December
04, 2018 Tuesday
Jubail
Dana , UAE
The
new chief mate seems to be harmless enough , but yet I have to be on my guard -
after all he has only been here for almost a week and chances are you don’t get
to know a person very well until the 2nd month. For now I'm relieved that the
previous chief mate of this ship will no longer be a problem since he
disembarked a week ago in fujirah, UAE during the "provisioning"
operations
The
ship headed north for the loading port, apparently earlier information I
thought that it should load cargo in Saudi arabia., but now it looks like that
it will load its cargo here in UAE ., just in the far edge area of this
country. It headed north within just a day of travel and this ship lowered its
anchor and awaited for any further instructions from the charterer.
Laundry
was opened on Sundays for The crew to wash those dirty clothes and coveralls.
Honestly I can't really think any good reason on why the use of the laundry
room here is still on schedule - the condenser is already fix during Fujairah
and now there is no more excuse on why it should not be opened for everyday
use. I guess this is usually the
problems if "Uwaks" are in charge of the ship., Can't really think of
any other reasonable reasons why this is still happening.
It
was already almost noon when I finished on my laundry due to having a very long
queue in the washing machine., when suddenly I heard from O.S. "Romy"
passing by that within a few hours., a pilot will be coming for the ship .
Specifically at 2pm. Immediately on the first minute when I heard it, I was in
disbelief and that it was really a bad timing for the notice., Both my clothes
and working coveralls was still wet and just fresh out from the washing machine
- I have no dress to wear for work if
the pilot immediately comes. I came to my senses that I still have two hours
left and hurriedly jammed all my clothes in the dryer machine. It never
mattered to me if this was a working coveralls or my regular clothes - I just
needed it to be dried ASAP.
After
20 minutes my clothes was almost dry and had to take it out of the drier
hurriedly.
Pilot
came by at around 2pm as what they said, along with the mooring master for the
SBM kind of mooring.
From
all the mooring operation that came and went all this time, "SBM"
kind of mooring is the most easiest kind. Basically the ship will be just tied
up to a buoy sitting in the middle of the ocean and from that, the buoy there
has some huge rubber hose attach to it (as in HUGE , larger than a human ) and
from there they're going to connect that on the ship's cargo pipes to load
cargo - voila "SBM" operation finished ! Plus there's less effort
made because it doesn’t require a lot of folks on mooring.
The
following day , the loading of cargo was immediately finished and this ship
soon set sail bound back to go to kwinana, Australia . Took us a whole day after that in securing
all the equipment that was used for the cargo operation and mooring operations.
