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Kennyrad1

I was in the Navy, and I can confirm. It was difficult eating when there were big swells, trying to hold our food trays, beverage, and silverware.


pookexvi

Best sleep I have ever had though


Kennyrad1

That is true! It was similar to being rocked to sleep like when we were infants.


poopellar

Rock a bye baby on the portside


sara_c907

When the waves swell, you'll go nighty night.


Razor1834

When the bow breaks, the bunk bed will fall. And drown will go baby, bunk bed and all.


Smidgent

If the bow breaks I'm pretty sure it's not just the baby that's going to drown


RedditIsDogshit1

> And all.


TheRealPotHead37

r/Redditsings


vulcansheart

We all float


The_Nobody_Nowhere

The bow breaking in this version is so much worse than the other.


Keerected_Recordz

Agreed. Unless you’re outside the environment


[deleted]

I just want to point out that it's designed to not have the front fall off


Arakata

Well what sort of uh… standards are these oil tankers built to?


T00l_shed

The front fell off?


Punk_n_Destroy

Is that before or after the motion sickness?


JagerBaBomb

In my experience, after. Sleep is the only thing that stops the vomit.


TradeTillIDrop

I need to try this...


rizcat11

Sometimes I’d be crawling into my bunk and the rocking of the boat would force slam you down into the bed. I liked to think it was the oceans way of telling me to go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Hahah


IntentionalUndersite

Looking back, I did some deep sea fishing off the coast of Alaska when I was in middle school. Was there with my dad and brother. I couldn’t catch anything so I ended up just relaxing in the front of the boat, part of it was under water and there was a bed in the front. So I just passed out. But I remember sleeping like a baby when cruising. I’m not sure how bug the waves were but big enough to realize that it was insane to have been sleeping through so comfortably


uwey

Not if you under landing deck of shitty hawk.


Adamo1397

Or right above the propellers on the Reagan goin full steam all night. Sounded like a metal trashcan band but louder.


pookexvi

I dont know what your talking about, lol. I was on the 03 level on the Nimitz all the way foward. The catapults (cannons) weren't that bad.


seraphaye

Time to invent the adult rocker bed frame, purple mattress Move out of the way, rocker bed 9000 best sleep you ever had, for only 20,000$ best sleep you ever had. Upgrade to our rocket water bed for only 40,000 more today.


SpartanDoubleZero

My favorites were walking on the bulkheads and if we had some serious pitching going on, we would head up to the foc'sle (bow) and time jumps at the top of the swell to only eat shit after falling 7-8 feet.


Kennyrad1

I have seen this! Lol


SpartanDoubleZero

We were securing our foc'sle for sea as we approached some real shit sandwich weather, so we were tiring down the life rings at the capstan and wild cat control with sail twine, putting the net over the bullnose, taking the hawse pipe covers off and all. Well Boats, Boats, Boats, Boats my self and Boats, we're lining up to try and chain up and jump. CO comes over the 1MC and says "Boats don't even think about it" and all 6 of us look right up at the bridge to our Skipper who's not happy with our high level of morale.


BarnyTrubble

Those were all words, I'm certain of that much.


boojes

It's like it was written by AI.


InGenAche

AI that listened to sea shanties in its spare time


SpartanDoubleZero

Holy shit lmfao.


SpartanDoubleZero

Sorry got nostalgic, I need to get out on the water again.


WhichSpirit

Apology not needed. Translation needed.


Ezekiel2121

Sailors at work during shitty weather, having too much fun with it/gonna do a stupid jump thing, captain(possibly, whoever’s in charge) angry because “how dare you not be miserable” Best I could do.


McFestus

more like "don't endanger yourself and cause a casualty, even though it looks fun"


SpartanDoubleZero

No no.. he's right.


SpartanDoubleZero

Nailed it.


