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[JerryM]

Buoy - Any bets on how long some of these tough talkin' squids would keep from turnin' green if they went to sea in anything other than a floating city.  Maybe we could try to arrange a short cruise in the crows nest on the Eagle, or take them to Cape Disappointment to make a training run.

To me, there was never anything so awesome as spending a few weeks in a stalled hurricane on ocean station Delta in a 311' WAVP. What a wonderful ride. It gives you enough exercise to burn off all the calories in the big meals those great CG cooks put out.   

The only other ride that even comes close is a Wind-class breaker on the last leg of the trip to McMurdo Station (or the first leg of the trip back out). I once saw a roll on  the Eastwind that actually lifted my feet off the deck & left me dangling from the grab bar on the Sperry Mk III radar repeater.

Jerry

[Jack]

Congratulations Bill, well done.

The Bering Sea off Dutch Harbor in winter made a wind class move a wee bit also or riding  off the Oregon Coast in winter during el nino - saw the pitch indicator hover around 40-45 degrees - we were making turns for 16 kts and progressed 4 miles in 5 hours.

[Thor]

NOT a "City"

Another smaller ship

A little bigger

A little smaller

The BIGGEST ship I was on

I was on the USS Carl Vinson, but only for a day!!

Just because I was aviation doesn't mean I worked on Fixed Wing Aircraft!!!

(If it don't hover, it's queer!!)

[Salba]

It depends on which Navy we're talkin about... gator navy would do just find... they've been eatin the bird farm's and cruisers dust for years... they know how to rock and roll... and would have made fine Coasties...  Being a sailor on most naval vessels (minus amphibs, greyhounds)... is like dressing up for holloween 365 per year!

 

Friggin floating cities .... steel on target!

Best Wishes

[EX-CG-GM]

Hmmm, let's see.....the 'not a city' is 581 feet long.

The largest high Endurance Cutter in the Coast Guard is 378 feet.....

I went through a typhoon  (THROUGH, not skirting) on a 255.

Bering Sea on a 311.

And a variety of other seriously crappy weather on 180 foot buoy tenders and a 327.

Sorry, anything over 500 feet may not be a city, but it sure as hell qualifies as a TOWN!

 

[LTGunner]

Been on many boats.....of all kinds...Bass Boat..Air Boat ...John Boat....Pontoon Boat.Tug Boat(another story)..But I  WILL not go on any damn ship...

Whew, thank gosh all we have is boats & cutters!

[vftb]

Typhoon season in the South China Sea in a 180' can be a barrel of fun too if you like that kind of thing (I love it)  .  If we're going to tell sea stories, the one that sticks out in my mind the most is cruising in the middle of the night on the edge of a typhoon, sitting on the bridge wing with a cigar  (that was for the ensign and SN on watch), and taking a roll where it felt like my elbow was going to touch the water.  Now my elbow didn't get wet, it was only a sensation, but the ensign caught 47 degrees on the inclinometer.

[EX-CG-GM]

I've taken a 45 and maybe a bit beyond.  Had the wind thingy (anemometer?) blown off the mast.

There is something exhiliratingly elemental in being on a relatively small ship when encountering such weather.  All in all I'd say the typhoon when I was on the Chautauqua (255 feet for those that don't know)was the one that really got my attention.  There were a couple guys that put on life jackets.  After getting beaten to death trying to find a secure place below decks I went up to the bridge and hung out for awhile.  Green water all the way to the bridge.

Scary as hell but exciting at the same time. Literally threw me out of my rack.

I went to a reunion a couple years ago and that storm was one of everyone's favorite tales.

[LTGunner]

Well, some cutters fair better than others:



USCGC BEAR (WMEC 901) along side an underway replenishment ship. 
(Or is it a rare picture of a cutter returning from the World's End?)

[EX-CG-GM]

Great pic!

[BuoyJumper]

Typhoon season in the South China Sea in a 180' can be a barrel of fun too if you like that kind of thing (I love it)  .   Now my elbow didn't get wet, it was only a sensation, but the ensign caught 47 degrees on the inclinometer.

V ... here's Spar WLB-403 taking a 45 degree off of the Maine coast on a SAR call. I took a 45 degree roll on the Mesquite in the fall of 1966 trying to lasso an Army Corp of Engineers barge that had broken loose from her moorings and drifted into the shipping lanes during a very bad fall storm in which two ore carriers sunk on the Great Lakes.  Scary feeling being on the helm and you look out of the bridge wing door and all you see is the water along side the ship.

[Thor]

Hell, The Seattle (AOE3) could only take 17 degree rolls. Anything more than that and she'd capsize if she wasn't fully laden. Of course, we were in a storm that we were taking water OVER the bridge on that ship. Yeah, an 800 ft Ship with a 45' above the waterline main deck was taking water over the bridge. Yee Hawwwwww. 16 pt tiedowns on the helicopters in the aft, and the tie downs still shook with every wave.

[vftb]

Actually Thor, I think it's been mentioned before that in a lot of cases it's easier and possibly safer to ride out rough weather and seas in a smaller ship rather than large.  We kind of bob around while one of your floating cities don't take the seas nearly as well.    No matter what, you gotta love green over the bridge 

[ollie]

http://www.zunimaritime.org/docs/gsa_july-aug_article.pdf

If this works, go to page 7 of the document and watch as the bow of the Tam submarines into the atlantic.

ollie

[BuoyJumper]

Good post Bill the link is fine.  Seeing the water come up the hause pipe reminds me of one of my favorite things to do when the Mesquite was underway in rough weather.  I loved to sit in the boom shack (it was enclosed on the MESQUITE where on many other one eighties the boom shack was open to the weather) and watch the white water engulf the foscle and blow out the hause pipe and then cascade over the aft edge of the foscle onto the buoy deck. It was quite a show.

These photos are from the CGC IRONWOOD's April 1966 West Pac trip but it looks just like the MESQUITE.