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You forgot two things, Lumber: 1) You may or may not get to use your soft , warm bed everyday; and, 2) There's soup at 10:00 AM.

Much better to call it: Contractor Owned Contractor Operated Oversight: Naval. That gives you COCOON. :)

These are for the most basic training in navigation, bridgemanship (meaning applying rules of the road to situation where you encounter another vessel - handling basic emergencies such as person overboard, fires, steering gear breakdowns, etc) and ship-handling until you built enough confidence...

That's pretty well the way my welding projects usually turn out. That's why I don't weld anymore.

Yes. That turned out well for the last person who tried that.

I was also in Boston when hurricane Bob hit in 1991. We were berthed just forward of her. After we put out the extra hawsers and hurricane hawsers on our own ships (there were two of us), we sent an officer over to offer any extra line handling workforce they may need to her. The offer was...

Those two ships don't move and are kept as museums.

That's how you stay alive. The sea, she wants to kill you .... well, and the helicopter decapitate you given a chance.

See my reply in yellow: No it's not. My wife is the equivalent of the head TDO of the Canadian Space Agency and oversees the training of astronauts and console operators. This is still the way they do proper technical training for adults. Moreover, only 2 years ago, at the UNTD reunion in...

I am sorry, but as far as I am concerned: Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! and Wrong! Well, not quite. I agree that they should be capable of handling moderate sea states. These are tier one training vessels for young officers who are going to sea for the first time more or less on their own on a training...

The "Flower" class idea in the UK was to try and attack the morale of the opponent, not their own morale. :)

Where is the sarcasm icon again ..... Damn! Can't find it. Last thing I want is to cause a mutiny on the West Coast.

Shared by quite a few people, your humble servant included I believe. As Hornblower would put it: "She's not worth the powder!"

Why? Is Oriole the pride of the Canadian side, with a crew and captain well seasoned?

Is that your suggestion for the name of the Orca's replacement class?

The sun was setting in the West; But the Captain's call I must obey; The whole of nature was going for a rest; Yet there was no rest for me. So farewell, farewell ....

The RCN may like overcomplicating things, but trust me, training vessels is one where they really don't. The one I did my training on had the following navigation equipment: one gyro compass, one magnetic compass, a chart table, a sextant, parallel ruler and pencils, together with a single...

What is wrong with them that they need replacement after a mere 20 years? Can't stand to YAG standards? You need to be able to run them for another 30 years! :giggle:

Something like that, or the Spanish Meteoro class, but in both cases with more limited flight deck for UAV's only.

PC-6 is almost nothing. We could do it with the old Gate Vessels.