Funny Story!

Hey y'all! So Wilson sent me a really long email with a couple of great stories. You ready??

Wilson was going to pull the ship into Algeria last week. The Algerians had given them a map with the depths in their harbor and the ship had passed onto Algeria their "draft" (how deep the ship sits in the water). With this info, the Algerians had told the ship to pull next to this one pier bow-first. As they are headed there, the Algerian "pilot" (read: navigator?) gets "this sick look" on his face and says, This no work. After working through the language barrier, Wilson finds out that the map they had given the ship showed the wrong depths and if they had kept going they would've run aground. Running aground is a HUGE deal!! Anyways, after looking at the info again, they figured out that they needed to pull into another pier, stern-first. They had "tugs" to help with this process, but the tugs couldn't hook up w/ the ship. So basically, Wilson had to back up, pull this huge long ship into a tiny cove and turn it around on a dime, without the use of tugs. Then, he had to back the ship up next to this pier. All with the Captain looking over his shoulder. He said that "I did it, but I shook for 2 hours afterward!" Once it was over though, everyone slapped him on the back and told him that that port had been the hardest one to pull into this whole deployment. The email made it sound like he wanted to collapse after it was all over!

There's another funny story, but it's getting late. I guess you are just going to have to wait!! ;-)