Manning Scales.

[Les Woodard]

Yep I stuffed up and the first to admit it. How about when bored on lookout one would gather the rat guards and tie them together then hang them from a heaving line. Then run the heaving line down alongside the hatch's. Relief would come and after a while you pulled the heaving line to make the rat guards rattle and end up in stiches at the reaction of the lookout at the sudden noise especially on a very calm night.

[Des Jenkins]

Hi Ivan
Have a nice time dangling your fandango
Cheers Des

[James Curry]

Another great pleasure was just lying on the boat deck aft of the funnel , an old Doxford plodding away and star gazing. Disgusted with myself I should really have added to my education learning the names of different stars and constellations. Are there more stars visable in the Southern Hemisphere than the North. I could locate the likes of Orion, Southern Cross , Sirus and the North Star/Polaris.

I know this sounds soft but I am usually late to bed and have the dish washer timed to start at midnight, often on how it is stacked it sounds like a Ships engine going slow ahead, often sends me to sleep, but wake up with a start as I have dropped my book