Corrie wrote:

Whunicut wrote
...
Quite right, John. Deploying onboard the (fill in the name) sounds
right.

I always thought that the only 'boats' in the Navy apart from lighters
and liferafts were the subs.

It may weight 80,000 tons, but it sure looks
like a boat from the cockpit. : )

As far as the risk/benefit ratio goes, well, people sail small boats
across the ocean when they could get much the same effect by standing
in a cold shower ripping up hundred-dollar bills.

I just watched on OLN a show about bull riding followed by a show about
running the bulls at Pamplona. There's no accounting for taste in
thrills...