1 tank on Port side I saw our Cook on deck. What the foock!!?? Our Cook on deck! I never seen this happen before.
when I was down in the tank.
enter Kaliningradskiy Morskoy Kanal at arrival. Maybe we can go ashore tomorrow afternoon again.
I went straight from bed to my shower , nice with 15 minutes in a hot shower in the morning. I 
went straight from the shower to the fo'c's'le ( of course I got dressed after the shower) and the mooring operation.
Engineer's cabin and he was hiding behind the curtain while preparing to go ashore, we were 
surprised to learn that he was suffering from a severe agoraphobia
people taking pictures.
by now. On all the ships I'm on it don't take long before everyone starts to say Miljarder as I do it: Miiiilljaaarrrrdeeeer
the Aladdin whistle, so no, I was not surprised that everyone was taking pictures making web pages.
Floyd CD for him so I went in to the record shop while they were waiting for me outside.
new love. Chief Engineer dropped us outside and then he returned to the ship.
ashore next time again.
I could pay the CDs. I had to pay 5040 Russian Scooby dollars for the CDs.
arrived in Kaliningrad and they said goodbye to each other and there was not one single dry eye to be seen.
But when Captain relieved me after lunch so I could go and inspect DB 2 P/S I got a pleasant surprise. When I put my new belt (I bought a new belt in Kaliningrad yesterday) in my trousers it was too small for the trousers. It fitted me but, I tried it on when I bought it, there were no more belt when I should thread the belt through the last belt loop on the trousers. I had to pucker my trousers in order to get the belt on.
told me that our jetty should be available around 8 o'clock in the morning.
Slite, Sweden on the way from Kaliningrad to Porvoo.
And they were not even embarrassed telling me that these 2 wasn't good enough when we had to lift one dead drunk Captain ashore 2 weeks ago 
me it is good. We had a good time and everything was working good. And I never had to spend time carrying him around the ship on a stretcher.
off signers left there was a band playing on the poop deck. And when the on signers arrived it was gloomy atmosphere. And of course you understand that I mean the mood of the off and on signers, not the crew onboard.
off with party whistles and a band playing. Well, some people are best seen off the ships. But generally speaking, it's nice people working on ships. I hope that was diplomatic enough.
start? The reason is to prevent over flow of the tanks. Surprise!!
the cargo to come out of the PV valves.
sleep tomorrow. This is the time of the year when the strawberries and the new potato is ripe and they sell 
opportunity to inspect our ballast tanks DB 3 P/S while waiting. I even had time for a quick shower before departure.
bad music from the MP3 collections I bought. The music went straight to the garbage bin.
Presley. Oh yes! A real dream comes through ending up on watch with a guy with a music collection like that.
During the afternoon we got information that our jetty is occupied by M/T Palva and they expect us to go alongside 23:30 tonight. We have ETA to Porvoo pilot 1835 so that means that we have to drop anchor at arrival.
We had just dropped our anchor when I came on my night watch. Latest news about M/T Palva was
that she's leaving around 11 o'clock in the evening. I went down to my cabin to get a few Diet drinks and I talked away 1 hour of my watch with 2nd Officer and Captain.
It was a nice evening, the sun managed to break through all the rain clouds and we enjoyed our Diet drinks.
When they left me alone on the bridge I had time to send my e-mails. Among
others there was an e-mail from my friend with a 600kb picture attached.
Yeah, bring it on!! I'm connected with my mobile phone and I just love those big attachments.
Well, I could see that they were spending time around the swimming pool, but not where and when.
I had time to update and upload my web page before going along side. Next update will be next time returning to Finland if I can't get my GPRS to work with my Russian SIM card.
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Helsinki VTS called me on the VHF radio and told me that our pilot will be onboard at 23:00. We will have our engine running by then and if there are no delays with M/T Palva we can start heaving our anchor by then.
Our Pilot came onboard at 21:45 but we had to wait for M/T Palva to be ready before we could start to heave up our anchor. While waiting we could see some action over at the jetty. But it was a ship leaving from another jetty.
Well, at 23:20 we had our anchor up and we gave
30 minutes notice to the crew for mooring. They need time to wake up and to drink a cup of coffee before they should start to work. I was relieved by 2nd Officer just before midnight and before going to my cabin I had time to take a picture of the crew.
