Hi Again.
Every Ship has a special chair for the " Old Man" right ?
That is sick… in a very neat way!
What scale it that?
Ben
Hi;
Well, Ben this from a 1/96 scale model of the U.S.S.Kidd. I added all those little chotskes to make my client happy. The captain’s chair has a backrest and seat made of thin painted foam. I wish I had taken photos of the MotorWhaleBoat. I have the canopy on it with one of the flaps open and an officer’s hat sitting on the bench seat. It’s packed for shipping, now though. The rudder has Gudgeons and Pintles so it can be removed.
WOW!!! Got any pics of the completed ship?
Jim [cptn]
Stay Safe.
Typically, two, P&S, and the Windward one, by long standing Tradition is the COs
Hi Jim;
Sorry to say. You will get parts and pieces. The whole ship was NEVER completed due to many health issues all at once. Don’t get T-Boned in your Auto and Have Open heart surgery ( Emergency) the next day. I tried though and just couldn’t go on. Since those two days I spend about an hour or two at the bench. I get to shaking so badly I have to stop. I guess it’s all the meds.
Wishes for great progress Tanker. I had chemo and four years of meds…the side effects gradually disappeared so don’t give up. And save those models, you will want them later on.
Discuss the side effects with your doc. He may be able to adjust or exchange.
All three of the ships I served on designated the chair on the stbd side as the Captain’s chair. On a quiet midwatch, a sleepy OOD may momentarily lean on it, and a stupid OOD would sit in it. [:)]
Rick
On the ship I was on there were two. One on each of the port and starboard bridge wings. I spent a lot of time on the bridge and I never saw anyone sitting in them except the Captain and he didn’t do it very often.
Surface-Line;
What was funny was watching from the Engine Telegraph when the Captain would walk up behind the chair and say "Good Morning " to the O.D. Asleep in the chair ! Those two were a year apart at the Academy and married Sisters!
The Telegraph, according to the Captain could ONLY on “His Ship” be manned by someone in Damage Control. I guess it was because the reaction time or something about the Sound Powered phone connection?
Oh, The Captain and the X.O would come and play baseball in the Enlisted field
I forgot - on each side there was a chair on the bridge wing and one inside the pilothouse/bridge. For UNREP, the CO would sit in his chair on the bridgewing. (I have no idea how the chair was cared for in really crappy weather. Some things we just blank out, I guess.)
I recall one particular CO I had . . . We wanted to give him a chair out on the bridge wing, with the only caviat being that it should made by Martin-Baker or Escapac.