The Pineapple Fleet: 3/1/09

Friday, March 20, 2009

UNIT SITREP 201930Z MAR 09 First Official Action IRT Operation Homeport Change Puna

As this weblog was begun with the intention to be the log that chronicles our progress in eventual move to the Big Island for our retirement, I am posting today to announce the first of our series of milestones toward that end.

Yesterday I bought a ticket for a round trip flight to Hilo in mid-April, where I will be looking at acreage in the Puna District on which to build our retirement home when we finish up our business here on the Mainland. I expect to be there about 5 days, during which time I hope to find that one of the places on my list will prove a suitable piece of land for our hale likaia.

Mahalo nui to my friend and Shipmates Lee and Patty for their gracious invitation to allow me to impose on their Hale 'Ohana during my visit. I am also looking forward to face-to-face talk story with several of my BI makamaka whom I have met through PunaOnline, Damon Tucker's Weblog and Devany Vickery Davidson's My Hawaiian Home.

More to follow along this subject line after completion of my trip. Aloha nui.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

UNIT SITREP 111400Z MAR 09

Still alive and kicking here, claiming victory over recent engagement with locally circulating flu bug. Work schedule exceedingly aggressive here lately, impeding my attention to posting. Pushing through this crunch and will be back soon.

Meantime, 6 mooring lines doubled up, tending fair. Quarterdeck, Cold Iron and Sounding Security Watches set with all but Duty Sections in a liberty status. All conditions normal; the Captain is ashore.

Aloha

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Binnacle List

Have been Tango Uniform for the better part of the last week with a respiratory crud. Recovering, but still feeling punk. Will get back to full operational status soon. Meantime, any takers on the significance to this post of the image shown here?

Back soon...Aloha nui.

E Komo Mai!

E komo mai iā kaʻu blog!

Routine Condition III steaming with all four mains on the line, making maximum turns for that ultimate set of orders for our twilight tour in a few years. Aloha to return visitors and I hope you’re enjoying my contribution to the exponentially increasing volume of information out there.

New visitors will see topics here related to maritime themes, occasional editorial or opinion posts of a random nature, and whenever necessary by way of progress, UNIT SITREPS reporting milestones achieved toward our homeport shift and one way transit to MIDPAC DET Puna, Kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, when conditions enable us to make it so.

Still telling sea stories and other lies, and still trying desperately to hang on to contact with my Brothers and Sisters in the Navy CPO community; those of you real Chiefs...Initiated Chiefs...you remain at the top of my most cherished and respected friends list. This graphic sends a special encrypted message for certain recipients.

Although since its inception, this blog has not had particularly intensive activity, I hope to improve that whenever time and noteworthy events permit. I’m not one to report every thought or experience…that’s what Twitter is for. I do however, like to write about things that interest or inspire me strongly, and other times I just get an urge to throw out a post because I can. It’s a voluntary read, but I hope nevertheless that someone, somewhere might get something of value out of it, if only a bit of interesting information, a smile, or help killing idle time on a slow Midwatch. All good.

As always,

Me ka aloha pumehana, a me Malama pono.