Bon Journo. Well its been a week since I left the Middle East and I thought it was high time I wrote something. It’s been an adventure of the rather large persuasion. I don’t live an ordinary life but I guess I never have. I got out of Qatar in one piece. In an odd turn […]
I remember being quite dispirited and low leaving my last boat. Our Med season had been a grind and I dont think we ever had time to get over our brush with death and the man over board we dealt with in the Bay of Biscay. My wife had returned home to New Zealand and […]
At some point during the year of the Dragon 2012 the FireDragon forgot how intrinsically magical he was. It wasn’t until the full solar eclipse the FireDragon remembered how to use magic. First he asked for good luck wishes and spells far and wide. He had two replies. Two were all that he needed given […]
Well I passed my course. <Insert Applause here> It was very difficult. I wager I did more study in two weeks than I did in years at high school. I was lucky that my hotel was only 3 minutes from the Marine school and I did not have to walk past any pubs. I did do some nice […]
We had quite a successful boss trip last week. It lasted about six days and we had some very good feedback from all key steakholders (intentional pun). Directly after the trip our Captain congratulated us. He told us we had three days off and all crew were entitled to a massage from the local therapist. […]
There are occasions when Google fails me and I have to resort to more archaic methods of finding things out. Such was the case late last week when I set about trying to find information on this topic. A Seaman book is a travel document which records when you join and leave boats. It is […]
Yesterday morning after some more than pointless running Joe and I took a rental car and went surfing. We are lucky on the Seychelles that there is usually a swell of some sorts. I can’t think of many yachting cruising locations that you can go for a surf before and after work. Joe drives quite […]
Past readers may remember me complaining about the futile exercise that Running is. Having been a while I thought it would be prudent to resurrect this favourite topic of mine. For the past two months I have been engaged in a regular running. I get up before Sunrise, don armour and stagger, stumble and canter in the […]
I think my whole body and mind sighed with relief this morning when I went outside for the first time in five days. The temperature was probably about 26 degrees. The air so clean it felt like breathing menthol and the view was this. I am looking forward to returning your normal scheduled programming here.
With only 6 hours to go I think it is safe to say that we have had a happy and peaceful crossing. I have had a lifetimes worth of traumatic passages in my short career so I am happy we have had a good one. What did happen? Well our Security guards managed to put […]