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...]
For Every Man at Sea – the most vital adventure checklist
It goes without saying that in the present day shipping scenario every man at sea has endless checklists to fill, follow and comply, but in this rat race of sign on- sign-offs, limitless courses and the never ending exams one scarcely gets the time to fulfill one for himself. A checklist of thing to do; a bucket list for life- after all, you live only once, so it must be to the fullest, right?I feel one should make it a point to have a sorted out bucket list with a timeline of things to do because twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than … [Read more...]
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list
With the six on six off at ports or breaking the monotony of the long voyage syndromes or even just utilising one of the best perks that come for the men of this “cult”. For wise men say, you travel not to go anywhere, but to go-- You travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move! And we are on the move your entire tenure your onboard, and you can be on the move too when your off.After all “world travel” is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to anyone, Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. To Paraphrase Henry Rollins- I beg … [Read more...]