Few days
after this ship left Senegal, the next location it was headed was in las palmas
islands (territory of Spain just west of morocco)to do some bunkering. By the
time this ship arrived , the sea was a bit rough and had postponed bunkering
operations and waited until early morning when the sea calmed down. the
bunkering ship was also having difficulty and was "Shakey" going up
and down, to the point that we ask ourselves if bunkering at this time was a
bad idea.
I was at
the monkey island at that time doing maintenance work in painting the tower
with white coloured paint (Along with O.S. Macalawa and Bosun Payopay). At that
height I was able to see it very clearly on what is happening on that bunker
ship and saw as crystal the rolling and heaving motion. Hopefully bunkering was
Finished at noon without any incident even if the sea was rough. This ship
resumed going northward to Gibraltar to wait further announcements from the
shipping office on when will be the next loading port.
On the next
few days that this ship was going northward, we went on the usual deck
maintenance work in the "monkey island" area of the ship. Painting
white paint all over the area and doing a "full coat" on anything we
could see. After that we went busy on the aft part changing the paint of the
deck level from orange to red.
On the
night of October 14, 2014, Ship got a nasty rolling motion , it was so bad that
most of my stuff on my cabin fell off from cabinets and rackets and had to put
them on a much safer area around my cabin, I haven't experienced this kind of
terrible roll in years (since my time in Bow Ophelia) . Apparently from what I
heard on the following morning , it turns out that captain Ivaylo Kolev fiddled
with the steering controls which in resulted to make the ship roll badly - the
rolling motion was so bad , that I might think that this ship is going to make
a "Barrel roll". Anyway the
moral lesson to be learned on that is that never fiddle with the Auto-pilot
steering when in transit on bay of Biscay - OR ELSE !!! . Well don’t
really mind if the captain wants to fiddle the controls once in a while but of
all the time and place on this planet he had to pick, why does he had to
manipulate the controls while in Biscay huh ?! , He could meddle with the
controls inside the Mediterranean - heck I don’t even give a shit if he messes
it even if were in the north or south pole , but never interfere with the auto
pilot steering on the north of France, the sea area there is fucking terrible
and hellishly rough - enough to make everyone sea sick, or sink the ship. What a total dumb ass !!!
At October
14, 2014. We received word that this ship will be heading northward all the way
back to Netherlands Rotterdam which is one of the busiest port in the world and
well known popular among the sailing community worldwide. Anyway honestly the
only thing that comes up on my mind on Netherlands is "Sunny Euro"
store and "Botlek" , and I had come up with the list of items I would
buy if this ship would possibly berth in that port ,unfortunately latter in the
afternoon plans for going to Rotterdam were cancelled and was replaced instead
of going to St. Petersburg Russia by the NSB management , maybe there's a
possibility that this ill go to rotterdam on the way back (meaning discharge
operation)
