At sea finally!

Yes, just as it says, we finally went out yesterday evening around 22:45 from Rostock.

And I did a little stupid mistake, when we started preparing to leave, I had a bit too much cloth on, so after we took the Gangway and the lines... I where kinda soaked wet.

On our way out, we passed one big box of luxery, a cruise ship.... hah, we looked like one of theire lifeboats compared in sieze.

But when we got out, and well on our way towards the Windturbine field, I couldn't stop noticing with the officer on watch.... what a beautiful weather it was.

As I said countless times now a day, it might be a work away from home, and for a month at the time, but beeing home can't beat the viewe though.

But otherwise then that, there aren't really much to tell just yet, we did some excersiezes with some connections to the windturbines, but nothing that included me though.... that will be tomorrow, when we will go out in some of the smaller boats STB7 (Safety Transport boat), sailing technicians from the mothership to the turbines, that's gonna be a very interresting job to do and try out.

But okay, I have to give it to the windturbine field... there are pretty many windturbines.... all in all... 81 turbines.

And I am telling you, the heat today was incediable... some places on the deck we reached 42 degrees heat... toasting.

And tomorrow I will give it a try to see if I can get some videos on here as well.

Signing off.

"The wind in my hair, the salt water in my hair... that's how I like it."

Something is happening

As truely as the title says, something is happening.

okay befoure I start off, I just have to say it out loud... damn those flies are annoying.

So where did I come from.... ah yes, the happening.



To start of with, the first thing I noticed when I came out from my room was, there where new faces everywhere, and not to mention, wauw some friendly people we got onboard, even people who are going to stay, and where just onboard for a day.

A little bit unfortunat some of them only speaks German, but okay, it is after all Germany we are in, so I guess there is no excuses, Good thing my German language.... is far from flawless.... But I can mannage small talks and so on, and guide people from the reception.... all in all... long and detailed conventation will be a problem....

But anyways... most of the good guest and upcoming colleagues do speak English though, it is after all a required language to speak while we do operations on the deck.

But what a start on the day, and it suddenly helped alot too that one of the girls that got onboard wanted to make an intrudoction, and ended up in have a good long talk on 30 min.  So what a great start of the day.

No that picture ain't from today, Haven't taken any photoes lately, nothing new to show.... so here's and old one... or... it's from last trip though, and heres another one.

It's a picture from one of the old fields.... or rather... the first Wind turbine field we where in.

Oh yes... completly forgot to tell, but from today of, there is only small 7 days to go, and I will be well on my way home.

And hopefully, when I get home, the next kind of ship I will write from is one of the Danish National Homeguard ships.... or from my home otherwise, I don't really inten to write everyday though, sense a normal everyday is not something new... Ah you know what I mean.

But as far as the plan sounds like, we will finally be headed out at sea tomorrow evening, hopefully earlier.... but worst case, not even tomorrow.

But what I got told is that as soon as we get out, we will conduct excersices with all the boats and wind turbines... all in all... hopefully lots of good pictures.

Now I will just sit here and enjoy the "Top 20 Funniest" on television.

Signing off.

"Red sky in morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight”

New week, new challenges in Germany

So here the thing...

First of all, I'm actuelly writing while it's day right now, which is... the same, just with light outsite of the window. So yeah, it's a new week, and monday morning, we already have 5 exoected visitors, primary people that are going to plan the baptism... yes, you guessed right, the ship is brand new, shiped it out in january, and it's still not named anything... It is... but not officially.

Some agents and some people from the company that charters us in, and hopefully.... they will come on my watch, so I atleast can see if I can remamber how to sign people in and out.... it's been a long time since last time we had some guest onboard.

14:00 hours today, we will have a firedrill, sinse it is... well... It's not, but we do have passengers onboard.... or how to call them, they work.... WE GOT PEOPLE ONBOARD... there we go. So we need to have regulary drills, everything from, Man over board to Firedrills.

