May
20, 2015 Wednesday
Finally
arrived in South Carolina, U.S.A. and the first thing that greeted me was to
drop anchor at around 7 to 8 pm. Anyway turns out that this anchoring session
wasn't very pleasant and our beloved "GOD Captain" yelled at the
radio that I was putting a break while the anchor was dropping, bastard even
mention that he was looking at us.
Whatever he
meant he's not looking clearly and most probably he assumed that I was putting
the break when it fact I was just adjusting the speed and pace of the drop.
Anyway I'd be very glad that he will be disposed of when this ship reaches
Panama canal (sign on / drop off point for sailors, In other words a convenient
port), just two more ports and my problems with him will be a thing of the
past.
In relation
to this topic , I do admire BOSUN Mario Diosana's efforts in defending me on
the screw up in dropping anchor and from our captains hysteria. He has
basically no obligation to helping people and yet he does his best in defending
his subordinates, Most BOSUN's wouldn't do things like that. He's a good man in
this very bad joke - A good man inside this whole rotten maritime community
full of wicked people. He has my respects on protecting me.
Despite the
good news and to the joy of all the crew that Sorin Sageta will soon be
disposed of, It appears that it will be short lived and rumored that the person
who will be replacing him is far worse, From what I heard from O.S. Keith
(person who replaced O.S. Ralph Crisostomo) this person doesn't have an
hysteria problem but is referred to as a "Silent Killer" and came
from CONTI Humbolt, and equally as deadly and fearsome as Sorin. It's possible
that I'm going to have my hands full in dealing with this, Lucky for me that
NSB contracts are just around 6 months and I still have a remaining four months
left - so it's not going to be a long dragging problem.
In other
news
I
encountered a minor problem at the bond store in which the numbers do not
tally, specifically on a beer item called "ASTRA" . From the count it
looks like that were missing one case, but after a thorough search it was later
found out that it was just in the vegetable room - no harm done, well maybe,
but by bad luck turns out that 3rd mate
German Corales already spread the gossip to the whole crew that someone stole
it rather than confirm it first that it was just missing. Anyway it appears
that his nature hasn't changed at all since Cape Tallin days, still a blabber
mouth unsurprisingly . Good thing I still remember what A.B. Patrick
Dondonilla's on how to deal with him,
In other
matters
It is
confirmed that after this port in south Carolina, the next port will be in
Houston Texas , and of course the port in Houston will be loading cargo then
after that somewhere to Ecuador and will be transiting via Panama Canal. From
what I heard the transit time from Houston to Panama will take at least 10
day's time.