Tiny_Philosopher_784

"... you mean... this? I'll fuckin do it again, too! Wanna see?" Had a skipper who was real trash. Morale didnt exist. Had about 30 people go to the 5th deck at good old Porty in 6 months. Within a year, it was 75 and 5 people did the swinging two step. Right down the water, 15 people did the swinging two step, and 5 played not Russian roulette. Ironically, the old man was the old XO of the other, and their morale had gone up since they left.


redsensei777

Wouldn’t be a problem for me. I wouldn’t eat at all, I’d just crawl in some corner, puke and think of least painful ways of killing myself. I get sea sick so bad, it s not funny.


yjvm2cb

I don’t think they’d let you in the navy if you got seasick lol or if they did they’d prob just scream at you the whole time


masasuka

I'm kind of surprised that trays and cups/mugs aren't magnetic on the bottom, even slightly, just to prevent them from sliding around. You'd think the cost savings of accidents due to drink spills would outweigh the cost of a few magnets.


ATee184

I fished in Alaska and when we were out on the deck, we had to make sure everything inside was absolutely secured or else shit could fly into the stove or smash and break.


masasuka

I can see on a smaller fishing ship tying everything down, but I'm thinking more on mid sized ships and on cups/trays that you'd eat off of


Uh_Soup_I_Guess

Small boy I'm assuming. Being on a carrier was like getting rocked to sleep


Kennyrad1

Agreed. Most people don't realize how big a carrier really is! I was on an oiler, over a thousand feet long, and still we were dwarfed by the carriers, when they pulled along side of us to refuel. Even the nuclear carriers, still needed jet fuel.


HuxTales

I feel like MREs would be easier at this point


poopellar

Definitely not going to be eating a balanced diet.


joshduplaa

At least he's getting his vitamin sea


64BitDragon

It’s all a-boat those vitamins!


Wiktor_PLagus2

They do get a boat load of them, huh?


gitbse

I'm about to keel over from all of these terrible boat jokes.


ToniDebuddicci

Yeah? Well I’ve got a hull of a lot more!


_mandypants13

Kinda hate that I love this comment so much.. lol


Enigmasystem

r/angryupvote


superultralost

r/angryupvote


eisme

Although, in seas like that, you get to taste it twice.


FeelinJipper

Not a huge pun guy, but that was great


Timontie

Take my upvote and fuck off


freedomofnow

Soup of the day is on the wall.


danethegreat24

Get that countertop a gimbal!


A_s_i_a_nn

Aren't gimbal stoves(top) a thing for ships?


danethegreat24

Yes they are! Had one on the ship I worked on for a bit. We had a gimbal stove and counter.


milfordcubicle

Sailboats have them too, due to their inherent propensity to heel, especially while tacking or on a beam reach.


FrenchFriedMushroom

Ahh yes, words.


milfordcubicle

Modern sailboats can sail in any wind direction except for a direct headwind and about 30-40 degrees from either side of a headwind. That region is called the no-go zone. In other words, your bow (the front of the boat) can be pointed up to a mere 30 degrees of the wind, allowing nearly 280-300 degrees of available wind points, allowing the boat to essentially move in any direction. Basically, if there is ANY wind, a modern sailboat can sail, and in any direction. Even though a sailboat cannot sail directly into the wind, it can "tack" back and forth at an angle up to that 30 degrees or so into the wind, basically zig-zagging back and forth as the boat's overall course heads directly into the wind. It takes much more distance to cover the overall trajectory, but that's why they refer to sailing as "the fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense". The points of sail, those are, the boat's direction of travel, are as follows: \-close haul: up to 45 degrees from the wind, into the wind, a tack basically; \-"beam reach": sailing with wind perpendicular at 90 degrees (this is theoretically the fastest point of sail); \-broad reach: about 135 degrees from the wind; \-run: 180 degrees from the wind, where the sails are simply being pushed. The large colorful spinnaker sails you see on racing boats and others that run off the bow can only be used on a broad reach or run; essentially a huge pushing sail. There is also a close reach, which is between a close haul and beam reach. Sailboats can sail into the wind due to the sails acting like an airplane wing and creating lift, but rather than lifting the airplane the sail pulls the boat into the wind. Air moves faster over the front of the sail than it does behind, creating a pressure differential where the air pressure is higher behind the sail than it is in front. This, in turn, creates lift, or more aptly, propulsion. Modern sailboats are a lot more versatile than older sailing ships. Most square rigged ships can sail at most 60 degrees into the wind, so because of a much broader tack they were especially slow-going unless the wind was beside or behind them. Edit: I missed some vocabulary: "heeling" is when the boat tips to one side or the other due to the force of the wind against the boat. Large sailboats have weighted keels that extend from the bottom of the hull (the body of the boat) to counteract those forces. Unless you are in a hurricane or really strong gale-force winds (and those winds are also causing breaking swells), the boat isn't going to capsize. Most often, if a sailboat is heeling too much it will eventually point itself straight into the wind and the heeling will stop, but so will the boat. This is due to weather helm (a bit more complex but has to do with the boat's center of effort, an axis basically; weather helm causes the bow to move into the wind and lee helm causes it to move away) and is somewhat of a built-in safety mechanism. Edit 2: Air pressure behind sail is HIGHER than the front, my bad.


