Any Shellbacks or Domain of the Golden Dragon Members Here?

[Ventucky Red]

Just curious to ask...

 

[Sac Arrow]

I was Army, wrong person to ask. Pops? Both probably.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Shellback SS Cleveland crossing the Atlantic from Gulf Coast to Mombassa 1999.

 

[Tom J]

Yes, both in 2000/2001.

 

[luvflyin]

I was Army, wrong person to ask. Pops? Both probably.

What’s Pops?

 

[schmookeeg]

His dad I assume.

 

[Daleandee]

What’s Pops?

An orchestra in Boston?

 

[Timbeck2]

Or how the weasels went

 

[bflynn]

Never went south, but King Neptune visited us during a Bluenose trip at Classified Location on Classified Date.

 

[luvflyin]

Never went south, but King Neptune visited us during a Bluenose trip at Classified Location on Classified Date.

Bluenose ??

 

[Rich Holt]

I am also a Bluenose and a Pollywog, which is frustrating given the number of times I've been through the Straits of Malaca. You couldn't deviate 1 degree south? Seriously?

 

[Sac Arrow]

Or how the weasels went

 

[Skyrys62]

What’s Pops?

What comes after Snaps and Crackles?

 

[MauleSkinner]

Bluenose ??

According to Merriam-Webster-Webster

: a person who advocates a rigorous moral code

Somehow. Don’t think that’s the definition being used.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Somehow. Don’t think that’s the definition being used.

Bluenose is someone who has crossed the Arctic Circle.

 

[luvflyin]

Bluenose is someone who has crossed the Arctic Circle.

Ah, that makes sense. What about the Antarctic circle? Bluetoe

 

[Sac Arrow]

Ah, that makes sense. What about the Antarctic circle? Bluetoe

Wouldn't it then follow that the equator should be blueballs?

 

[luvflyin]

Wouldn't it then follow that the equator should be blueballs?

Ok. Let’s do the 45th parallels. Knockers n Knees

 

[Sac Arrow]

Ok. Let’s do the 45th parallels. Knockers n Knees

Scalp and heel for the poles?

 

[Fearless Tower]

Ok. Let’s do the 45th parallels. Knockers n Knees

Knee knockers are indeed a thing on ships, but probably not what you’re thinking.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Scalp and heel for the poles?

That would make the Czechs feel excluded.

 

[luvflyin]

Knee knockers are indeed a thing on ships, but probably not what you’re thinking.

C’mon, don’t make me google it

 

[Fearless Tower]

C’mon, don’t make me google it

On ships with long passageways where you need structural support of a steel bulkhead, but don’t need watertight separation, there will be oval shaped cutouts in the steel bulkhead that you can walk through. But you have to pick up your feet as you do it or you’ll kill your shins on the ‘knee knocker’.

It would probably be more appropriate to call them shin crushers, but tradition is a hard thing to overcome at sea….

 

[Tom J]

I have the bluenose and Order of the Ditch (Panama Canal), as well. Oh, yeah, Plankowner, too. Good times.

Don't miss the knee knockers, or having to go up or down 3 decks to eat or go to bed..........

 

[luvflyin]

Scalp and heel for the poles?

If this comes full circle back to the equator it could be the death of the thread

 

[35 AoA]

Yes, to shellback