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Category Archives: Fall Contracts
Playing Hooky – Seattle, Wetdock Day 2 – [09/26/2017]
I never knew that…playing hooky could be so much fun. Neither did I. ~ Hercules Wetdock has provided the entertainment department with a rather unusual circumstance: aside from the occasional training meeting and the coast-guard required crew drills – we … Continue reading
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Under Construction – Seattle, Wet Dock Day 1 – [09/25/2017]
In eight years there isn’t a great deal I haven’t done on ships, but this will be my first time working through maintenance cruise. To say this is a little bizarre is a bit of an understatement, I have never … Continue reading
Silent Cogs – At Sea – [09/21/2017]
Even with the new job – which I love, which half the time doesn’t even feel like work – my clockwork sometimes fails me. Crawled into bed relatively early last night because I could tell my body was trying to … Continue reading
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We Went…which-a-way? – Homer (not Seward), Alaska – [09/20/2017]
When you’ve done as many contracts as Amras and I have in Alaska, you kind of come to the natural assumption that you know the ports. After all, between the two of us we have been up and down the … Continue reading
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Sparkle Creek – Ketchikan, Alaska – [09/13/2017]
Usually the end of the Alaska season is a mess of rain and rough weather; but so far this cruise it seems that Mother Nature has decided that the storm she pounded us with last week (which at one point … Continue reading
On Breakthroughs – Ketchikan, Alaska –[09/13/2017]
Progress report: You learn three chords, you can play any rock n’ roll song in the books My father said that…and much as I hate to admit it, he was probably right. I knew for the last two weeks that … Continue reading
Partial, Potential, Reversion (Don’t Worry It’s Temporary) – Seattle, WA – [09/11/2017]
I was in the main office today organizing some things that need to be done in Seattle whilst we’re in wetdock, and at the same time my boss, Amras, and I were chatting about things that are going to be … Continue reading
Clearly Jumbled – Victoria, BC – [09/10/2017]
Progress report: So, today I fumbled my way slowly (I mean really slowly, stopping every few seconds slowly) through the first phrases of a song. A song that only needs three chords, and I am still pretty sure my guitar … Continue reading
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Backstage – At Sea – [09/09/2017]
The thing with the cruise industry is – much like any other entertainment situation – what you see on the surface is only just a tiny bit of what’s actually going on. At the moment we are on our second … Continue reading
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Uniformly Un-uniformed – Anchorage, Alaska – [09/04/2017]
It’s the computer age. Nerds are in! …They…are still in right? ~ Willow Rosenberg Last cruise I was wearing company greys and feeling for all the world like I’d stepped out of a classic 1940s movie. Don’t get me wrong, … Continue reading
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