Actually made it home. Feels sureal. Tomorrow will be the first day in 8 months with no schedule (except party in the evening). When I say "1st day" I mean '1st day'. It's been 10-12 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Considering the Date line, we even have 8 day weeks. Threaten me with a 6x6(or bigger) if I ever decided to do that again as 2nd in ( Read more... )

I'm officially relieved of duty, just hanging around as an 'advisor' through seatrials tomorrow. If the typhoon doesn't delay the flight, I'll be home Friday night ( Read more... )

Hi All, I know I've been out here for a while, but I'm finally trying
out the email from the ship.

In case it does -

This morning there was a ship on the radar with the name of 'Goddess'
(it was at tanker).

So I joked that I saw the Goddess on the horizon just after sunrise.

Cheers, T

I read back on my stories, and it feels like I complain allot - but then again, it isn't always a picnic. On the other hand - I will have a killer resume when I finish here. We did pass a double inspection this weekend (with flying colors), and tomorrow we have one more. The biggest one ( Read more... )

We head out today, after a week in Saipan. I've been on this ship now for 5 months, with 3 to go. But if I add up the two months last year, and the 8 months this year, it averages to 5 months a year I work. I keep reminding myself that when I also remember I've had 1 (ONE) day off of 10-12 hours days in the last 5 months ( Read more... )

So here I am - a month later - and after reading the old post - yup - we're still working out the bugs. Engines - steering ( Read more... )

I wrote this last month - lost it, and now it showed up again in the drafts ( Read more... )

It's been two months here, and of course - last minute things breaking - but it's all coming together. We get underway tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was also realising, that if I was getting relieved on time, I would be home in a month. But I won't be - still early November ( Read more... )

We just put the ship in the water after 3 weeks on the blocks in dry dock. Even the engineers were saying how 'it just feels right' having water under the keel. There was a 1 degree list - and although that doesn't seem like much - we are sensitive to it enough that crew were asking when I was going to trim the ship ( Read more... )

It was gray yesterday, and raining today. Feels like home. With less than two weeks before underway, there is order to the chaos. Every agency under the sun wants to audit us, but just when we need training, the LAN is being upgraded - so I can't access most of my paperwork, and we still have to get the ship back in the water. But for some ( Read more... )