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Originally posted by MastersMate:
My chief engineer had a thought about that, on more than one occasion he'd remark something like, " You clowns up in the pilothouse get within a quarter mile of where you think you want to be, and you're patting each other on the back for a week. We in the engineroom, deal in thousandths of an inch on a daily basis, and think nothing about it."

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Originally posted by Seagull1965:
Sailors may come
Sailors may go
Tis the engineer below
That makes it Suck, Push, Bang, and Blow

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Originally posted by MastersMate:
My chief engineer had a thought about that, on more than one occasion he'd remark something like, " You clowns up in the pilothouse get within a quarter mile of where you think you want to be, and you're patting each other on the back for a week. We in the engineroom, deal in thousandths of an inch on a daily basis, and think nothing about it."

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Originally posted by MastersMate:
DaveMK212

You may certainly keep that comment alive.

BUT
The another comment that we used, and on occasion would remind our engineering bretheren, of another seagoing tradition.

Aboard the lightships, it was the 04-08 deck watch that would turn on the galley range in the AM in preparation of the cooks arrival. This was a throwback to the older days of coal fired stoves. It was a deck Seaman responsibility to stoke the stove, because they believed that the Fireman was incapable of making the connection between coal and fire, once he got above the level of the waterline.