Pick and Whisks

[davec2]

William,

Use what space you have .....and with glee!  Room aboard a war ship is as rare a commodity as good weather.  In the 1700's, Dr. Samuel Johnson said, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."   I think he also went on to say that, being in jail, one usually has better food and better company.   I am sure that RWood can confirm.

Dave C

[RWood]

I'll agree with with the first part of the quote Dave, but I never met better people. It wasn't the seventeen hunreds either! The food this another story, but alot better then MRE's
 Ron

[davec2]

Ron,

I agree with you..the best people I have ever had the good fortune to work with.  Many of them were characters in the extreme, of one sort or another, but I'd sail straight into $#*! with any of them to a man.  I was known amongst my shipmates as a man who would tie a bowline in the Devil's tail just for a laugh.  My comment was made in jest.

All the best.

Dave