Not Long To Go

Things are finally busy and I only have three weeks left until I escape on leave.  It is good to get back to sea though rather than being tied up alongside; it is just ashame that it has been so rough as it is a little uncomfortable getting thrown around.

 

I had a good start to the month though as I was transferred to another ship and had a temporary promotion to Executive Officer for a week.  It was a great experience and helped me build my confidence for the future. Although I am pleased I transferred back when I did as I think some rather irate Marines were about to rejoin the ship.  They had been away for the weekend and left all their kit neatly layed out on the tank deck ready for Monday, however as we were expecting rough weather over the weekend I had the lads secure it all so we scooped it all up on a couple of pallets and threw a cargo net across it.

 

The transfers to and from the ship were fun.  I got picked up by the marines in one of their big ribs; it was quite an exhilarating trip out to the ship doing 30-40kts across Falmouth bay in choppy seas.  I thought I was going to end up with whiplash or get thrown out the boat.  The trip back between ships was much more pleasurable though as they sent a Lynx to pick me up and I had a nice flight across the rolling hills of Devon.  It was nice transferring and getting taken from door to door so to speak as I didn’t have to worry about anything.

 

Well I came back and had little time to get my feet under the table with a backlog of a weeks work to catch up and the ship had already embarked our flight.  However because of the weather during the first few days much of the flying was curtailed.

 

Well not long to go now, I have started righting my end of term report and will start compiling my handover notes in the next few days and then home in December to Debbie and the two little ones