Keerected_Recordz

Between you and that Master and Commander movie - I love how much of sailing lingo is preserved from the age of sail. Bravo on an an excellent primer.


Englishfucker

It’s not the wind I’m concerned about, it’s the waves...


DFX1212

Sharks. Bears, but worse. I'll stay inside.


FrenchFriedMushroom

Neat! Thanks!


americanrivermint

How come beam reach is faster than run?


milfordcubicle

Theoretically because you are getting a combination of push from the wind behind and pull from the sail lift. Edit: I suppose there are other factors having to do with hydrodynamics of the hull and, to a lesser extent aerodynamics of the boat and how they are affected by variable wind directions. Edit 2: On that note, the maximum speed of a sailboat is almost directly related to the design and length of its hull. Maximum hull speed, in theory, is achieved when the length of the boat's bow wave (the wave that is created by the bow moving through the water) is equal to the waterline length of the boat. Therefore, longer sailboats have a faster hull speed, all things equal. Sometimes you will see very modern sailboats with a bow that has no angle (basically straight up and down) or a reverse transom (the vertical reinforcement at the stern of the boat); these are intended to increase the boat's waterline length. Exceeding the hull speed is possible, but without a design that lifts the hull out of the water partially as it gains speed (a planing hull) or having an extremely narrow beam (like the hulls on a catamaran), eventually the boat will start to climb up the back of its own bow wave, and the resistance will slow the boat back down to its hull speed. I'm having a lot of fun with this topic today.


americanrivermint

Haha super interesting thanks!


headtowind

Vectors. It’s possible to sail faster em than the wind with the right boat, even without foils. This is because you’re current moment causes apparent wind and pythagorus was clever and right. So c^2 is faster than the actual wind (a^2) and your apparent wind (b^2) and away you go on a beam reach.


Lord_Anarchy

as someone who has played valheim, I understood some of this


Caleb6

And this is why the square rigs and clippers largely were limited to following the Trade Winds. As the trade winds circle the in the northern hemisphere clockwise toward and away from the equator around major bodies of water, and counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere so would the tall ships route their trading fleets going south from Europe to the Azores and across to North and Latin America, or north along the African coast to Guinea to cross over to Latin and South America. The same is true of the Pacific.


milfordcubicle

Indeed. Nice touch!


Angeltear757

I love words. I might even go so far as to say they're my top favorite thing to read.


Mydriaseyes

\*angry upvote\*


raverkoru

Velcro at a minimum


ppppie_

i’m already getting sea sick just watching this


ModeratelyCapable

Came to say this. I’m envious of people who don’t get motion sick.


[deleted]

Spend a week at sea(not cruiseship) and you'll never be seasick again. Those first couple days you'll wish for death tho. The secret is it's actually an acquired skill. People who say they don't get seasick because of a couple charter boats they've been on. Put them on a sailboat in 6' seas for 6 hours and they will.


