No more drunken sailors

[capnsensible]

I joined in 87 and was sure I had never sworn an oath to anyone, people kept saying I must have but this sort of goes to explain why I hadn't.

Nor me. But new entry training did involve quite a bit of being sworn at.....

In other news, Fred Kite is dead.

 

[justanothersailboat]

...The Navy make up for their sober habits at sea by keeping well up to old traditions when in port.

Drinking in port is entirely logical. You go to sea, you lose your land-legs and gain sea-legs. Back on land, this is inconvenient. The only way to reset the cycle is to get legless.

As for our ancestors, the "three-bottle men" of the eighteenth century who could routinely put away three bottles of port in a single sitting must stand head and shoulders above them all, if perhaps not for very long. And they were landsmen. Puts naval drinking of any era into perspective.

 

[capnsensible]

 

[jamie N]

My Father was fortunate enough to be invited for breakfast with Killick Stoker's on the 'Ark' one time.

 

[S04]

The first stage of recovery is to admit you were a skimmer.

I spent a year on a destroyer.

While we're in confessional mode, Forgive me Father for I have skimmed.

I was in Ark Royal for a year in 71/72.