Category Archives: deck and engine room

Be nice to the spanners

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Tim

Have lost contact with the muse recently and got entangled in the Wire. All 5 series seen now, and I feel like Jimmy Mc Nulty after a wake at Kavanagh’s bar. Still it’s a great show. Anyway back to blogging. … Continue reading →

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Keeping the peace

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Tim

Note to self…don’t order fresh milk for the ship again in the hot summer months. There were a few sour tempers between the deck and engine room departments today so I had to use all my skills as a mediator … Continue reading →

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It was all better in the good old days?

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Tim

I wonder who Noah complained about on the Ark, or did Vasco da Gama give out about the conditions on his ship, or the Phoenician sailors did they have decent coffee at breaktime? They certainly didn’t have to hear the … Continue reading →

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Wind up’s

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Tim

On the long voyages on big VLCC’s where you have 3 or 4 weeks of a voyage between the Persian Gulf and Aruba around the cape things tended to get a bit monotonous, this was in the days before internet … Continue reading →

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Ewan and the Marine Corp.

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Tim

The continuation of Tims cadetship adventure. The Rangers gang and I made a truce after about 3 months into my first trip, it got boring after a while and we made a deal, they would stop slagging me and stop … Continue reading →

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