Damn dude... TELL ME MORE! That was a great little story. You should post some on s/boats. I'm making a little wooden sailboat and hoping to learn this summer.
This is not the ship, but it was the same kind as. Roughly 600 people aboard, Deck dept handled the rigging, watchstanding and painting, was about 300 of us. You havent lived until you've hung over the side at 13knots. Ships like this dont exist in the Navy anymore, but the merchant marines have em (civilian sealift command)
When I rotated watch I was used to it already, but someone I had been at sea with for years, stumbled out in front of me, stopped, wobbled and then puked right on the deck. I chuckled, suggested he clean it up before someone slipped, and I laughed as I relieved the next station.
After the storm our linereel was ripped off and landed on the wench deck (center area full of big wenches(machines not hookers)) and trashed several wench stations. The linereel, is for hauser/hawser mooring line, its fucking big, like something goliath would use as a spool of thread, solid steel and its on 2 arms so it can spin (not so easily) and we store the lines on them. The 2 solid steel arms were not just bent, but bent back flat against the bulkhead, like it was nothing.
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We had fun with your story. My wife is shit-scared of water so I read it all dramatically. :). Kids were rivited. The large-ship thing is a very different world that not a lot see.
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