Early start today, bridge duty on the SS Failboat. Quite a tedious task, sit in a quiet room for a couple of hours and look as the ships system monitors. Though only one of the six actually applies to me.
Seems that all the crew members of the SS Failboat need to spend time in here, well nearly all. The senior captains seem not too. I think this is probably my fifth time on duty and as with before I managed to get a bit of a kip. Easily done as the room is much quieter than the rest of the vessel.
The galley was a little shite this morning, 4 pieces of brown toast were requested. However as with the current policy of not actually getting stock when at port I find that brown is not on offer. However white bread is available. This took longer to actually prepare due to the galley chef not realizing that toasters can be switched on. So 4 stodgy slices of white later I’m full and ready for the 2nd part of my bridge kip.
Further developments from within the SS Failboat have kept myself and other crew members busy for a while. The Admirals ledger books have been due for replacement. So the Failboat governors have introduced a new ledger which the team from SS CACKSON have been busy working on.
Slight teething troubles with this new ledger
- Some crew cannot open the ledger
- Some crew once they have managed to open this ledger are noticing all the pages are missing.
- Some people are noticing some pages are missing
Only slight problems though. It has saved the Admiralty a vast amount of money though. However we can no longer dock into certain ports due to these problems. I’m sure these minor issues will be sorted soon, without the need to those ports to involve the services of SS Smallclaimscourt.
Anyway, as this has been a major ‘suck’cess for the crew from SS CACKSON we will not be critical of their decision to hold a large party when their voyage was complete. Despite large numbers of people from SS SHATONSUPPORTSTAFF not turning up.
Anyway, must dash almost time for me to move away from the bridge and continue to work in engine room.
Yours,
SS FAILBOAT crew member