All the USCG cadets spend some time on her during their 4-year stint at the Academy.
We like to take out of state visitors for a tour of her, when she in in port. A remarkable history...our only square-rigger.
Posted on 05/11/2012 9:37:32 PM PDT by Windflier
A video salute to all you sailors and mariners out there. You're the bravest people on earth.
Try being aboard a fishing boat, in 30’ swells. can you say, experience six motions all at once ....rock, roll, pitch, yaw, surge, sway and heave! Terrifying. :)
Now there's a group who are a breed apart. I can't even think with challenging some of the waves I've seen these daredevils ride.
All the USCG cadets spend some time on her during their 4-year stint at the Academy.
We like to take out of state visitors for a tour of her, when she in in port. A remarkable history...our only square-rigger.
My only real sailing experience was in the late 80’s.
I was on something of a pleasure cruise with about eight other people on a 40 foot sailboat. We lit out from Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, to head up the Sacramento River to the city of Sacramento.
After about ten minutes on San Francisco Bay, the Skipper calls me over to the helm and gives me some basic instruction on how to steer the boat. He then tells me that I’m going to pilot the boat to the river inlet and leaves me to it.
Some hours later, I’d steered the boat across the bay and some miles upriver, when the Skipper finally relieved me from the helm. It was only at that point that he informed me that I’d just handled the toughest stretch of water in the Northern Hemisphere.
I’ll tell you what. I believed him. I was so sore and bone weary, that I nearly had to be carried to a bunk to sleep off the exhaustion.
Fair weather Uss Enterprise Cvn 65 video landing: http://laststandonzombieisland.com/2012/01/30/coast-guard-schooners-for-arctic-missions/
The link you posted goes to an article called “Coast Guard Schooners for Arctic Missions”. Do you have a URL to the aircraft carrier landing video you mentioned?
Interesting....I just looked at my favorite coffee cup, sitting here on my desk. It’s got a patch emblazoned on it that says, “USS Ronald Reagan - CVN 76”
Fancy that.
A friend of mine from a long time ago was a midshipman at the Academy and sailed on the Eagle three times as a cadet, and after graduation was assigned to the cutter tending her, for a fourth sail with the Eagle.
As you know, the Eagle was built as a training ship for German midshipmen, and requires manpower for everything...no power assists. She has three wheels, and in heavy seas the wheels are maned by one on each side of each wheel. Anchor’s are hoisted by manpower, sails are set and trimmed by sailors in the rigging.
Crossed Lake Huron in 88 on a 54 ft flush deck Motor Yacht with a planeing hull with 20-25 ft following sea,thought my arms were going to fall off by the time we reached the St . Clair river, the only time we ever snuffed the bow was on the Detroit river after the fireworks show after a # of thousands of boats pulled out of the area this was caused from the waves reflecting off the breakwalls from Detroit Mich and Windsor Ont.
Aw man. Those poor girls will probably never get in the water again :(
I apologize....don’t know what happened ;(
http://wn.com/USS_Enterprise_CVN_65_
[Seas are so calm, it looks like a lake] ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 12, 2012) Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 arrive aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) on day 2 of the ship’s final deployment. Enterprise is deploying as part of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the US 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. (US Navy video/Released)
I'm not positive, IIRC, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank due to a rogue wave on Lake Superior. God keep these skippers and crew!
Probably don't keep much food down, either.
From what I saw it depended on rank. I was deck bo’s’n on an Army 143’ tug working out of Okinawa. One of our jobs was to go to the aid of ships in distress – always during a typhoon. My crewmen had fun. Green water over the bridge, 50° rolls in 40 - 50’ seas. The watch would be relieved and the oncoming watch would come to the bridge eating very greasy pork chops. The officers would immediately run outside and ralph.
I HATE the ocean!
Nearest land 2 miles straight down!
Most unsettling
When it gets real bad like that, nobody is feeling real good. Some are outwardly sick, some get queazy, some just get grumpy but it pretty much sucks.
I served aboard a few naval vessels while I was in the Marine Corps. There were some pretty rough seas (especially in the North Atlantic in Spring time).
When I see this I wonder how men from several hundred years ago mustered up the courage to go to sea in ships much smaller than what we have today. Thank God for men like them.
“For Those In Peril,On The Sea”,AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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