Curious

[PappyCain]

I am curious, who is playing this great sim who may have bluewater experience? Thanks in advance!!

[Sailor Steve]

Well...

[Sag75]

I was a pedalo driver!


i'm kidding, I sailed just a bit.. than the life carried me far away from the water..

[von Kinderei]

I got a 14' Jon Boat with a trolling motor

[meduza]

I've spent 8 months as a gunner on a small patrol craft.

[andym]

I was a Royal Naval Medical Assistant for nearly 9 years,however the only time i went onboard a Naval vessel was a days visit to HMS Hermes and a day spent doing advanced casualty handling on the Harbour Training ships Diamond and Russell.
So i probs dont qualify as a "Blue water" person,but i did do several patrols on the Isle of Wight Ferry.

[HuskerNlincoln]

So being that we are a dead center of the US and completely land locked, I am Captian and Vice Admiral of the all Volunteer First Fleet of Nebraska, whose primary responsiblity is to protect all corn fields from Russian Submarine attack, and of course to perform all physicals on the female enlisted!

Actually I have seen the ocean a total of maybe 10 times, and have piloted a boat maybe 5 times.

SO naturally I'm qualified to be Vice Admiral!

[Jimbuna]

Two years in the British Merchant Navy.

[nirwana]

I was an E7 in the german navy but i spied on the sowjet and polish baltic fleets during the cold war in coastal installations. The only warship i ever entered was an old carrier in san diego waiting for demoliting.

[Sailor Steve]

You've probably heard me say this before, but the thing I miss most about living by the sea and being in the navy is the ambience of harbor life. As a boy I spent a lot of time hanging out at King Harbor, Redondo Beach, Cantafordya, just watching the boats come and go.

In SH3 I never use time compression when starting out or returning from a patrol, just because I like to watch the ships and listen to the seagulls and daydream. That's why I like testing mods out - it lets me cruise around without all that nasty messy sinking and killing and stuff.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Two years in the British Merchant Navy.

Now there's something I did not know about you, my friend. That's something we'll have to talk about.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You've probably heard me say this before, but the thing I miss most about living by the sea and being in the navy is the ambience of harbor life. As a boy I spent a lot of time hanging out at King Harbor, Redondo Beach, Cantafordya, just watching the boats come and go.

In SH3 I never use time compression when starting out or returning from a patrol, just because I like to watch the ships and listen to the seagulls and daydream. That's why I like testing mods out - it lets me cruise around without all that nasty messy sinking and killing and stuff.

Now there's something I did not know about you, my friend. That's something we'll have to talk about.

Yep 77/78 Marine Engineer, MV Cedarbank.....loook forward to it.

http://www.johnbage.pwp.blueyonder.c...ry%20Ships.htm

[_Seth_]

Some sailing in a small dinghy when i was young.... Today i am the proud "skipper" of a kayak, named "SÏKU"...(Named after one of the inuit words for "sea-ice" or drifting ice...)
Here's a pic from a trip i took on Thursday this week;

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That's why I like testing mods out - it lets me cruise around without all that nasty messy sinking and killing and stuff.

Not if you're testing out damage and sensor mods!

/shudders at the thought of the "bomb-rinse-repeat" cycle I went through when helping develop RUb in the summer of 2005

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Back to topic - nope, not me. I grew up at the far corner of the Baltic sea (where it's not really that much of a sea...), and the only way I've seen the open ocean so far was from 30,000ft above it. :hmm:

[PappyCain]

TWR - Torpedo Weapons Recovery Vessel, then Offshore Dive Support Vessels
http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/autec/

[ridgewayranger]

18 years Royal Navy, Destroyers and Submarines.
Happy Days!
RR