“This is Captain Ocampo, but you may call him Captain Chunky,” Bayani said.
“Captain Chunky?”
The captain laughed and extended his hand. “Yes, it is what my grandchildren call me. And look at me! It fits.”
All of us got a laugh out of that. “Okay, Captain Chunky it is.”
I explained our mission in Mindanao and wherever else we might need to go.
“I must ask that you not put my ship or crew into any undue danger,” Captain Chunky said. “We are not a fighting vessel.”
“What about those two deck guns you got?” Gower asked. “Who mans them when there’s trouble?”
“I have four crew who are trained on the guns. When there’s trouble, they man the deck guns. But we haven’t had any trouble with pirates in almost two years.”
“Glad to hear it, Captain. We don’t expect any trouble either, and we ce
