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[Captain Kong]

Just the same Ivan..
Never bored, That is why I went to sea. Even on a five month trip, never going ashore, around the Cape to the Gulf and back at a steady 8 knots, sometimes stop engines and drift with the Aghulas Current and Benguela currents to save fuel.
Saturday nights we had Horse Racing and place your bets in the Crew Lounge, and Sunday mornings on the fore deck, welly throwing over the flying bridge, 175 foot beam, winner got a case of ale. then after Sunday lunch time, Dart teams in the Officers Lounge. Crew Versus Officers
I would also paint pictures in the cabin,
On watch there was always something to see, sea birds, Flying fish, whales, giant Manta Rays etc.and night time watching shooting stars and the milky way, etc.
We had the Best Job in the World.
Being a Shore Fella must have been really really Boring.
What a wonderful way of life.
Cheers
Brian.

[robpage]

I sailed , a long time ago , with a third and fifth engineer on watch together , who after watch , after shower at half past midnight in the bar , would indulge in the game of who could light the best fart , you cocked uop both legs and farted across the Ronson Varaflame , it stopped after teh fifthj engineer , performing a great fart got a blow back and a severe burn on a place creamed twice a day for a week afterwards

[Ivan Cloherty]

I sailed , a long time ago , with a third and fifth engineer on watch together , who after watch , after shower at half past midnight in the bar , would indulge in the game of who could light the best fart , you cocked uop both legs and farted across the Ronson Varaflame , it stopped after teh fifthj engineer , performing a great fart got a blow back and a severe burn on a place creamed twice a day for a week afterwards

Thinking back Rob, I never met an engineer with a hobby at sea, just an observation nothing more, seemed to fill their time reading, laying on #4 or lighting farts or swigging back beer

[robpage]

I knew one who built a remote control aeroplane , but was not happy when it lost the signal and invaded Senegal . One who did a high level of photography , but took reels of film home to develop , several car fanatics , one who did a close examination of a racing car in the forecastle stowage with a shifting spanner spanner . and a few brass workers , one on the Pendennis who spent his whole life trying to convert a boiler gauge into an inclinometer and a swell indicator for the fore and aft , but both needles operating in the same plane , he never got that to work . several who converted small pistons into ashtrays , in the lathe . It is just being troglodytes we are secretive sensitive creatures , who can convert empty beer cans into any metalwork you desire .