Where have you been on a boat?

[squib]

Isn't it. Amazing that we forget until we really think about it for awhile. I wonder if anyone has NEVER been on a ferry, or canoe, or kayak.....I guess everyone's been over a bridge at the very least!

 

[Bennettb]

About 60 years ago I used to row down the Chesapeake canal a little way and back near Chesapeake city. Since then I've only been on ferry's.

Bobbi

 

[skimonkey]

I spent a lot of summer days as a kid on a Paddle boat fishing behind my house!!

 

[squib]

About 60 years ago I used to row down the Chesapeake canal a little way and back near Chesapeake city. Since then I've only been on ferry's.

Bobbi

Thanks for sharing that. Were you part of a team?

 

[squib]

I spent a lot of summer days as a kid on a Paddle boat fishing behind my house!!

Where did you live? Oh I would have loved that - except for the fish, the first time I felt a fish catch my line I cried for the pain it must have felt. Never again! But I LOVE sitting by the water!

 

[scifan57]

HOLY SMOKES!! That is a LOT of time on a boat! I lived in a houseboat, does that count? It was on a barge and could be and was towed around the lower mainland of BC
Nothing comparable to you. How many different boats were you on? And please, I would love photos if you have them !!!

Everyone is welcome with their experience, however, wherever,and whatever, even surfers!

All this traveling was done on naval vessels of various types; small patrol boats, naval reserve training vessels, destroyer escorts and large AOR's.

 

[squib]

All this traveling was done on naval vessels of various types; small patrol boats, naval reserve training vessels, destroyer escorts and large AOR's.

Were you in the Canadian Navy? Sorry if I am being redundant. What was the best training you received?

 

[scifan57]

All the naval training was excellent. It included such things as firefighting and flood control, refueling other ships while at sea, specialized trades training and emergency procedures such as man overboard and abandon ship drills. Thankfully in my time in the navy, we only had one man overboard for real. It took us a couple of hours, but we found him alive.

 

[squib]

All the naval training was excellent. It included such things as firefighting and flood control, refueling other ships while at sea, specialized trades training and emergency procedures such as man overboard and abandon ship drills. Thankfully in my time in the navy, we only had one man overboard for real. It took us a couple of hours, but we found him alive.

That is an amazing story! Did you have to participate in an abandon ship drill and if so what was the water like? Was it freezing? Did you wear special gear?

 

[scifan57]

That is an amazing story! Did you have to participate in an abandon ship drill and if so what was the water like? Was it freezing? Did you wear special gear?

We didn't practice jumping off the actual ship unless it was for real. The practicing is done in a swimming pool, where you jump into the water with your clothes on, from a platform as high above the water as the ships deck. We then practiced getting into the life rafts and how to right the life raft if it inflates upside down.

What we did on ship is practice life raft drill, where the general alarm Is sounded and all hands are mustered at their life raft stations. This drill is done without warning at any time of day or night, especially during work ups. This is also what we did if the man overboard alarm was sounded. It's the best way of counting the crew to determine who's missing.

 

[KevinJS]

Just remembered another one. I was in Dover for the weekend a few years ago with not much to do, so I went for a walk along the seafront. I heard the hovercraft coming in. That thing has four Boeing engines sitting on top, and the noise is earth-shattering. "I have to have a ride on that" I thought. So I bought a ticket, and did a round trip to France. Good experience. Those hovercrafts were coming to the end of their working lives, and now I live far away from them, so I'll never get the chance again.

 

[Gabriel1]

I forgot one or two.

The Woolwich Ferry across the River Thames. The Merv Hardy, across the Mackenzie in the NWT. Some CalMac thing from the mainland of Scotland to Skye.

OK, three.

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Just remembered another one. I was in Dover for the weekend a few years ago with not much to do, so I went for a walk along the seafront. I heard the hovercraft coming in. That thing has four Boeing engines sitting on top, and the noise is earth-shattering. "I have to have a ride on that" I thought. So I bought a ticket, and did a round trip to France. Good experience. Those hovercrafts were coming to the end of their working lives, and now I live far away from them, so I'll never get the chance again.

I did the Woolwich ferry twice a day for two years, the queues could be painful, two hours to go 50yards wasn't unheard of but at least it was free.

I also went on the hovercraft at Dover on a school trip, it was a little rough, not enough to stop it running but boy, a hovercraft when it's rough is no fun at all!

The Archangel

 

[J. A.]

I'm taking a ferry a few times of the year across Lake Neusiedl, had a few boat trips "around" the lake.

Also had 2 or 3 boat trips on the Danube river, especially through Wachau valley.

It's nothing, compared to the other posts, but since everything is allowed, I thought I might add this one.

 

[dianne137]

My best ride was in a 50 sail craft that my friend built.We met up on Quadra Island and sailed north to Desolation Sound.It was Sept and everyone else was headed south. we had the whole place to our selves for 10 days.

 

[lizzieh]

We've had sail boats since the 80's, now have a motor cruiser. I like anything nautical.

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