Sailing Watch

This past week has been a real challenge. The ship has left Portonovi, Montenegro and sailed across the Mediterranean to Limassol, Cyprus. The journey took five days!

During this time, I had my first week of watch. This is when I keep an eye on all that's happening in the engine room, recording what the machine's do and making sure that everything is under control. Watch-keepers (that's me) do this for 8 hour shifts for seven days, but because this sail we lacked sufficient numbers of engineers, we had a more 'interesting schedule'.

While Logos Hope was at sea, my schedule was 4am - 8am, 4pm - 8pm. Four hours on, eight hours off. As you could imagine, pretty exhausting.

To compound the challenge, for a couple of days we were sailing in stormy weather, so most of the people onboard were feeling seasick (present included). People said this was the most difficult sail in a long time.

But actually, despite the circumstances, I really learnt a lot during my watch! The ship made it to Cyprus on Friday evening, and is now open to the public!

I'm really proud of how the watch-keepers worked together during this time, and I think we're better off for it after surviving such a temperamental first watch.