Night shift

**"G"** · 02-16-2017, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by cray

Have done that on a ship for 6-8 months at a time. During the day stand your watch and then work the other 6. Your right if your real lucky and nothing broke down you would get 4-5 hr's sleep every 24. Make a old man out of you in a hurry.

Was that on a sailing ship Charlie ?

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**Cray** · 02-16-2017, 02:41 PM

Not quite, but my first 4 years was on a wooden hull mine sweeper that was only 165 feet long, round bottomed and we were all over the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

**slabin** · 02-16-2017, 03:18 PM

G you know he was on the mayflower

**KnightShadow10** · 02-16-2017, 03:38 PM

The ark did not have sails

**MidMsAngler** · 02-17-2017, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by cray

Have done that on a ship for 6-8 months at a time. During the day stand your watch and then work the other 6. Your right if your real lucky and nothing broke down you would get 4-5 hr's sleep every 24. Make a old man out of you in a hurry.

Like the Capt says "the ship will make you a man and the sea will make you old"

You mean there are days when the plant doesn't try and break down?! Lost all water pressure yesterday when our main water pump burst open and flooded the bilges with our drinking water. Water shorted out the main battery bank, all engine gauge relays to the bridge were trashed and that was before lunch. Now we have a turbo that sounds like she's going out.

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**Cray** · 02-17-2017, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by MidMsAngler

Like the Capt says "the ship will make you a man and the sea will make you old"

You mean there are days when the plant doesn't try and break down?! Lost all water pressure yesterday when our main water pump burst open and flooded the bilges with our drinking water. Water shorted out the main battery bank, all engine gauge relays to the bridge were trashed and that was before lunch. Now we have a turbo that sounds like she's going out.

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That sounds about like a typical day. With all that machinery running hard as it does something always on the fritz. Hopefully the bilge pumps work. One thing I took extra special care of on PM's was the fire pumps. Treat those things like a new born baby when pulling apart and back together. Went through 2 engine room fires at sea. Bad scary. You have some kind of Manuel override on your steering?

**MidMsAngler** · 02-17-2017, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by cray

Not quite, but my first 4 years was on a wooden hull mine sweeper that was only 165 feet long, round bottomed and we were all over the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

That's back when the ships were made of wood and the men were made of steel!

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**MidMsAngler** · 02-17-2017, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by cray

That sounds about like a typical day. With all that machinery running hard as it does something always on the fritz. Hopefully the bilge pumps work. One thing I took extra special care of on PM's was the fire pumps. Treat those things like a new born baby when pulling apart and back together. Went through 2 engine room fires at sea. Bad scary. You have some kind of Manuel override on your steering?

Fire at sea=worst nightmare! I carry spares for my spares when it comes to fire and bilge pumps. Luckily when the pump burst it just transferred water from our main potable water storage tank into the bilge and didn't bring in any more water than we already had on board. Gave us a funny list for awhile though.

Yeah, we run electric over hydraulic steering with a non followup back-up system and can also switch to straight pull hydraulic with a few turns of a wrench.

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