Journal Entry: November 04, 2016 Friday
Location: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ship never
stayed long on the Fujairah anchorage in UAE, it only stayed for a day just to
do provisioning and bunkering and that’s about it,. Surprisingly the weather in
Fujairah now is beautiful and somewhat cooler than my previous visit.
Definitely very tolerable weather.
After this
ship business is done in Fujairah, it went towards Saudi Arabia for loading of
cargo. This ship stayed there for about three to four days before going to a
port facility nearby.
The loading
operation on Saudi Arabia was real quick , lasted only within at least 12 hours
, apparently because only a limited cargo tanks was loaded and not all. During
my whole 6 hour long shift , I was very busy being ordered around to check the
sounding of the ballast tank. Which meant me having a sounding tape tool all
the time.
Immediately
after my second shift, The whole process of loading was already completed and
went straight ahead on unmooring. The mooring stations have been changed for
some of the crew which includes me, Apparently me and Pump Man Obina are now
assigned on the forward mooring station and were to assist Bosun Rodrigo and
O.S. Mark there , Starting now and onwards.
Earlier I
thought Pump Man Obina was just joking around when he said one time "that
were supposedly to be shifted to forward mooring station" , I never took
his statement seriously and dismissed it as a joke. Now it turns out that it
was for real. Never really liked to be in the forward mooring station to begin
with, and it's been a while since I was there - The work there is always hectic
and more problematic for me in case I needed something compared to being in the
aft mooring station. I was reminded of that distaste when BOSUN keeps bitching
around and lecturing me on what to do and not to do during both mooring and
unmooring time.