Ah, there is a little bit of info from the night last night.... or not info, just a picture.

One of the luxery we got onboard is, that we do sail with people onboard, not like a cruise or passener ship, but still like it, so all the chairs in the living rooms and in every room, we got... as good as it sounds, stressless charis. Despite just beeing a chair... damn they are good to sit in, if you are a bit tired when you sit in one of those chairs, you are pretty sure to fall asleep.

And not to mention the 2 cinemas we have onboard as well... gorgeous chairs you almost can lay down in, and good big screens with good sorround sounders as well... almost like a real cinema, all we needed is the popcorn machine.

But beeing a new ship and lots of good stuff... there are still some small things that just.... goes on a persons nerve in a funny way.

But the ship is still a good ship, and for that matter, it's my home away from home. Or rather the other way around, I actuelly spent more nights and days on this ship then in my own home.

And I am not going to show any pictures of my own room.... it's not becuse it's messy... for once it's not, but becuse it's.... a bit.... ehhm, how to put it.... tiny. I do have a big bed, like 2.20 meters long, a TV, the smooth chair, my own toilet with a bath, and a small table.... that should cover must of it... oh and a closet, where the right site of it is mine and the left is the other person who I share my room with, while I'm home.

Signing off.

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

Weekend of waiting

And thats basicly it.... All we do is just waiting for the charter to arrive. All we can do all day long... well in my case, I sit in the ISPS, but there are some small repairs here and there, create new stuff... you know, maintenance and event things.

But 1 thing I simply just did not expect today... you see, the first thing you get into when you walk onboard this ship is the ISPS guard (Me) so there is a gangway from the ship to the harbor... but back to what I did not expect... when I went out on the gangway, I saw something i wasn't expecting, which concluded I didn't walk out on the gangway.... a 12 tons heavy boat above.

It turned out that there where maintenance on the big davit we have onboard.

But yeah... I do experince alot, but standing under a boat on that size was not how I expected to start my day off.

The summer is still here, however while the day went on, and late, I would say that the summer is on a hold... it's actuelly rather cold outsite right now.

But right here and now, what my night goes on with is, watching Ghost Adventures on Canal 9. and I know it's just on television and so on, and I am pretty skeptical when it comes to ghost and stuff like that, I don't belive it really... and yet a little bit.

But alot of what they capture and see, is pretty creepy, and gives me gooseflesh.

I'm gonna sit here and watch yet another episode of Ghost Adventures.

Signing off. 

"Death is that state where one lives only in the memory of others, which is why it is not an end.

 No goodbyes-- just good memories."

Yup, the summer is here

25 degrees in the shadow... and even more exposed to the sun.... I decided to walk my way to the Scanlines Boarder shop today, with one of the other crew members.

I didn't take a jacket on... good choice.... but I did have a black T-shirt on... bad choice.... wauw the sun was hot, you could almost feel the t-shirt shrink on my body becuse of the heat.

But I have to say it... why is there no direct way from the ferries and harbor to the boardershop... something that would take 5 min. in a straight line... ended up taking 25 min.

But it was totally worth the walk, there where lots of good offers.

I even got "Risen" for almost nothing compared to many other places... and I sure have a weakness for those, so I will probebly have a stomach paine the next couple of days.

And if the way to the Boarder shop wasn't hot... it surely was on the way back again.

It's even so hot, that we had to open all the doors to get some fresh ait in and out... okay, we do have a great aircondition system, but it doesn't beat fresh air.

Otherwise... nothing great happened today, only another day onboard the ship.

Well... I did start on making numbers in one of the storage areas, for the shelf sections.

So think about it.... drawing and painting numbers in Stencil that are 1.5 meters high... looks kinda awesome.

But yes, I am back to no person coming on or offboard on my watch... so I didn't really see anything shiny today.

