!!
I did see one galley boy who was told to hump a sack of carrots up to the bridge. I was told first hand that the canal pilot just about fell off his chair laughing.
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Hi George.
I was lucky I was on my third trip before I went through the Panama, but our galley boy did keep all the scraps for a few days , felt sorry for him when he found out. but he took it in good humor when he saw and was amazed by the Mules.
Des
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Re: Keeping Food For The Panama Mules .
Sorry for the bloods who were told to keep their left over dinner rolls for the mules.
Not amused I can ashore you
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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Re: Keeping Food For The Panama Mules .
Used to bunker in Cristobal before going through the canal on our way up to B.C so always had a good run ashore before transit, so during transit I was suffering from a horrendous hangover. As cadet I was mainly employed taking cold drinks to the forward pilots as we were entering the locks.
Rgds
J.A
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