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Kilkrazy wrote:See this picture of German soldiers scrubbing the decks on a battleship.



Observe their body posture.

Pirates. All male crew. Long periods at sea.

Draw your own conclusions.

The position of the guns isn't helping the imagery any.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:See this picture of German soldiers scrubbing the decks on a battleship.

Spoiler:

Observe their body posture.

Pirates. All male crew. Long periods at sea.

Draw your own conclusions.

The position of the guns isn't helping the imagery any.

Neither are the men standing in line in the background

Kilkrazy wrote:See this picture of German soldiers scrubbing the decks on a battleship.



Observe their body posture.

Pirates. All male crew. Long periods at sea.

Draw your own conclusions.

Silly pirates, why didn't they just use metal decks with 'cleats' on it like diamond plate. How dare they not use something that hasn't been invented yet.

Maybe there was a prize like the slowest guy has to 'polish the captain's brass' or something like that. -shrugs-

most decks are wooden, even the battle ships and caririers of WW2, most of the time its teak (but is ture with Iroko as well as any moden deck wood,) hard wearing but gets slimmy when it gets even alittle mold on it. the scrubbing gets rid or the mold and its spores thus saving you a boat ( ) load of cash should a full case of rot develops. Its bloody hard to get rid of and requires you to cut to out as well as a foot around it like cancer.
The swabing action helps with the calking (trust me that is one of the most boaring jobs you can do) as it makes the thick twine soked in laninlin swell up. Its not the only bit of water proffing but its the easyist bit to reap and is usely done every year or so. It lets you see the state of the pitching and the wood under it.
FabricatorGeneralMike, you do know there was like sevral feet of rolled hardend steel armour under the wooden deck right?

Q: Why do pirates swab the deck?

A: To get to the other side.

I'm sure a not-insignificant aspect of this practice is to keep the crew busy.

Monster Rain wrote:I'm sure a not-insignificant aspect of this practice is to keep the crew busy.

certainly on a non-wind powered vessel.. I would imagine that a wind powered vessel would provide enough "work" to do for all ranks of a vessel at sea.

Monster Rain wrote:I'm sure a not-insignificant aspect of this practice is to keep the crew busy.

See my sig.

Boredom is bad for morale.

Usually when I am not busy at work, I start to think of wonderful ways to get myself in trouble.

How many unfortunate tales begin with: I was bored or I had nothing better to do...

d-usa wrote:Usually when I am not busy at work, I start to think of wonderful ways to get myself in trouble.

How many unfortunate tales begin with: I was bored or I had nothing better to do...

Most of mine are along the lines of "hey guys, I have a GREAT idea!"

Kilkrazy wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:I'm sure a not-insignificant aspect of this practice is to keep the crew busy.

See my sig.

What does that quote have to do with things you can't control?


@Ribbon, honestly I didn't know that, but I don't think that they had Aluminum Diamond plate


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Ribon Fox wrote:most decks are wooden, even the battle ships and caririers of WW2, most of the time its teak (but is ture with Iroko as well as any moden deck wood,) hard wearing but gets slimmy when it gets even alittle mold on it. the scrubbing gets rid or the mold and its spores thus saving you a boat ( ) load of cash should a full case of rot develops. Its bloody hard to get rid of and requires you to cut to out as well as a foot around it like cancer.
The swabing action helps with the calking (trust me that is one of the most boaring jobs you can do) as it makes the thick twine soked in laninlin swell up. Its not the only bit of water proffing but its the easyist bit to reap and is usely done every year or so. It lets you see the state of the pitching and the wood under it.
FabricatorGeneralMike, you do know there was like sevral feet of rolled hardend steel armour under the wooden deck right?

Ahhh sorry brainfarting =o[. I am talking about the Pirate Ship back in the day, not the German Battleship, I think our call got crossed.