And I’m pretty stressed out about it. I’m in California, and I need to get my son back to Utah. Nothing too hard about that, right? Except for the fact that it’s been snowing like crazy all over the west this week! I thought a five hour window between when I got to Utah on [...]
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Dec 20
Shipyard ‘09 and Positioning South
In the month of November every year the ship that I work on comes to Alameda, California in the San Francisco Bay Area to get some work done and go through a Coast Guard inspection. The whole process is really quite chaotic, because this is one of few opportunities to do work on the ship [...]
Dec 19
Just got back from Costa Rica
Well, as I said before, my ship the National Geographic Sea Lion has been switched over to spending the winter months in Costa Rica and Panama. I’ve officially handed over the keys to my replacement on that boat and am headed for the Chief Position on it’s sister ship, the National Geographic Sea Bird. I’m [...]
Sep 24
Fisherman’s Terminal, Seattle, WA
Having a good time up here in Seattle, going to STCW class and doing some work on the boat. Below is a picture of the forward CAT generator all tore up. It’s sure going to be nice when she’s all fixed up!
Class has been going good. I spent monday with 10 guys from the show [...]
