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Kafka BC · 05-05-10, 01:57 PM

Those piping diagrams bring back bad memories of when I was a marine engineering cadet in 1982.

During my month long work term aboard the Imperial St. Clair, a tanker, I had to trace and draw the entire piping system of the ship as part of my training program. It was hard following the convoluted jumble they became at times while working twelve hour shifts (mostly as a wiper and lackey - the mop became a good friend), trying to catch sleep...and being seasick. The Chief Engineer finally lent me the blueprints of the ship so that I could finish...god bless him.

Bad memories and all, I'll take 'em if you got 'em. They are a treasure.

05-05-10, 01:57 PM	#18
Kafka BC Planesman Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 197 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	Those piping diagrams bring back bad memories of when I was a marine engineering cadet in 1982. During my month long work term aboard the Imperial St. Clair, a tanker, I had to trace and draw the entire piping system of the ship as part of my training program. It was hard following the convoluted jumble they became at times while working twelve hour shifts (mostly as a wiper and lackey - the mop became a good friend), trying to catch sleep...and being seasick. The Chief Engineer finally lent me the blueprints of the ship so that I could finish...god bless him. Bad memories and all, I'll take 'em if you got 'em. They are a treasure. __________________ Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea. - Stan Rogers (1949-1983) Last edited by Kafka BC; 05-05-10 at 04:13 PM.