chapter seven the seas are whipping up pretty good by now , getting into rota tomorrow is going to be a bitch if this keeps up , the waves crack against the hull and the wind whips cold spray into the hangar bay , cold january ocean on your face but it feels good and there is a pretty good crowd standing around the elevator doors watching the waves run by , and the ship rolling and heeling and humming deep on the port rolls like breathing and cutting into the ocean moving pretty good for a 30-year-old ship at 18 knots [ 81 ] , you could water ski behind her tonight .