[FONT="]It's not at all unusual to be the lone cadet onboard.. I've even seen cadets come aboard in a pair but leave singly. Now with the 60 day commercial sea time requirement for state academies, a lone KP cadet might even find that he's sailing with a cadet from a state school. Both my sons had that happen to them. My older KP son twice sailed with state maritime cadets and my younger CMA son sailed a voyage with a Kings Point cadet.
[/FONT] I agree 100% and I don't think it can be stressed enough..
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Two great ports where you could go ashore and have fun..
.. Did you pay off in 'rope yarns'?
Was the LESLIE LYKES a Gulf Pacer or Gulf Pride class? I'm pretty sure she wasn't a Far East Clipper. I think she may have been a Pacer. One of those weird configured C-5's with number 5 hatch right in the middle of the house. I never sailed on a Pacer, but I remember ‘night mating’ a couple of them.
You got that right! Sadly, the maritime industry I started in 36 years ago is in a lot of ways unrecognizable to me now..[/FONT]