But yup, here I am... once again, sitting here in the ISPS as the only person onboard awake for the next 4 hours... and the most stupid thing is, that we spent like 80% of this trip in harbor.... 

"A ship in harbor is a safe ship, but that's not what ships are built for"

Signing off. 

"Behind every strong sailor there is an even stronger family who stands by them, supports them, and loves them with all their heart."

The summer has arrived!

As the title says... the summer has come... and I mean it for real... for once.

Start of the day.

Woke up 1 hour too early... okay it was nothing more then I just went over to the other site and sleept again... but Damn, my mouth was dry, good thing we got plenty of bottles of water onboard, I always have atleast 3 bottle of water at the end of my bed.

But my breakfast... which is Lunch according to the time, but still my breakfast, we got moussaka... with chili in it... and a hell alot of cheese... and I mean alot.... like 50% cheese 40% meat and 10% chili.... yeah... it was a strong one.... But... Soooo... Delicious.

But yeah... my day stated off once again with the 4 hour watch duty in the ISPS, and for once, there where actuelly something happening today, 4 people left the ship... thats it,

The weather was perfect.

So as soon as I got releaved from the ISPS, i started greasing all the moving parts on the deck, and it was still so hot, that I simply just couldn't work with my jacket on, so for the first time this year, I was working on the deck, outsite... only with a t-shirt on my upper body... Wauw I waited so long for that.

And no... I just couldn't stop my self from taking some more pictures of the great viewe of Rostock.

But yeah... One of the ships main funciton is to be a platform for other companies... put it in this way, a Hotel ship, as a working platform.

So it is pretty important that the companies that charters them self in, can get all of their stuff onboard, and to that, we have our Main deck... just a big hugh room, where we can take off the roof, and a crane can lower containers in to the room, and now when we have an empty ship, I could finally get a picture of how it looks like... empty, here ya go.

But as funny as it is... I actuelly dont have a picture of the main deck with containers... We'll get to that later, probebly next week, when they will arrive.

Signing off. Credits to all the readers.

First day with no sleep in Germany

Okay okay... no sleep is a bit of a overshot.

But a full night sleep... far from, more like.... 2 hours of sleep.

What happened was, ysterday evening, we where told to move to some diffrent rooms, becuse there where some work to be done up over the roof of the room.... but the thing is, they kinda moved us directly under where they where suppose to work.

Always something that they didn't have to pull me out of my room, but still.... when they started hammering, drilling and you name it, anything that is needed to lift up a 4 tons heavy davit 30 cm.

So I kinda woke up when they started working 07:00 in the morning... where I was suppose to sleep... so yeah, 3 hours of sleep it was. and damn, what a mess I came out to when I walked out of the door.

And not to mention the smell of.... cooked paint and other stuff, so what my breakfest was... was 2 pills against headache.

BUT HEY!!! Enough of this negative stuff, no one can get anything good out of that... The best thing of all of this, that they miscalculated where they should work is, that I moved back to my own room again.

And the watch, was more silent the usell, not a singel person wanted to get onboard or off the ship when I where on duty... must be a sign... or not.

So in the mean time while nothing was happening... I started feeling a strange vibration, you know, just like you got a hugh bass playing silently in the background and sends out vibration... only thing is just.... There are no bass around me... so what could it be? I went outsite... to find this heavy big boat manuvering in...

And it's called "Peter Pan" And it's not flying very well...

So it was no wonder why the ship I am on was moving around... becuse that big boat surely moved alot of water.

But as Ironic as it sounds... as soon as I got releaved of watch... 3 guys wanted to leave the ship... so yeah.

So yeah... I'm sitting here once again on my post as the ISPS, and what better thing are there to do then write here on my blog.

But Can't write all 4 hours I'm sitting here... otherwise it would probebly get.... pretty boring reading me writing stuff I just thought of.

Signing off. 

Imperium, The sun never sets.

Germany in sight!

