The best of the maritime tales...

Epoxy cracking

Best maritime tale:

"Men, i can hear the epoxy cracking"

It was on a steel boat.

Don't ask me where the sound came from, we were not in a collision.

 

I always hear that fishermen is not like other sailors.
Thanx god I worked on offshore vesels like supply,rov,standby and so on

 

Well, I was talking about the first voyage around the world in this thread (http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11568)
when I realized that perhaps some of you don't know about Pigafetta book.

Pigafetta was one of the adventurers who has survived that voyage (from 235 only 18 managed to make it).

He has written a book describing that voyage.

It is a fantastic book. You can "see" that voyage by the eyes of one of the guys that have made it. Fantastic stuff!

http://bba-intl.com/bbafyipigafetta.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486280993/104-8200374-5343956?v=glance&n=283155

 

I gues all countrys play games with there young that step onboard a ship for the first time.

One joke practised for many years is the key to the pregnancy .

Often one off the deck officers tell a young aprentice to go to the chief engineer and ask for the key to the pregnancy and the chief engineer hand them the bigest spanner they got and the poor dude has to pull it up the ladder's all the way up to the deck(popular on bulk cariers, tankers and sutch) and when they come up the rest off the crue is laughting off them oohhh boy it no pregnancy onboard here.

Some times this has blown up in the face off the joker like when the chief told the aprentice not to come back with the key and the only one allowed to come back with it was the first officer witch then had to carry it back down.

Another time the poor guy come up on deck and they guys laughtin and telling him it's no sutch thing as a pregnancy onboard here, the answer was that then you wont nead the key eather and the key ended up on the bottom off the north atlantic.

Look at the largest spanner you got in your garadge and then try to imagine how large it would nead to be on a engine with a stroke off 2,5m

And not only aterial cost off sutch large spanner, but the low production quantety make the price high and moust off them are special tool's from engine manufacturer.

 

The best of maritime tales...

 

No,no,no...as usual you got it all wrong . The guy was not a navigator, it was the first intercontinental turist . He was not a Portuguese, he has a Genovese, born in Vicenza (Italy did not exist in those days).

 

The bestof maritime tales.....

Oh...THAT Pigafetta...The foreign chappie.....

(ps Vega) -have started reading it. What a thumping good yarn...thanks again for pointing me in the right direction....

 

You can just hear them down around Cape Horn can't you - " another bloody tourist, what will these Portugese come out with next, push the prices up again" Wonder if he knew what he was starting! and if he had would he?

 

Alex Whitworth (63) and Peter Crozier (60) - Have you heard about these two old salts? well, I think they deserve a place in this thread about tales...judge by yourself.

"The veteran yachtsmen Alex Whitworth (63) and Peter Crozier (60) like a challenge. In 1998, sailing Berrimilla, one of the smallest boats in the Sydney to Hobart fleet, they took on the savage storm that hit the race, leaving six dead and several boats sunk. They made it to the finish line, winning their division. In 2004/2005 they have decided to go one better.

In early January 2005, after Alex and Peter completed the 2004 Sydney to Hobart, they dismissed the rest of the crew and sailed off eastwards on the long way home to Sydney via Cape Horn, England, Cape of Good Hope and the Southern Ocean.

In July 2005 they sailed in the Fastnet race winning 11th place on handicap. From Falmouth, England, they then returned to Sydney around the Cape of Good Hope. While at sea in the Southern Ocean, they were awarded the 2005 Seamanship Trophy by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, London, for outstanding seamanship.


Reaching Sydney just 5 days out from the 2005 Sydney to Hobart, the restocked, recrewed, and made the Boxing Day start line. In Hobart for New Years Eve, then back to Sydney on the 9th of January 2006. "

Their boat is a 10.2 metre, 28 year old yacht.

“Everyone in the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet is looking forward to welcoming Berrimilla back at the end of an extraordinary sailing achievement,” said CYCA Commodore Geoff Lavis.

“When the fleet lines up for the start of the race, those two men will have the respect of every sailor on every boat – from the large maxis to the other small boats.”


http://www.berrimilla.com/
http://www.cyca.com.au/newsDetail.asp?key=2178
http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_details.asp?raceEntryID=6061

 

Okay, I'll tell you the damned Bananas story! My friend was an able seaman aboard a refrigerated cargo ship sailing from the Bahamas to Hamburg. He had made this run a couple of times with the same bunch of fools, and had learned their habits. When the bananas were loaded, most of the creepy-crawlies would go to sleep in the cold refrigerated hold. But a few days before they came into port, they'd shut of the coolers and all kinds of godaweful things would start to stirr. One of the aforementioned fools used to like to climb into the hold and catch the spiders and snakes that found their way in there. He caught a huge , strangely marked snake in a duffel bag, and told all his shipmates that he was going to take it to the Hamburg Zoo. The damed thing got loose on the ship and they never saw it again. They all hoped it escaped over the side.

As for the brown sugar, apparently the lowly labourers that would have to load the barges and lifts to take out to the freighters ( in shallow caribean ports) would have a bit of fun with the german sailors by taking turns having a big **** in the middle of the load.

 

Ok heres mine.It was late night about 2:30 in the morning me and my brother were on are way out sturgen fishing in the carquinze strights.Well we put our boat in the water in vallejo and started out but as soon as we turned the cornner out of the napa river onto the strights we relized it wae to dark to see where we were going so we decided to take a nap tell morning .So we both went down in the cuddy to lay down.after awile we noticed how bad the boat was rolling and thought nothing of it so we fell asleep.all of a sudden I woke up and i was wet well my brother forgot to put the plug in the boat.So you could imagin the mayham that was going on looking for the plug.We found the plug and dropped it in the bay.but managed to fined another one so i went in and put the plug in and was able to pump out all the water so we went bake to sleep after we got out of our wet clothes.Well when morning came and we woke up i noticed that the boat was moving at all so when i looked I couldnt see water no where it was like someone picked us up and put us out into a field.well i guess i was the highest tide of the year that night. We were stuck out there for four nights and three days with 1 beer 1 candybar and 1 cig.and the only way out is to walk out in a mud field slew up to my waist about a mile to the hwy and try to get a ride well needless to say nobody wanted to pick me up so i had to walk anouther three miles to town .Well thats my story and im sticking to it

 

good one ,,,,,,,longliner

 

There's a moral in that story somewhere (something to do with carrying a clean set of clothes at all times! But hell yes I bet you were popular!

 

Okay, how about

Traffic control:..... you are in a traffic controlled area, alter course to xxxxxx, over

Captain: Fu** it, over.

I know the drunk that did that too....quite a shame really. Good line though.

 

Yeah bet that ruffled a few feathers! these traffic control people like to think they are important! They do have some good input but 'tis the way they tell it! mostly ex third mates and deck hands that can't get any higher!

that'll get some smarta*** going, that's my repartation gone (again)