We did some 45 degree snap rolls during sea trials. Those were pretty damn impressive - especially since nobody warned the mess cooks beforehand. They'd just set up the mess decks for breakfast, including a full set of condiments at each table. The condiment trays weren't equipped with any sort of hold-down mechanism, so when we pulled the first snap roll, everything slid off the tables and smashed onto the deck. Then we did several more snap rolls and this unholy combination of honey, ketchup, fake maple syrup, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco sauce sloshed from one side of Crew's Mess to the other.

I hope that that Hartford will be able to make a normal transit back Stateside. That hull form isn't very well suited to crossing the North Atlantic on the surface; if they have to do a surface transit, they're going to see a lot of thirty-degree-plus rolls.

(New Orleans is the gator freighter, so she'd better stay on the surface.)