#pilot house

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My Pilothouse, J. Kinder Design

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The Tuesday Haunting: The Pilot House - 

Built in 1839, the Pilot House has long stood on Boston Harbor, serving as a place to sleep for ship’s captains and the like. When people go there today, they can hear the sounds of doors slamming and a drunken card game that ended years and years ago. However, the most vivid companion awaiting visitors is a woman in white who haunts the kitchen as if waiting for a hungry sailor to come looking for a hot meal.

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Ship drivers....

United States Navy sailors man the helm (ship-control station) on the bridge of San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20).

(That’s the Boatswain’s Mate of the Watch keeping an eye on everything off to the right.)

                                      USS Green Bay (LPD 20)

These sailors are part of a team constantly manning the pilot house of Navy ships while underway. The size of that team can range from as little as three on a very small ship....to a dozen or more aboard larger ships.

The Officer of the Deck (OOD) is the one in charge -- and ultimately responsible for everyone’s actions and professionalism. He or she has the safety, security and readiness of hundreds to thousands of crewmembers and up to billions of dollars of ship in their hands during their watch period.

Assisting the OOD will usually be a Junior Officer of the Deck (JOOD) -- learning the ropes and working towards full qualification as an OOD.

In addition....the Boatswain’s Mate of the Watch (BMOW) -- in charge of the enlisted sailors on the bridge watch....the lookouts, stationed, as necessary, at various point around the ship....the Messenger of the Watch (MOOW)....administrative matters....being aware of the location of the Captain and Executive Officer (In case they are needed quickly for an emergent issue.), and ensuring the ship’s routine is carried out in the prescribed manner during that watch period.

There will also be a navigation team consisting of the Quartermaster of the Watch (QMOW), and, on the larger ships, and assistant or two.

The bridge on a warship can become quite crowded during especially difficult and challenging seamanship evolutions....such as leaving and entering a port....as shown here aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) as the ship departs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

                                          USS Hopper (DDG 70)

All of these professional seamen must work as a fine-tuned machine every single second of their four- to five-hour watch period once or twice per day at sea. One mistake can lead to catastrophe -- from injuries to accidents to collision....or worse.

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I qualified as an Officer of the Deck in 1978 aboard my first ship, USS Chicago (CG 11)....a huge guided-missile cruiser. It wasn’t the highest qualification I earned during my career....but I think this one brought me the greatest personal and professional pride, and a deep sense of achievement.

I was still learning to “drive” as a JOOD aboard USS Chicago (CG 11) as this photo was taken in March 1978.

As one very tough and “salty” senior officer once emphatically instructed me: “When you’re Officer of the Deck....and you say “Come left”....every swinging d**k aboard this ship had better come left!” (This was in the late 1970s....right before women started going to sea aboard Navy vessels.) (No offense meant to my most esteemed female shipmates with whom I served together with professional pride and enduring friendship in later years!)

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>>Top photo: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Collins III, USN

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Heeeeeey, did I totally forget to tell you all that I started a new podcast? XD

If you like listening to amusing people joke about pop culture, give my show Pilot House a try! My friend Strangely and I are watching the pilot episodes of TV shows we've never seen before, and trying to suss out where the show was going from there. So far we've covered White Collar, Charmed, NCIS, Moonlighting, and in our latest episode, Degrassi: Next Class!

Give it a listen, won’t you? ^_^

[foodiepilgrim]

Oyster Po'boy @ Pilot House

Via Foodspotting

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[prettyarchitecture]

Zeb pilot house

Plus House Larvik is a pilot project on a family house out of the ordinary. By optimizing architectural qualities and technological solutions, the house serves both the living and energy needs of a family house, in addition to generating enough energy surpluses to power an electric car year-round.

The house is the result of a collaboration between the architecture and design firm Snøhetta, Scandinavia’s largest independent research body SINTEF, Zero Emission Building (ZEB) partner Brødrene Dahl, and Optimera. The project describes a single family house, however, the building is primarily intended for use as a demonstration platform to facilitate learning.

The house in the garden has a characteristic tilt towards southeast and a sloping roof surface clad with solar panels and collectors. These elements, together with geothermal energy from energy wells in the ground, serve the energy need for the house. The project has a strong focus on retaining home-like qualities through non-quantifiable properties. Emotive comfort and sense of wellbeing have governed the design process to the same extent as energy demands.

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Architect: Snohetta

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Virtual Stable Diaries - Pilot House

On Friday at Gulfstream Park, PILOT HOUSE is entered in the featured race, a juvenile allowance at a mile on dirt. I placed Pilot House into my Virtual Stable after the Nashua Stakes, where he mixed it up near the front after an imperfect start (lost footing per the chart) but was simply outclassed by MOHAYMEN.

Here are his TimeformUS PPs coming into tomorrow’s race:

Things didn’t go so great at the start of the debut win either which was partly to blame for the sluggish figure earned there. But he showed there that he could run, and he backed it up in the Nashua despite finishing seventh of seven in the field.

I wouldn’t have minded finding him in a spot where he was higher than 4-1 on the morning line, but at least here I suspect we won’t get worse than that. 

Without the potential for a bigger payout and with my focus on Tampa’s Saturday card I am not fully handicapping the race. DESTIN may prove tough, but I think Pilot House will be worth a play. Definitely worth watching.