The Pilot SWATH crosses our wake
The VHF crackled to life today before smoko (coffee break), we were advised to start engines, pick up hook and proceed immediately to the pilot station for inward passage to Hamburg.
So after all the silence and waiting it’s action time again in true merchant navy fashion, longer periods of calm followed by short bursts of frenetic near panic activity. You get used to it. The pilot asked the same questions as the coastguard did yesterday that we had previously answered on our arrival 3 days ago…….it is a bit like an interrogation albeit a very slow one , I wonder what would happen if any of the answers were different from the previous times, probably nothing but then again in this day and age you never know. I have a feeling we will be questioned further on arrival at Hamburg this evening.
Time for arrival preparations, more later. Tim
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