Well if your reading this there is a fair chance that you possess the essential document to venture out into the blue, the Continuous Discharge Certificate (CDC)  commonly known as the Seaman book—your license to work, your identification as a  sea dog and a  prerequisite for your bread and butter. We are sucked into this pipeline as cadets and trainees and pumped out as Captains or Chief Engineers (mostly) but during this entire quest at sea what holds with you thick and thin is your Seaman book. So to add another feather to the cap, why not glorify this paper of a booklet with some … [Read more...]