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This page clockwise from top: The ramp goes down, and port time begins. Coming into Hong Kong. A young salesman in Sri Lanka offers you special price ... Ray Lipinski grins as FWE rings. Next page clockwise from top left: Athens. WWII memorial in Le Harve, France. Night time bazzar. A colorful temple in the orient. 22 Opening
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As the ship leaves port the nervousness has gone and excitement returns, dreams of far away places, people and things are interrupted by your sailing partner telling you to come up for a better look. Both of you stand on the flying bridge watching the world go by. You think to yourself, this isn't going to be so bad after all. Once you were at sea, the days flew by, the working became a routine thing. We manuvered in and out of port, took stars, repack- ed valves, corrected charts, tested boiler water, stood cargo watch, worked on the boilers, and more. We attempted to learn everything we could about the puzzle they call a ship. Nights were spent trying to plow through what seemed like a never ending stream of ques- tions known as a Sea Project. Every question was a new exercise in research, trying to remember if you saw that answer on page 75 of Bowditch or 999 of Osborne. Opening 21
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Port time was pure pleasure, there iwas never enough of it to do every- thing we wanted to do or see. There iwas always that one extra hour we Iwished we had as the ship left port. All of us have sea stories about this time in iRotterdam, that time in Santos, or the lother time in Kaoshiung. We envied sour classmates that were climbing through the ruins of Greece while they envied us for exploring the exotic of- ferings of the Far East. All of us learned during Sea Year, about the Merchant Marine and all it had to offer, but the most important lesson we learned, was about ourselves. Each of us grew up a little and found out what we were all about. For the Class of 1986, Sea Year has become a collection of photographs, letters home, and stories. A part of Academy history, a part of the four years we spent here, a part of our memories that we shall never forget. Opening 23
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