I agree with Chief_Seadog. I was on a ship where we were allowed one beer or wine with dinner if we weren’t on watch, and if you were, the cook would keep one for you once you were relieved from watch. The crew would gather on the quarterdeck, (even ones that didn’t drink) traded sea-stories, jokes, sports and troubles, triumphs or homesickness we had back home …and sip our beverage, smoke a cig or cigar… It was a time to the crew to bond together. almost as if we were family. BBQs, swim-calls, fishing calls…
Then under new management, we were asked to be a dry ship. Since that became policy, after dinner everybody just retreated to their room after dinner, isolating themselves even more that the lonely life we have at sea.
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