In my Navy days, we once spent 3 days on the edge of a typhoon. You
basically don't want much food, maybe a piece of fruit once in a while. You
couldn't stay in your bunk so you went to your normal duty station, grabbed
a couple life jackets for pillows and curled up on the deck where you could
brace yourself. You didn't go for and aft on the main deck. Lines were
rigged on the 2nd deck to hang on to, to go for and aft and you would judge
the waves and run. This was on a DDE where you couldn't go for and aft
inside.
Destroyers just naturally go under one wave and over the next. Due to the
lenght I guess.
Gordon
BTW, Used to have a friend who always was seasick for the first 3 or 4 days
at sea. He would stand watch holding a bucket or at least keeping it very
close. Talk about not eating!
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On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:30:43 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:26:13 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
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Going up hills.....BBBBAAAAWWWAAAHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Hills..

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I've seen plenty of hills off the Rhode Island and Maine coasts.
They
also move. I think you would agree that a 2.2 hp is no match for a
moving hill.

Sorry - I keep forgetting that my unfortunate brand of humor doesn't
seem to work on this august body of great and not so great
personages.

Sometimes I just can't help myself. :)

Remember the Quicksilver surf contest is the "men who ride mountains".

I've actually seen some of those "mountains" in Guam of all places.

And, without getting into the great "wave height" debate, I have some
pictures around here my Dad's XO took on convoy duty in the North
Atlantic during WWII when he commanded a DE.

Them's some BIG waves. I used to love to hear the stories he and his
shipmates used to tell about asking their Group Commander for
submariner designation because they spent more time under and through
the waves than over them. :)

Hey, it was funny to a kid. :)

Later,

Tom

My roommate at school was on the Bonne Homme Richard in a Typhoon in the
South Pacific. The one that bent the front of the deck 90 degrees down.
He said they could have sandwiches and coffee, and they had green water
rolling down the deck. He said they felt for the DE's and destroyers, as
they spend more time under water than above. And I guess they had no food
during the storm.