Unlike the rest of the blog entries this week, this one is being posted from Grenada instead of Trinidad. Scott and I caught the 6:00 AM flight out of Port of Spain this morning and arrived back home before 7:00 AM. It's funny that I can consider a boat, in a foreign country, to be home. Perhaps the expression "home…
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Safety at Sea and Social Responsibilities were the two subjects of yesterday's classroom discussions. We covered life rafts and survival equipment in detail, how to make the work areas on a ship safe, and effective communication. Today, our final day on the course, we'll be in the University's pool working with actual life rafts. Let's hope it's another warm, sunny…
You would think that because it really hasn't been all that long since I completed the RYA first aid class that I should breeze through the first aid portion of the STCW course which we did yesterday. The truth is that, even though UTT considers this a basic course, we covered a lot of information. Heather, who taught the classroom…
As promised, day 2 of our STCW 95 course at the University of Trinidad and Tobago was all practical. After getting the class of 11 suited up in complete fire fighting kit (pants, jackets, boots, gloves, helmets), we made our way outside. In spite of the fact that the day was a bit overcast and thus a tad cooler than…
The Theory of Fire was the focus of day one's STCW 95 classwork. We learned about what allows fires to begin and continue burning, as well as how to use the various tools to extinguish them (in theory anyway). Heather, our class instructor, also prepped us for the practical part of the fire fighting which will take place today. I'm…
The RYA Yachtmaster Offshore exam has been successfully completed, fees and photos have been submitted so I assume at some point in the future a nice Certificate of Competence will be mailed to me (to Canada actually). What it won't have on it (yet) is a Commercial Endorsement which would allow me to work as a "Master of yachts of…