So last thurs I went sailing, and left off just before the milk fiasco! As we were sailing during the morning it was a lot of to-do: tour this and show that and check out this. Finally, around lunch time, we slowed right down and headed on up for a nice spaghetti and / or hot-dog snack. During the morning, we were supposed to have the machine gun drills, the 450 cals. attached the sides of the vessel. Unfortunately it was delayed, which meant it didn't start until the middle of lunch time. I don't know about you, but I think it hilarious when half the people eating on deck jump out of their skins every 3 mins when the guns go off.
Afterwards it was a good hour till the next show-off drill, so we went on down to the Chiefs ad PO's mess. The mess is a beautiful lounge with flat screen tvs, a mini bar, couches, some tables to sit and eat at, and a window opening directly into the galley to get food stuffs. The mess is a rotation job that everyone is assigned at one point, but today it was fun by Hall, a cool young cat who volunteered so another could take the time off. Hall was in his twenties, lanky, had tattoos, and plays the guitar - in effect, the perfect man for my godsister. Needless to say we picked on her mercilessly.
About an hour of chatting away and watching YTV, the whistle called for the next demonstration: The Man-Over-Board. We headed on up. Now, in order to collect a man over board, the boat must turn completely around and have him out of the water in under 5 mins. I don't know about you, but turning in a boat going 35 knots is incredibly fun. To illustrate the process, here is a man standing straight on the boat while level : l
a man standing up straight on a boat turning is standing like \ and the more sharp the turn the more diagonal you stand. Walking down hallways almost sideways is really fun.
So we get up top and rescue the man over board in 4 mins something seconds. Then a helicopter circles us and shows us how they lower and pull up people in ropes for search and rescue missions. Pretty cool, took some pictures, then headed back down.
Amusingly enough we find Hall in the.. well, the hall out side the Chiefs and PO's mess leading a group of big guys carrying the milk machine from the mess. Apparently, Hall tells us, almost immediately after we left the milk machine decided that being bolted to a wall was stupid, and that it would rip off its hinges and fly to safety.
Seriously.
This machine was the size of a two and a half microwaves. It was big. Luckily enough it missed all three people standing around it and hit an opposite wall undeterred. It was still pretty awesome.
For those of you wondering: it actually stayed intact. Their was a dent in it the size of andre the giants fist, but it was still intact.
The rest of the day was beautiful and amusing. Naps were taken and shows were watched and then it rained a fuck ton of rain/hail victoria weather with cold winds and bogusness.
we docked in the rain, walked home in the rain, and dried off out of the rain. My dry jacket spent maybe 8 mins-10 mins out side and it was soaked through as if I'd dropped it in the ocean.
Well, it was a certainly amusing adventure :)
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