Our mooring team on deck just after midnight
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Sunday 26th of June 2005 and we completed discharging at 09:25 and we left Porvoo 10 minutes after 10 o'clock. We had planned for a fire drill, lifeboat muster and an oil spill drill in the 
afternoon. At 15:15 the fire alarm went off and we mustered at the fire station on the poop deck.
The scenario was a leaking manifold with a small fire. One AB had tried to extinguish the fire with a portable fire extinguisher. He had felt and broke one of his legs and could not move out from the area. We should send in 2 smoke divers to rescue him.
We could not hold the fire drill due to technical problem and we returned to the bridge and we held a lifeboat muster. 2nd Officer interrogated us about our tasks in the lifeboat and when he was ready we held an ISM meeting. I went down to my cabin after the drill. We had received new videos in Porvoo and I turned on a new Swedish movie.
Life boat muster on the bridge
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Monday 27th of June 2005 and we started the day with a fire drill. Well, we started at 08:30 so I had time for a quick cuppa before we started. It's nice to start your day with tea and flaxseed. It was the same scenario as yesterday. One injured AB at the manifold. He had broken his leg when trying to extinguish a fire at the manifold.
Our smoke divers worked their way to the manifold behind a cooling shield of water. When reaching the injured AB they started the foam monitor and they returned with the injured AB.
Back in safety our Paramedics (Cook and Engine Apprentice) was waiting. They put our injured AB in a stretcher and they brought him to our hospital where 2nd Officer (Ships Doctor) treated him with oxygen. We completed the drill and all the equipment was returned to their places.
  Fire fighters ready to attack the fire
 Fire fighters ready to attack the fire
 Fire fighters ready to attack the fire
 Fire fighters attacking the fire
 Fire fighters have saved the AB and are going back
 Fire fighters have saved the AB and are going back
 Fire fighters have saved the AB and are going back
  The AB is back in safety and the Fire Fighters have to attack the fire
 Medical team take care of the AB
 Medical team take care of the AB
 AB in safety and the fire fighters return to extinguish the fire
 AB in safety and the fire fighters return to extinguish the fire
 AB in safety and the fire fighters return to extinguish the fire
 Fire is out
 Drill is over
 Follow-up discussion on poop deck
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The air bottles for the smoke divers had to be refilled and the firemen's out fits had to be dried.
They were all wet from the water used for the cooling shield.
I was soon back on the bridge for my watch. I put on a new kettle and soon I had a hot cup of tea in my hand. I was hungry after all the action and it was long time until lunch and my salad. I had a “flaxseed” surprise, but it didn't helped me very much.
Well, as I use to say “You have to suffer if you want to look good.”
I called Baltiysk Traffic 12 o'clock to give them our 2 hour notice. They told me that we will get our pilot at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. We reduced speed a little to be at the breakwaters at 3 o'clock. 30 minutes later they called me and they told me that we would get our pilot at 16:00. We made a circle just outside the anchorage at dead slow ahead. Then we steered towards the breakwater and the pilot boarding area at slow speed. We had all fast at jetty #4 in Kaliningrad when I came on my night watch and we started to load at 20:35.
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He is drinking a lot of Diet Drinks and he force me to join him
He is drinking a lot of Diet Drinks and I try to give up
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Tuesday 28th of June 2005 and we were waiting for our Surveyor when I came on my morning watch. We had completed loading at 06:25. Shipper, Pilot and Immigration came onboard at 09:55, but no sign of the Surveyor. He came onboard after some 10 minutes and we were ready to leave Kaliningrad at 10:35 and we left quarter to 11.
When we came out from Kaliningradskiy Morskoy Kanal it was blowing force 6/7 from NW and it was rough sea. Well, a boring day became a boring evening and it was time
to go on my night watch. The sun was shining and the wind was gone (with the wind). We were rolling slightly for the swell, but not enough to annoy us.
Our Captain came sneaking up on me with two
ice cold diet drinks. I will call it diet drinks from now on until I receive my sponsorship money.
But things have gone out of hand since we got this Captain onboard. I'm up from 1 to 6 diet drinks per day and we have agreed that we will not drink any diet drinks before lunch time.
