Talk:Chief mate

message: I rewrote this article, promoted it to start-class, and lowered the importance from high to mid. Haus42 17:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: De-stubbed

message: Moved stability section to Stability conditions (watercraft) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.182.175.218 (talk • contribs) Jun 10, 2007
:Ok my move was labeled vandalism and removed by Rich257. I guess I'll have to create an account and upload a picture of my chief Mate license to show that I'm not vandalizing the site. The reason I moved it is because their is way too much information and when my people I meet look up my job they are totally confused. They do not need to know the definition of traverse stability they only need to know what a chief mate is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.182.175.218 (talk • contribs) Jun 10, 2007 
::I agree with you and will attempt to delete the redundant stability info, hopefully it will work. I think there is alot more that can be moved but I'll start with just the stability info --Gcaptain 03:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stability issues

message: I think the statement that "A chief mate is almost always a watchstander" may be an exaggeration.  I'm a chief mate on a self-propelled semisbmersible and I don't stand watch, there's just too much cargo and maintenance to do. Neither do other chief mates in the rest of our fleet of drillships.  There's a two man watch with a 3/m and 2/m on the Bridge.  I know many tankers have an extra 3/m so the C/m doesn't stand watch. Just an observation, I'm new to wiki. This is a well written article, I won't change anything without cites to  back it up.   Orniphobe 12:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: When I wrote the sentence, I knew it was going to be problemmatic.  I think the only way to un-foul the sentence is to distinguish long-haul freighters from, for example research ships, workboats, and coasters.  But having stared at it for several minutes I don't see a way to make it more accurate without making it a mess.  If something like "A chief mate is typically a watchstander" feels better, please feel free to use it. HausTalk 17:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Watchstanding

message: Perhaps the article should also cover what this position looked like in the past, before there was licensing, rules and international federations. Though I don't know enough about that to write that in. --Petr Hudeček (talk) 18:16, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historically? 

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message: The article says "Hawsepiper refers to climbing up the hawsepipe, a nautical metaphor for climbing up the ship's rank structure". The origin of this is that traditionally sailors' quarters were in in forecastle (fo'c'sle, before the mast, bow) while the officers were in the stern. Starting from the hawsepipe meant starting far forward, that is, as a plain sailor. 80.39.248.186 (talk) 14:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
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