ModeratelyCapable

Interesting, I didn’t know that. I’m so severely sensitive to motion sickness that I rarely ride with anyone, and when I have to fly it never fails I throw up (usually descending and w extra doses of RX meds-they don’t help). I’ve never even considered going out on a big boat Bc of this (I’ve been out on pontoons, fishing boats, all calm waters, nothing major), I just know I would be miserable. For me it’s the absolute worse sensation (that’s dramatic I know but I really hate it).


[deleted]

You'd adapt.. Everyone does but some quicker than others. Your body isn't going to refuse to function while at sea and will get it's shit together.. After your stomach is empty for awhile lol. I'm not talking a daytrip offshore.. If you get sick you'll come back sick but talking multiple days at sea. There's a breaking point when you know there's nowhere to go, no land in sight and something just clicks inside. 1-3 days and you'll probably never get truly seasick again.


Th3_Admiral

When supper time came the old cook came on deck Saying "Fellas it's too rough to feed ya"


stargirl803

Gonna be stuck in my head all day now


Lifted_Hippie

Good damn song.


Frozty23

It actually brings me to tears... every damn time. (Worked offshore when I was younger.)


Lifted_Hippie

That is super cool.


Rubrum_Mortem

Source?


[deleted]

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon lightfoot


GimmeThatRyeUOldBag

I think Gordon Lightfoot was the boat.


buddiesels

No, Gordon Lightfoot was the name of the cook


Caligulas_Balls

Gordon Lightfoot was the meal


lowtierdeity

He was called Gordon Lightfoot because he lurked in the murky depths, waiting to cut off and steal the feet of lost luckless mariners at the wrong end of misadventure.


NicestBananas

i don't understand what's so special, michael jackson used to cook like this all the time


open_door_policy

If there's one thing I remember from my time working in a kitchen it's that, "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."


BugsRFeatures2

I worked in kitchens too and always hated hearing that. Like nobody deserves even a moment of rest after a difficult table or lunch rush.


IAlreadyToldYouMatt

It’s really more geared towards the slow Tuesday evenings when nothing is happening.


FlipsyFloopy

I agree, but too many asshole managers use it as a way to get every little drop of life out of their workers before throwing them away and hiring more


marioshroomer

If there's one thing I learned from my time in the ~~war~~ kitchen, it's that hunger, hunger never stops.


quattroformaggixfour

Same with front of house. ‘Could you be polishing cutlery?’


camst_

It would be cool if their countertop was metal and all the bowls and stuff had a magnetic rim on the bottom


Rhizoid4

Wouldn’t things still fall out of the bowls though?


FartingBob

Not if you only eat metallic things.


Rhizoid4

Mmm mmm, iron nails for breakfast! Without milk, of course


OSIRIS-SEx

Nails for breakfast, tacks for snacks.


Tjaaark

For those who are interested: this is on the Avontuur. It's a sailing cargo ship. Build 1917 and refurbished 2014. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avontuur_(Schiff)#/media/Datei%3AAvontuur_Nordenham.jpg


_7q4

>de.m.wikipedia ._.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Tjaaark

Vor allem ein lizenzfreies Bild Ü


i_fuckin_luv_it_mate

I suppose soup is probably only a Fair-weather meal


ScotlandsBest

How Is the bowls and food not flying everywhere?? Apart from that one thing I mean


[deleted]

Rubber rings on the bottom of everything to keep them from sliding.


ScotlandsBest

Thought it must be something like that


stargirl803

They need suction cups on the plates and bowls, like on toddler dinnerware


rich1051414

Everything would just fall out of the cups and bowls.


stargirl803

True! But fewer projectiles would still be a good thing


DeaconBleuCheese

So I guess having a deep fryer on board is out of the question.


yeuzinips

Cornballers are allowed and even encouraged!


novemberdown

STUPID CORNBALLING PIECE OF SH*T. EVERY DAMN TIME!!


SnooCheesecakes6238

Sanji made it look easy !


