All the while the steel is creaking, popping and moaning as the ship flexes.
Yep, even though ‘dumb’ etc deep in your mind you just know that sucker is going to tear itself apart BUT far be it to be the one to ‘flinch’.
I was lucky, got my ‘sea legs’ early and never had a problem with rough seas.
‘The Cruel Sea’ was aptly named.
OTOH, the sunsets and sunrises at sea were ‘indescribable’ to those that had never witnessed one.
Try to describe one to a novice and I find myself NOT believing the majesty of it....
FWFS