September
15, 2018 Saturday
Anchorage
in Perth Harbor, Australia
Based
on the updated info I heard, this ships arrival will be berthing upon arrival.
But on the last minute I was surprised that it turns out to be on anchorage. I
was called by around 5 am in the morning by bosun and told that we were going
to pay out anchor.
On
what I saw the anchor given on this particular spot on Perth harbor Australia
was 10 shackles.
Since
it was a sudden change even the daily maintenance work from preparation of
berthing was changed to the usual maintenance.
Currently
the maintenance work involves, greasing of the provision crane wires on the
right side of the ship. Unfortunately A.B. "roderick" who was
assigned working on it got scared because of the height and said that it was
too dangerous to work on that kind distance. So in a couple of minutes , we
staged a platform for it to be worked on (scaffolding). Took two days to
totally finish the job at the crane from greasing the wires to painting the
whole machine in full coat.
In
other matters
Being
in the case that this ship has arrived at Australia, it was announced on the
morning tool box talk that laundry will be closed for the time being until
berthing, they reasoned out that they have to control the "Grey
water" issue because of Australia's stiff environmental policy.
As
a result to this , I went to resolve on this problem by washing my clothes in
the bathroom and have to hang it to dry out (even the dryer machine is closed
as well, reasoning that overheating problem might occur). I remember this kind of tactic I used , way
back during my time in "Eagle Boston" were I had to wash them and
hang them over inside my cabin , but back then the problem was on the ship
itself because of faulty equipment , Here It's the rules these uwak's imposed.
Anyway
its fine with me , I had been in that kind of situation before and I know how
to deal with it. Besides reasoning out on these uwak's are totally impossible,
the only thing that I had to do is deal with it and get around on the
situation.