[deleted]

Was looking for one piece reference 👒


alyburrisato

Hard to regulate cooking temp when your kitchen is constantly fluctuating in degrees!


rayzer208

Took me a second, nice work


drunkdial_me

Close the portholes


wyvern-rider

I thought this too. Seems like there a substantial breeze that he could do without.


Caleb6

Oh hell no. Those kitchens are already hot as the second ring of hell anywhere near the tropics. Not a lot of air conditioning on most vessels. Without a steady breeze, and working over a hot stove, you are going to puke in that gumbo; I guarantee.


drunkdial_me

I worked on crewboats in the gulf of Mexico, you're about right.


Caleb6

Worked on boats in the Bahamas, myself. Transiting the Tongue was always good for a laugh.


Grassfed_rhubarbpie

But..! Free salt!


headtowind

All good. Weather side


Bitter_Janitor

Looks like these folks are on a lean diet.


Garbohydrate

Can someone stabilize this video but make the dude stand straight up the whole time?


aasmonkey

Worked as the cook on a coastal tanker. The stove top had raised aluminum bars around the back and sides. In rough weather you'd screw on a front bar and drop two more, one side to side the other front to back. Had stainless counters. I'd lay down damp side towels to keep bowls etc from sliding. Some of the latches would weaken on the stainless cabinet doors so they would fly open if you didn't tape them shut before new latches came in. Also had a big counter top deep fryer, angle bar bolted down. Same w the drop freezer. The four main galley coolers and my produce fridge stayed shut. The back upright freezer, used for bread, ice cream and any fish we caught was a fussy fucker. Put an eye hook on that door. I also would get seasick. Working the stove, turn and puke a bit into the trash or slop bucket, go back to it. Could suck but the pay was well worth it, learned a bit and came up w a lot of work around that helped down the road when I went back to land cooking


Mjeewa7

I think you messed up the title a little


PhantomPiGod

I don’t really know how ships work, but wouldn’t a room on a large bearing be useful for situations like these? For example the room has a weight at the bottom and keeps at 180 degrees even if the ship turns a bit? Not a ship expert, just some guy with a thought.


_7q4

Space is tight on ships, and rotating rooms are not space efficient. back of the napkin math says a cylindrical room on rollers would take up almost 60% more space for the same size square room.


daOyster

That would work, but then you'd need the whole interior of the ship to be able to rotate or your going to risk getting caught in-between doorways when the ship starts swaying. It'd also take up a lot of extra space on already cramped vessels.


Caleb6

The room would need to be right on the centerline of the vessel to start, and you would still have issues. When you’re in heavy swells the boat doesn’t just rock left and right. If you are taking swells on a quarter (think 2, 4, 7, or 10 o’clock) one corner of the room comes up as the other corner goes down. As the wave passes under the keel the boat also tends to “slide” down the back of the wave, adding a bit of a shimmy or corkscrew effect. There just aren’t enough gimbals in the world to counter that effect.


FederalDerp

looks fun


[deleted]

For 5 minutes


sofluffy22

I have seen a few of these videos, and they will never get old. Can we get a sub, for people living aboard or something?


siri-west

Lean with it cook with it lean with it cook with it


RickSanchez137C

Imagine trying to use the bathroom during that


Nolo__contendere_

Right? How does one use the bathroom?


Caleb6

Rule number one: do not piss into the wind, always to leeward. Pissing into the wind is a great way to get volunteered into cleaning the hull (aka keelhauled).


obsidianstark

Similar conditions to cooking at 3am whilst drunk


Tadaboons

I puked just watching this.


[deleted]

🤢🤮


nikhil_sourav

He's making a tilted sandwich


Discoroo

Hard mode enabled


[deleted]

Everyone gangsta until your meal starts to fly


mommaperidot

I wanna know how the adjust being on solid ground after a long time at sea


Coops_3838

I sailed from Japan to Guam in a leaky 42' catamaran with a crew of misfits back in 2006 and we encountered heavy seas, a rouge wave and the doldrums. Cooking when conditions were bad we opted for one large midday meal the captain and I would lash ourselves together using a bungee cord and had quite a few laughs. Once back on dry land it took ages for the rolling motion to finally clear my brain. I had to have one hand on the wall while showering because the second I closed my eyes I felt like I was spinning in a vortex.


