Hi guys
I'm killing time as I'm standing watch. I have to stand by just in case we have to man up to lower the boat for boarding. I'm using this time to record all my Rock disks into my computer. I have two more to go, unfortunately one of them is blank so I have only one. It's the sermon, Jesus and the Law for March 30th.
While we're out here with the Aussies and the Italian we're sending people back and forth to spend time with the other ships to see how they live. BM3 Boyd just came back and we sent BM3 Burch over today. Boyd said that the Aussies didn't have any beer aboard. He said he went to the chiefs mess and they told him that if wanted a brew he could sign one out in his name. 'Brew' to him meant beer so he went straight to the mess decks to get his brew. Turned out that beer in Aussie meant coffee. Burch spent his day giving tours to the Aussies that came over to the Princeton. They watched flight quarters from the LSO shack, and came out afterwards to discuss how my signals differed from theirs. Not by much they just tell the riggers what to do before sending them in. We want the chains and chocks to be removed at the same time as the other side we send them out and THEN tell them to remove chains. They didn't get to see the pilots signal to me so they thought that I didn't wait on the pilots to give permission to send people over the murder line. Lastly they wait on the pilots order the chocks and chains removed, then signal the HCO, then send the runners in. I wait until either Amber, or a green deck, then I wait on the pilots go, and then send the runners in. Other than that it was the same all around.
Other than entertaining guests, launching the helo, and lowering the boat, we're still doing the same as always ( cutting holes in the water). We did have a wonderful unrep today. It was VERTREP only, in the middle of our unrep two fishing boat crossed in front of us. the USNS saw them first and blew 3 blasts. Don't really know why they needed to tell the fishing boats that we were operating under astern propulsion, instead of giving them 5 short blast for Danger or Doubt. I don't even think the fishing boats knew what whistle signal they were hearing. They probably got their Capt. License by buying their boats. Eventually we had to change course.
Well fun fun fun fun but I got to run, and wake my relief that is. I'll write y'all later.


Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. -Psalm 62:8