What is an idler aboard a tall ship?

What is the chief charcteristic of an idler?

Name some typical roles of an idler.

Isn't that just being available for whatever might come up... as in idler
watch?

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"Bart Senior" wrote in message
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What is an idler aboard a tall ship?

What is the chief charcteristic of an idler?

Name some typical roles of an idler.

Bart Senior wrote:
What is an idler aboard a tall ship?


An engine that's not throttled up?

I've heard the term applied to people other than the captain
who do not stand regular watches... the cook for example, or
the purser.

What is the chief charcteristic of an idler?


He has something else to do that is important to the
functioning of the ship.

Name some typical roles of an idler.


It used to be that Chief Engineers didn't stand watch but I
think they do nowadays. In the old days, the carpenter
didn't stand watch.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Bart Senior wrote:
What is an idler aboard a tall ship?
Robert Brody

What is the chief charcteristic of an idler?
he resembles a bear right before going into hibernation

Name some typical roles of an idler.
Internet troll

Correct. An idler is someone who does not stand a watch.

Idlers are carpenters, cooks, etc, as you stated.

They are also responsible for swapping the decks in the
morning and the ritual of holystoning the decks.

"DSK" wrote

Bart Senior wrote:
What is an idler aboard a tall ship?

I've heard the term applied to people other than the captain who do not
stand regular watches... the cook for example, or the purser.

What is the chief charcteristic of an idler?


He has something else to do that is important to the functioning of the
ship.

Name some typical roles of an idler.


It used to be that Chief Engineers didn't stand watch but I think they do
nowadays. In the old days, the carpenter didn't stand watch.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

I just looked it up... there is something called an idler watch.

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"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
Correct. An idler is someone who does not stand a watch.

Idlers are carpenters, cooks, etc, as you stated.

They are also responsible for swapping the decks in the
morning and the ritual of holystoning the decks.

"DSK" wrote

Bart Senior wrote:
What is an idler aboard a tall ship?

I've heard the term applied to people other than the captain who do not
stand regular watches... the cook for example, or the purser.

What is the chief charcteristic of an idler?


He has something else to do that is important to the functioning of the
ship.

Name some typical roles of an idler.


It used to be that Chief Engineers didn't stand watch but I think they do
nowadays. In the old days, the carpenter didn't stand watch.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:
Bart Senior wrote:

Correct. An idler is someone who does not stand a watch.

Idlers are carpenters, cooks, etc, as you stated.


Sort of a fore runner of the technician class.


They are also responsible for swapping the decks in the
morning and the ritual of holystoning the decks.


That means Katysails was also right!

DSK

I don't think it's the decks Bobby swaps....

That means Katysails was also right!


katy wrote:
I don't think it's the decks Bobby swaps....

Yuck.... TMI

DSK

DSK wrote:

Sort of a fore runner of the technician class.


Hey I resembled that! As an ET (electronics tech to the non-Navy folks)
I didn't stand watches while at sea. Unless of course you're an ET on a
tender...then you get to stand radar watch while at sea, because there's
no radarmen assigned to the ship that stand watches, and hang around at
the head of the pier with a .45 pistol and no bullets waving to trucks
and cars. Ahhh...the good old days of the late 60's...pulling into the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and trying to track a pile of targets using
a repeater designed sometime in late WWII, but only recently (as in the
Korean conflict) built...wonderful green blob on the screen and the bozo
officer saying "give me a range on Bravo Sierra". At least on the
second ship they let us have bullets, I stood quarterdeck watch while in
port for it.

No bullets?

It used be be you could fight and die for
your coutry, now you can just die.

"Steve Thrasher" wrote

officer saying "give me a range on Bravo Sierra". At least on the
second ship they let us have bullets, I stood quarterdeck watch while in
port for it.