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MARE ISLAND YARD OVERHAUL
in December of 1963 the Segundo headed north to the San Francisco Bay area for a yard overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The crew on duty while the boat was in dry-dock stayed on a barge nearby and I had the honor of painting the Segundo emblem,the Gaucho riding a torpedo, on the side of the barge. Captain Maire found out from my service record that prior to joining the Navy that I had a thriving business painting custom cars. He sat down with me and drew out in pencil what the emblem should look like and we agreed on the colors. I went over to the paint shop at the base and they fixed me up with paint and some brushes. I got some help with the painting from a shipmate Jim Hughes. I'm sending in a picture of our masterpiece for the picture gallery. I don't know to this day whether that was the creation of the Segundo emblem or if it had been around for some time. I had started working on the quartermaster gang in addition to my submarine qualification requirements under Bob Lawson QM1 SS. One day Lawson said,"hey do you play golf?" and I replied with "shit yes". So we ventured over to the Mare Island Naval Country Club for several rounds of golf. The wind blew off the San Francisco bay constantly and that golf course probably had the hardest greens,like concrete, of any course I had played up to that time or since. In any event playing golf beat the shit out of working. I notice that Dick Lindsey commented on Andy Patterson and the bets he made on the Cassius Clay Sunny Liston fight. Paterson hit me up one night in the barracks to bet on the fight. I told him I had never heard of Cassius Clay and didn't know shit about boxing. I saved myself some money by not betting with Patterson. And then at the end of the yard overhaul there were the sea trials off the Farralon Islands in rough weather. I didn't have much sea time under my belt at that time but I did remembered the USS Thresher going down with its crew during sea trials during the time that I was in submarine school. In addition to sweating out the sea trials, I got a major case of seasickness but there was some comfort in knowing that I wasn't the only one who got sick. I thought to myself if it was going to be like this for the rest of my time on the Segundo I was screwed. Thank god that was the only time I ever got seasick.