Scott Kreger's website
Life of a Navi-guesser.
Hello and thank you for visiting my website. This website will primarily be used for friends and family to see the latest in my travels as a merchant mariner. Currently on the SS Curtiss as Chief Mate, our ship is in ROS (Reserve Operational Status) in San Diego, Ca. We just got back from Vancouver, Canada, where the Canadian Special Forces used our ship as a platform on which to train on. The cool thing about our ship is it's versatility.
Today's events.
Wednesday, January. 27th 2010
Sitting at the dock, enjoying the fact that the Bosun who has plagued this ship for years is not present at this time. Only time will tell if he makes it back and we are all keeping our fingers crossed he see's the light and does not return. Our forward boom's have finally been rigged with new wire, and the riggers are putting the final touches on the booms themselves. Soon we will be ready to roll. Our sister ship, The Wright, is setting sail tomorrow for sea trials, then pulling into Norfolk for fuel & stores, then off to Haiti she goes.
On the bridge wing of the USNS Charlton
The SS Curtiss is an aviation logistic support ship. Length overall is 602 ft. Speed at 80% power is 23 knots, with 30,000 shaft horsepower. We can house 300 Marines, 41 crew, and 25 "other". We have underway replenishment capabilities, a helicopter landing platform, and heavy lift cranes. The Curtiss is a combined Navy, Marine Corps, and Maritime Administration program to provide dedicated sealift capabilities for movement of a functional aviation intermetiate maintenance activity (IMA) to support the reapid deployment of United States Marine Corps fixed and rotary wing aircraft units.
Any damn fool can circumnavigate the world sober.
It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
- Francis Chichester
