Boy, ain’t THAT the truth. . . . where am I?
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Anyone wondering what the Coastal Sea is up to?
https://cdn.afresearchlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/03154902/AFRL_Quicksink_FS_0222.pdf
As often as I grumbled about the condition and quirks of that boat I kind of cringed when I saw he it ended.
Still some nice memories associated with it.
I have just read back a few posts!. Why did you have to close up the hatch when a rain squall could be handled with a hatch tent.
A fitting Viking funeral for a gallant little ship. In the 21 years we owned her she moved 128,480 LT for us over 173 voyages and 715,000 nautical miles. Survived God knows how many storms. Never lost a man. Sold in 2014 to Friend Ships Unlimited.
We don’t use hatch tents in the Aleutians. Two reasons: 1) Wind. To get a hatch tent to survive strong winds would take an extraordinary amount of effort and rigging. 2) The cargo booms on an Aleutian freighter are re-spotted several times a day. A hatch tent’s rigging would need to be readjusted when this happens, and no one has time for that.
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I was never a crewmember on the Sunmar Sea, I was on a different ship. We didn’t stop cargo for every passing rain shower. We didn’t need no stinking hatch tents.
I don’t know what cargo you were loading but I would guarantee it wasn’t frozen lamb or a cereal crop .
The stinking would come later than the hatch tent.
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It was this ship.
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