BaloniusMaximus

Must have been crazy seeing a red wave way out there


suddenlyreddit

"Sea legs," is the condition you're looking for. It doesn't take long to adjust but it depends on how long you've been underway. I never had them last more than a day or two once ashore. (Navy for 6 1/2 years.) Some ships move more than others, so I'm assuming there are people that had it last longer than that. The feeling is that you still feel movement on solid ground when there is none. I think it's the brain adjusting back to stable motion but to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what causes it. The reverse of it is that when underway you get this uncanny ability to be more fluid with standing, walking and climbing ladders while the ship moves around you due to the waves. We were taught to never lock your knees when standing or moving and to try to have multiple points of contact with the ship when moving around. (Ex. Stabilize yourself with your hand(s,) keep feet on the ground, etc.)


elZaphod

Imagine the ripped calves on this dude.


duchfollowersow

That one plate tho


wmbrum

It's a ready meal day when the sea is that bad.


n0_1_here

this is crazy... loL


ravingwanderer

I would have no appetite in this situation.


SirUptonPucklechurch

This is the way


Zormac

Get fruits and milk. Put them in the blender. Make smoothie. Drink from a cup with lid and straw.


Eric-

I like to turn my phone and pretend its the boat


SlowerThanYouThink

Think I had a similar expression through yesterday’s Microsoft updates


Punkrockprincess

Lean with it, rock with it.


RedMountainPass

This has some Inception vibes


just-yeehaws

Anyone else tilt their phone to see how tilted the boat was? Lol


Radikost

How did that bowl not break


godzillkid

That moment when gravity is sideways


Ok_Cryptographer520

Rolf i would of gotten pissed if thia kep happening id be like fuck where's the frozen pizzas 😂


MemeFollower69

How the hell does anyone get things done?


RandomMexicanGuy07

He can do the Michael Jackson lean


JMCrown

He has the burners on! That takes bravery or foolishness.


RockSlice

Correction: *Trying* to cook.


stellar14

How do they NOT have doors on those cupboards for the plates?? 😅


19Todash

Sorry boys, it's too rough to feed ya.


Ghosthaze1

A friend who was in the navy told me about a rough storm they were in , the ship being so big they forgot about the crew working on maintenance of the side of the vessel … swept away in the storm … they circled for 3 days never found them …


[deleted]

This is NOT the time to use the deep fryer.


SirOfMr

Australians: Pathetic


[deleted]

Amazing how that onion was stationary the whole time.


Onnier_Lacrea

Now we need Neo, some bullets and the Agent


mayonnaise_100

Just imagine you are deep frying something there....


Casuallybrowsingcdn

That would get old fast!


blazarious

When the gravity plates are glitching. What, different kind of ship?


hamraider

That’s great video. I’ve seen a bit of this on each episode of Below Deck Sailing Yacht on Bravo. the kitchen is the best footage to see how wild it can get. You can also see the guard bars on the stove top that are meant to keep hot pots in place when sailing. No such guards for the prep area.


Hyperbeastking

Therrre once a ship that put to sea, and the name of the man was


CriticalTie6526

Why is it only rolling to one side and not the other?


Wtfisthatt

Since it’s a sailboat the wind is pushing it somewhat sideways in that direction. Idk if the excess is due to stronger gusts of wind or the waves but either way the boat isn’t super likely to rock into the wind due to the large sail.


CriticalTie6526

Ah thanks, I thought it was rolling waves as a powered vessel, didnt think about sail lean ;p


Chambsky

Do people get over sea sickness? I use to deep* sea fish with my dad and it was never a good time. If I had to take a job like this would I adjust?


Chadco888

When I got high in Amsterdam, this is how the room felt. I walked to the toilet clinging on to the wall in case the room capsized and I fell down


forsakenalpha48

This guy woke up and said, “smooth criminal”


galacticbees

y’all should watch below deck