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Hi everyone,
Just thought I would pop in and say hello.
I am an ex Deck Officer who has recently had old memories revived as my son, who is just finishing his A levels, has just got a sponsorship to do his foundation degree as a deckie starting in the summer. Because we had spoken so extensively about my life at sea he only had one application, one interview and was offered one job. Someone else he knew failed to get past an interview so I stepped in and offered to coach him for his interviews and he got 2 offers out of his next 2 interviews. Because of this I have now become an Ambassador for the MNTB and I will now go into schools locally and help those who want to go away to sea in the MN.
Me? Deck cadet with Ocean Fleets, trained in Liverpool back in the early 80?s at Riversdale College (now a housing estate!) and was lucky to do time on every type of ship except cruise ships. Went to Maersk and eventually left the sea after a bad accident on an anchor handler made me realise that Maersk?s new offshore contract was not tempting enough to take the risks! Most loved my time on Anchor Handlers and the Barber Line Ro-ro?s. I was also lucky enough that my first trip was on a 25 year old Glen Line General Cargo ship with a Stulken derrick, tween decks, latex tanks and eight days in port!
For the last 24 years I have been running my own businesses, as well as running them for other people on occasions, but still have the salt in my blood.
So why am I here? I have seen many comments and questions I might have chipped in on but also have some questions of my own to set things in my own mind right if I am going to help people who want to go away to sea.
So hopefully I will see you around the forums, and just remember for all you suffering a few nerves about going away to sea for the first time and not making a pillock of yourself ? we all did it!
Just thought I would pop in and say hello.
I am an ex Deck Officer who has recently had old memories revived as my son, who is just finishing his A levels, has just got a sponsorship to do his foundation degree as a deckie starting in the summer. Because we had spoken so extensively about my life at sea he only had one application, one interview and was offered one job. Someone else he knew failed to get past an interview so I stepped in and offered to coach him for his interviews and he got 2 offers out of his next 2 interviews. Because of this I have now become an Ambassador for the MNTB and I will now go into schools locally and help those who want to go away to sea in the MN.
Me? Deck cadet with Ocean Fleets, trained in Liverpool back in the early 80?s at Riversdale College (now a housing estate!) and was lucky to do time on every type of ship except cruise ships. Went to Maersk and eventually left the sea after a bad accident on an anchor handler made me realise that Maersk?s new offshore contract was not tempting enough to take the risks! Most loved my time on Anchor Handlers and the Barber Line Ro-ro?s. I was also lucky enough that my first trip was on a 25 year old Glen Line General Cargo ship with a Stulken derrick, tween decks, latex tanks and eight days in port!
For the last 24 years I have been running my own businesses, as well as running them for other people on occasions, but still have the salt in my blood.
So why am I here? I have seen many comments and questions I might have chipped in on but also have some questions of my own to set things in my own mind right if I am going to help people who want to go away to sea.
So hopefully I will see you around the forums, and just remember for all you suffering a few nerves about going away to sea for the first time and not making a pillock of yourself ? we all did it!
Ask away, we'll answer as best we can. We don't pretend to know everything, many of us are only newly qualified or still cadets, though we also have elder and more experienced members too. It's a level playing field here, we believe everyone has something to contribute and all opinions are valid, although we draw the line if things become personal or offensive. As for navigating without sat nav, that happened to me just the other night! S4
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