GUEST DRILL

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usually the poor Captain is left to struggle with very important persons. This is too hard a lot not to have a drill. A ship is usually warned that it is going to have callers by hours or even minutes. Therefore this drill includes neating the place up fast, getting the ship snugged up to the dock or the ladder or the gangway squared away, seeing the proper flags are flying, tending the side, helping the guest aboard, giving the guest a host or hostess without tearing the top brass of the ship to bits, providing the guest with a drink or coffee, getting the guest's business attended to and the top brass required in and out, getting the guest back over the side. This includes providing a boat when at anchor. The stress here is to make a snappy, polite atmosphere and to effectively get guests aboard and gone. The same drill is used for dinner guests and even for parties given aboard except when they are for ship's company. (Ship's Org Bk.)