A fellow nav. student was requested to be at the Thorney Island Sailing Club jetty at 8.00 a.m. on Monday morning. It transpired that his task was to take the painter whilst a more senior officer held the dingy steady. All under the supervision the Station Commander whose duty was to give an AOC a helping hand onto the jetty after his weekend aboard his yatch. Apparently this was quite a common Monday morning ritual.
n.b. The gentleman was not AOC FTC but a well known name at the time.