We made an inventory of our diet drink stock a few days ago. We had about 6 cases and we agreed that we would not order any more of the “Liquid death ”. But now our Captain have ordered more of the “Liquid death ” without my knowledge, there are no limits to my disappointment. Here I am trying to give up and Captain just order more and more diet drinks.
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Wednesday 29th of June 2005 and we had 1 hour to go to the first TSS in the Gulf of Finland when I came on my morning watch. After 30 minutes I asked Captain to relieve me for a few minutes. I went down to our scale and I had lost about 3 kilos in 10 day. 10kg/ month now, that's good concerning the midsummer party a few days ago.
I was in a good mood after my adventure on the scale, but things were about to change. I was on
the bridge drinking tea and minding my own business when Captain came with two ice cold diet drinks. It was only 10 o'clock and we hadn't had our lunch yet. It was a little too early according to our agreement.
- What the foock!!!?? We had an agreement.
- It's way past lunch time in India, he said.
- Well, maybe we should have a gin and tonic, I suggested.
I went for a nice walk after my watch and at 17:00 it was time for salad. I sent some e-mails after my dinner and I tried to sleep a little. But I had no success with the sleeping so I continued with my e-mails.
We had all fast at 19:50 so I started with the paper work first thing when coming on my night
watch. When I was ready with the paper work and the Loading Master was ashore I called Captain in his cabin.
- I had enough! I give in my notice.
I asked Captain to send an e-mail to the company with my notice. I had talked with my reliever earlier during the day and we agreed that he should come onboard in september. I would be down to 100kg by then.
I had got other alarming information during the afternoon and I called the company. Captain drunk had called and he told me that we would see each other in August.
- What the 
Something is wrong here, I will stay here until September so how can I see him in August. For sure, I will never set foot on the same ship as him again. Not that I expect him to set hiss foot on a ship again, ever! I talked with him a week ago and he said the same thing.
- See you in August!
Then I thought he was drunk, I mean after what he did, does he really expect to get on board another ship again. And any normal human being would not get on board any ship in order to avoid any disasters. But not this guy. I called the company and the confirmed that they were sending him back on board in August.
And note! This is a company with a long story of drunken Captains. Even making headlines in the news papers. Well, I got angry and everything turned black in front of my eyes.
- If I see this guy 10 meters from the gangway I will stop the ship, pack my bag and I will walk off the ship. I will stop at Neste's office and tell them why, I said and I slammed the phone
Does this sound like a Captain you want to have on board an oil tanker?
Swedish part on top of e-mail: Have told the Agent to throw away the bottle and the narcotics.
Arrange a few bottles for next time arriving to Kaliningrad. We pay the hospital from the company.
Arrange a few bottles for next time arriving to Kaliningrad. We pay the hospital from the company.
Well, to make it short, I had enough of the nuisance now. Oil shipping 2005, I could not believe my ears and I don't want to have any part of this and I will go home. Yeah, I'm an ass hole!
Right? But think like this, I liked the Captain and maybe I'm his only friend trying to prevent him from coming on board again. He can be responsible for a disaster and I'm the only one trying to help him avoiding this. Any thanks for that? No, now I was the ass hole. And did anyone else support me? No, but believe me, when a drunken Captain leaves a disaster behind there will be more people responsible for not preventing this. So I really don't want to be on board a ship with this guy. For sure a drama I can live without.
Trying to hide his diet drink
Yeah, go ahead! Better to have a diet drink knowing what you're doing
than to ram all the narcotics up your arse
than to ram all the narcotics up your arse
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Thursday 30th of June 2005 and the first thing I did after my watch at midnight was to upload my web page. I stayed on the bridge talking with our 2nd Officer while uploading my page. Well, this is the last day in June and next upload will be in July Will we have any Diet Drinks left?
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OK, it has come to my knowledge that we have senior citizens visiting my web page. How hard can it  be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page.
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 Faites vous parlez le français? Pas de problème! Pour arriver à la page suivante faites s'il vous plaît un déclic le bouton “Next” ci-dessus!
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 E ni Svenskar och inte förstår Engelska så ska ni skämmas. J och Björn, med det menar jag inte att alla mina stavfel ska ältas varje gång vi träffas.
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