February 21st 2014, Friday
After a day
of delay due to bad weather (which i had nothing to do but look for rust and
sweep it on the deck as my maintenance work), This ship has finally commenced
in berthing with Vladimir tikonov at around 10am. We didn't do any deck
maintenance work when we were standby at around 8am given that mooring and
berthing are more important , and aside from that we don't kind of feeling like
working at all since 7 Filipino crew will be disembarking (including me) on the
turkey straights right after this operation.
Everything
was ready before the this ship berthed to Vladimir , SOPEP , Fire fighting
Equipment. So it was just directly going back to the security watch duties
after Mooring.
From what i
heard on the rumour that loading operations will be very short in "FCS
Vladimir Tikhonov" , roughly just 12 hours to 16 hours since it pumps
cargo much faster than "NS Lion" . After my watch , I did the usual
packing of my luggage and couldn't sleep comfortably out of the excitement of
disembarking soon. I was thinking whether i would be disembarking while this
ship is in the middle of channelling away on Istanbul or when this ship is at
anchorage ? Anyway this is just a minor detail and wouldn't matter at all.
Anyway in
other rumours ....
I heard
from homer (during our time on cargo ops) that 2nd officer "Bastard -
O" is having a eye inflammation or eye strain of some sort and that he is
going to be left out along with third engineer on the disembarkation from this
ship. Seriously I'm normally not like this but this is the first time that I'm
glad to heard about someone's misfortune , Serve's him right that pussy ass
mother fucker !!! And that's what he gets for being a dickhead here onboard. I
glad he's going to be left behind
During my
night watch duties (12 midnight till 6am), I was kept pretty much occupied in
assisting those Ukrainian Surveyors in taking cargo samples from slop cargo
tank, It was chore assisting them as they made a big mess in collecting cargo
samples - As in the whole tank hatch was covered with bunker fuel , and even my
I as well .
Another
worst thing that happened was chief mate instructed me to take cargo samples in
slop starboard tank when loading operations was already over. Good thing i was
able to remedy the situation by opening the cargo hatch and getting some
equipment from the deck store and took the heaving line from the aft area.
14 bottles
(1 liter each ) were the total number of samples I took and a shitload of a
mess in the slop tank hatch when i finally got to finish the job. Hopefully The
mooring team on the aft wont recognize that their heaving line will be a bit
shorter than the usual by the time this ship reaches Cartagena Spain and when
that happens I'm no longer around and will be most likely in the Philippines.
The pilot
was expected to arrive at around 8am , but apparently it was already 10am when
O.S. Del Monte knocked to my door and said its Unmooring time. Unmooring
operations went on without any problems.
A few hours
later after unmooring ops, A short notice memo just came in from career
shipping informing that the crew change will be unlikely in Turkish Straights .
Possibly the next crew change will be on next port , Cartagena Spain
