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| Title: | SAILING |
| Notice: | Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference |
| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
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| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2299 |
| Total number of notes: | 20724 |
Last Sunday night there was a program on call Mariner on the
Discovery channel. It has several 10 min sections on various types
of shipping. From explaining the life of a North Sea ocean going tug
to working a fishing boat in the winter, to an interview with
a guy who use to bum around on his sailboat before becoming a captain
for an inter-island freighter in the South Pacific.
To hear this one guy explain about how his fishing boat iced up
during the night in a gale and then rolled over, and how the life raft
didn't want to work. So matter of factly, yet he goes, oh yes, we lost
3 guys by the time we had the raft deployed. Unbelieveable.
It was really neat to watch as you could see the logic these folks
use to function, and many ports of call from a working person's point
of view. If you get a chance to view an episode, I think you may
like it as much as I did.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1810.1 | | DEMOAX::GINGER | Ron Ginger | Wed Nov 13 1991 08:23 | 3 |
| This sounds exactly like the movie shown in the Newport New Mariners
Museum in VA. I particularly remember the last sequence of the
inter-island freighter.
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