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Message: [QUOTE="Erik Wood, post: 313100, member: 138579"] I have spent many a moonlit night on the bridge starring into the dark emptiness in front of me. The ship quiet the men washing decks. The smell of the salt the smell of the ship. That is why I am a Captain I love the sea and the times of quiet peace. I am still known to appear on the bridge at 2 or 3 in the morning in my robe and slippers with my Captains Hat and pipe in mouth and take a peak out side. Stand out on the bridge wing. Most of my deck officers don't like it much but hey I am the Captain and I will do what I want. Sometimes I feel that the older ships especially of the steam have an odd almost ghost like sound and feel to them in the dead of night. On a trip on the old Amsterdamn I recall the peace of night being broken by yelling. As third officer at the time I began to walk down the passageway to attempt to locate and the BAMMM out somebody came and pushed me through the cabin across the hall. The people inside just looked at me as I lie on the floor in a stunned disbelief. The lady got out of her bed and helped me up and offered to make me coffee which to this day makes no sense since she didn't have any coffee to give. I apologized for the intrusion called the maintance team to fix the door and then learned of the fight that had broken out across the hall. Erik [/QUOTE]