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>at anchor about half a mile offshore Kona doing tendering
>sitting on the starboard bridge wing controlling the heading of the ship with one engine pod
>wind has been annoyingly calm all watch, can't find a setting on the pods worth a damn to keep the ship on a constant heading
>wind finally goes up to 15 knots
>and then keeps climbing
>mfw 25 knots out of nowhere
>mfw 35 knots out of nowhere
>mfw FORTY FIVE KNOTS OUT OF NOWHERE
>a massive squall comes out of the blind side of the ship
>and that one pod ain't doing shit even at 60 rpm
>mfw if I hadn't been paying attention we could have easily gone on the rocks
>mfw we still might have gone on the rocks regardless
Smashed that Captain's Call button like it was a bug. What the fuck is going on? Hawaii is not supposed to get this kind of weather.