Judging a book by its cover.

Hi Paul.
I Liked your story, even though it was about bullying. I only had one incidence, when a AB jumped on my back when we were paying off on my first trip, as I was Peggy, I had cleaned everything up, but he had to go and shave his beard off in one of the sinks and told me to clean it up, I told him to get stuffed as I had finished, I was lucky as the big bosun came in and thumped him, then made him clean it up.
It is surprising how many times on this site that there has been stories of problems in the galley between the cooks, and or galley boys and cooks.
Let us have your ring bolt story.
Des

On the Paproa we had a galley boy, young lad on his second trip.
From somewhere up north a likable sort of guy, bit quiet at times.

The cook regularly pulled meat from the freezer and left it outside of there on a table to defrost ready for next day.

This young lad was sent down to bring up the chickens for the days food supply.
Gone for too long said the cook, will have to go and see where he is.
Poor bloody cook comes back up after a couple of minutes with a very white face and a very odd look.
After a couple of minutes he explained, the young galley boy had been making love with the **** end of a defrosted chook.

We did eventually laugh but no way was I eating chook that night.

Hi Des,
Thanks for that, will do the ringbolt story later today.
Cheers, Paul.

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Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz

On the Paproa we had a galley boy, young lad on his second trip.
From somewhere up north a likable sort of guy, bit quiet at times.

The cook regularly pulled meat from the freezer and left it outside of there on a table to defrost ready for next day.

This young lad was sent down to bring up the chickens for the days food supply.
Gone for too long said the cook, will have to go and see where he is.
Poor bloody cook comes back up after a couple of minutes with a very white face and a very odd look.
After a couple of minutes he explained, the young galley boy had been making love with the **** end of a defrosted chook.

We did eventually laugh but no way was I eating chook that night.

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It might have been him who did the same for floor show in an Algerian establishment?

did you chook it away tony?lol jp

#1. The longest time I spent at sea without stepping ashore was 7 weeks and 2 days sailing between Lautoka in the Fiji Islands and Liverpool with a cargo of sugar. We stopped at Suva to drop off the 'crewboys' (employed to load the sugar). The reason it took so long was not only because the MV Dartmoor (Runciman's Newcastle) was a slow tramp steamer, but because the ship had to stop every day for a couple of hours for essential maintenance on the engine. We took on bunkers and victuals at Balboa but didn't get ashore in the canal zone. I was a deck boy at the time and my steering wasn't too good, that may have added a few more hours to the voyage. I got my steering certificate off Captain TR Rowe for doing 200 hours on the helm (the ship did not have an Iron Mike). Loading the sugar was unusual too and took ages. The bags of sugar came down from the factory to the jetty by train, then the bags were carried aboard by the crewboys who would then slash the hessian bags open with a knife and empty the bags down the hold. I remember at the Tate and Lyle warehouse Liverpool, watching young kids hanging on the backs of waggons on their way from the dock to the refinery, and stuffing unrefined brown sugar that clung to the wagon tailgate, into their mouths. I dread to think what state their teeth were in. PC R710198.

liked lautoka ...our now deceased richard also loved and lived in lautoka fiji .....i met a oz girl there she was a cracker ....she was crewing a sailing yacht from oz round the islands ....it was a hot time she asked me to come aboard there were three others i was very tempted but had only a couple of years before skinned out in wallaroo ....28 days hard labour in adelaide nick... todays kids wouldnt know what hit them in that nick ....didnt like that but i was worried jumping again could get me chucked out altogether ...funny world i was madly in love moonlight beaches stars like lighthouses supping kava....strange couldnt remember her name today for 10 million quid .....happy days

Ah, that young age Cappy, where the stirring in the groins take over from common sense !!!, how many times in my life has that got me into deep do do !!, kt

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Ah, that young age Cappy, where the stirring in the groins take over from common sense !!!, how many times in my life has that got me into deep do do !!, kt

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Unfortunate choice of words Keith, unless you sailed with UCL!!

Thats one of two things i never tried Ivan, never fancied that and tripe and onions, but if you really forced me, ill take the tripe and onions, kt