Arsenault To My Rescue!
As a QM (Wayne), did you work for Arsenault? I thought that he was a great sailor. On a stormy cruise to Alaska, Jim Hall(XO & Navigator) took to his bunk and I (Wardroom flunky and Asst. Navigator on the organization chart) was blessed with being the navigator for the cruise(& we were the flagship!). Arsenault helped me a lot, particularly because the storm allowed only Loran fixes and they were pretty shaky at the higher latitudes. There is a funny story involved about this that I've got to write-up sometime. Let's just say that I didn't finish the cruise as the navigator. When Dick Mathews left the ship for a job as XO/Navigator on an LST, he got Arsenault transferred with him to cover the navigator part of the job.