I can’t believe it has only been two weeks, it seems so long since I have seen Debbie or the little ones. Even our last Skype call seems an age ago. I have settled into a routine onboard which always helps it is just ashame that the Paradigm phones are not very reliable at the moment so our supposed 30 minutes of phone calls a week turns into 30 minutes of queuing for the phone, 30 minutes of trying to get connected and then once connected you either get cut off or can’t understand what they are saying as the quality is poor. At least the emails work OK and at the end of the day it is so much better than 20 years ago (OK yes I am feeling old but at least I should get my long service medal this year) when we had nothing.
We did our first RAS today all 5 hours of it. It is good to get back to sea and do the core business and even after all this time it is still impressive seeing two ship’s of 20000plus tons steaming along 30m apart. For the evolution today I was running between RASCO and the bridge which meant I got a go at the station keeping, it is great driving the ship and keeping it in position, especially in the weather we have out here (not so pleasant in the channel in winter). I had great fun standing on the bridge wing with the wind in my hair, however it was mentally draining after a while.
Things have been busy as always this end but at least the time is going quickly. I have managed to get down the gym most nights, although last night I did take some work down with me however I have decided it is not that easy trying to highlight sections of an oporder whilst pedalling on the exercise bike. I should have left it back in my cabin and just taken my book down instead. Tonight is the first night that I haven’t been down for a while so I must make sure I go down tomorrow night for a good read.
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