The 12-4 watch on a ship is normally quiet and uneventful. Four long hours of staring at the radar, the frequent chart plot, and making small talk with the helmsman. This week was even a tad more dull, as the watches were dogged, and I was on the 12-6. I was struggling with the boredom. However, when the Captain made a late afternoon visit to the Bridge, things got a lot more interesting.
In 1982, I was a twenty-five-year-old Second Mate, working on a bulk carrier called the Star of Texas. She was a tad under 700 feet and had five breakbulk hatches. On this trip, from Baie Comeau, Canada to Haifa, Israel we were carrying soybeans.
The Captain was a fifty-year-old guy from Florida. Sid was a nice looking guy, probably six-two and slender from working out in the ships modest gym. Very pleasant, knowledgeable, and a good Captain, always willing to chat and impart knowledge.
Around 1600 one afternoon the Cap made a routine appearance on the Bridge, something I had come to expect.
“Second, how’s the watch?” asked the Captain, “Everything quiet?”
“Yes sir, had a couple of targets an hour back, but nothing within six miles. It’s been quiet,” I answered.
“Excellent," Cap answered. “Say, come by my office after watch, well after dinner, will you?”
“Sure, Cap, what’s up?” I asked.
“Nothing, just want to get to know you better, we haven’t really talked since departure,” Cap answered.
With two hours left in my watch, I had plenty of time to think about what the Cap could possibly want. We’d been at sea a little over five days and everything had been routine. My great circle was plotted and perfect, except Cap had done a modification yesterday to account for weather. The rhumbline to the Strait of Gibraltar certainly wasn’t an issue. I figured there was nothing wrong with my job performance, so it must just be personal, a get-to-know-you-type visit.
Fine by me, as Cap was a good-looking guy and I was not averse to spending time with him. I’d had a bisexual fling on a previous ship, and understood that an opportunity could arise from the least expected places. While I didn’t think the Cap was coming on to me, I was certain to be on the watch for an opportunity to re-experience some fun with a guy. Having had just the one previous experience, I was hopeful Cap was as horny as me!
Off watch and rushed through chow, I was knocking on the open door of the Captain's office and suite by 1620.
“Afternoon, Second, come in, close the door, would you?”
Oh boy, I thought, what could this be about? Close the door? I really wondered what the heck was going on. Door closed, I had a seat on the office settee, wondering what was coming next.
To my great relief, Cap really did just want to chat, get to know me and find out how things are with me. We ran through the usual subjects: where I grew up, what my interests were, where I’ve been sailing since getting out of Cal Maritime. Eventually, Cap got around to asking about girlfriends back home. I told him I’d had a couple of girls, nothing serious, and didn’t have a special friend at the moment.
”Ah,” he said, “join the club, I haven’t been with anyone in a long time either. Join the club of always horny seamen.”
“That’s me, Cap, nothing but porn mags to look forward to rest of the trip,” I answered.
“I’ve got a great stash of mags,” he said. “Want to look through them, see if you want to borrow a few?”
”Absolutely, Cap,” I quipped, “I’m always interested in new stuff!”
Waving me into his attached stateroom, he told me to have a seat. As there wasn't a chair in the stateroom, I had a seat on the side of his bed while the Cap opened the bottom drawer of his bureau. Oh man! He had a huge collection of everything from your basic Playboy, Penthouse, through some hardcore mags I had never seen before. Dropping a big stack on the bed between us, we both sat and started looking through the mags.
Now I’m no idiot, so my mind was racing... Is he seducing me? Oh my god, he’s the Captain and I’m looking through porn with him! What if he’s seducing me, am I going for it? With all the sexy fun thoughts from my previous bi-sex encounter running through my mind, I was excited, scared, and horny!
Every now and again, Cap would show me a page or a particular picture, commenting on the women in the picture. Their gorgeous breasts, their legs, their pussies. He had a particular attraction, it seemed, to shaved pussy, and always went out of his way to show me whenever he found one. This was 1982 and shaved pussies weren’t that common but were coming into vogue.
Ten minutes into the stack, his comments about the women started to include the men.
“Oh man,” he exclaimed, ”look at the cock on this guy!” leaning over to show me a photo of a gorgeous woman fondling a big thick cock.
”Wow, look how great she looks with that big cock in her mouth!” he said, showing me another.
Oh man, I thought, this is definitely him seducing me! But I think I’m fine with it, I’m definitely enjoying myself so far!
“Second, look at this guy. What a great-looking cock! See those huge balls? Man, big low hangers!” he said excitedly.
Okay, I thought, play along, time to take this to the next level. Let’s see what happens!
I said, “Oh man, those balls are gorgeous! Big, heavy balls and a thick cock. She’s a lucky girl.”