Belive it or not, despite the detour north of Denmark instead of through Germany, we are finally here in Rostock, safely at shore in the industrial harbor.

It's a whole new world we bascily are getting to, the whole night when we went through the Great Belt, there where so many ships and so much traffic.... okay, it is the normal traffic, but compared to where I uselly are working, we are lucky to see a ship once a week.

The first... well... larger ship we saw... well... largest more likely, was one of the great Triple-E Maersk ship:

And Yes... the ship I am on, is simply nothing compared to that big blue whale, we could... be on it like 4 times atleast.

But it was far from the only life we saw out here... the first big sign on that we where close to Rostock, was the Scandlines ferry, that has a route called "Gedser-Rostock"... Try to imagine it, that ferry is older then me, and still doing her service at tip top!

But just as we where preparing the ship for arrival to harbor, we saw something you uselly don't see everyday at the German and Danish Boarders, and no, I am not kidding at all... A Russian ship, and it was pretty big, just laying outsite of the harbor.... luring... but it was a pretty ship, it is after all the Russian trainee ship "Sedov" what a beautiful sight to see that ship on our way in.

And as far I know, it is still the worlds largest sailing trainee ship in function today

When we got to the boarder of the harbor... well, I never feelt that populare before, there where people everywhere and on both sites of the harbor, taking pictures of our ship... probebly becuse of the red color and funny bow we have.

But wauw, I have to give it to the Germans, what a beautifull city you go into.

But they surely don't call it an industrial harbor for no reasons... when we went just a bit futhere into the harbor... the shiney city kinda.... became factories and more.

Hugh and lots of space in this magnificient harbor, I have to give the Germans that.... but then again... WHY!!! out of all places, why do we have to be a place where there are barely space enough becuse of a.... crane....

But wauw alot of officials guest we had pretty quickly when we arrived... first we had 5 police officers onboard... and then customes.... and wauw they must had have a bad day those guys from custome. Bad mood when they got onboard.... good mood when they left again... thats the pure prove of that you get a happy face onboard this ship. 

But there are some bad news though.... despite beeing a great day, there is always something on the down site.... I had to move out of my tiny room... to a much larger room... which I don't complain about at all... but I have to move back... as soon as the blacksmiths are done refitting the davits on the ship. It was a bit... too low.

But something tells me that the next couple of days are going to be good with lots of work hopefully.... instead of sitting all day long again here at the ISPS... which I am currently doing right now... sense we are after all in harbor again.

Signing off. While the wind blows and the air is hot.

From West coast to East Coast

As I told on my previous blog, I had no idea of when I would be able to write a blog again.

But now was the time.

Through the whole night and the day today, we have been on the move, from Esbjerg, to the northest part of Denmark, Skagen, to yet again go South through the Great Belt.

We did not go through the Kieler Channal, due to some... slight changes.

But One thing the officer on watch, and me agreed pretty quickly on when we where on duty in the middle of the night was... We might be away for 1 month from our loved ones, family, friends and everything... But the viewe is stunning though.

 

The first picture above is taken in the middle of the night, the big white sunny like is not the sun, but the moon, and it was stunning how beautiful it was.

The other one below the top one is only taken 2 hours later in the other direction. 03:30 in the morning, and despite we aren't that North, it still gets light pretty early... and seemlesly never completly dark.

The weather was not completly on our site on our way up North, we had the waves in on our Port site all the way, untill we reach Skagen, the waves seemed to... disappear.

The work today was a bit diffrent then it used to for once.

Today I did not sit the whole day long on that chair in the ISPS onboard, no, today I was working on the deck, there where some painting to be done, and some boat checks... Even a little trip in one of our smaller boats in the sea, to get some fresh air and some salt water on my face.

To be free.

So our estimated time of arrival to Rostcok is around 17:00 tomorrow evening hopefully, where we can finally meet the ones we are working for, and get to work with the sole purpose this ship I work on is meanth to.

Signing off...