Re: The assumption a hard ship was a happy ship
Reading these posts I am so glad that I was on deck and not an engineer or mate as seems that they had more problems than the rest of us probably because of all the pomp that they had to go through. Yep signed on the Port Macquarie and ended up on a Manz run. The skipper was nuts and for all of us that jumped at different times so that hardly any of the original crew signed of and the union stepped in so that when we returned there was no penalty for any of us due to the conditions of said ship. Can honestly say that if I coud turn back time would still have signed on the same ship simply because of the deck crew at the time. Lewis got to agree with you mate about aging and have you also noticed how much stronger one gets as we get a few more years on us. That part of the body that one could not bend is more easy to bend and how much bigger ones hands have become because it takes two hands to hold the breast instead of one so yes we do change as we age LOL
That's the way the mop flops.
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