New England Waterman

It was a nice morning this morning, came on watch with the boat already tied up in flotation, and it was looking like a good day to get a little maintenance done. Seeing as we don’t have a cook on right now, and one of the AB’s does a knock up job in the galley I decided to go take his place doing some grinding on the side of the boat so he could cook us lunch again today. Solid plan right? I proceeded to borrow a second grinder from the engine room, to be more efficient you know? Then when my self and one of the other deckhands were almost done, I for some unknown reason placed the grinder on the cap rail…….and then after I brushed off the spot I was going to next I reached for the grinder and knocked it off of the cap rail and into the water.
And today started so well……….

A couple minutes into my watch this morning one of the engineers told me to come down on the bow and check something out. When I got down there were a couple guys leaning over the rail and I figured it was especially bright phosphorescences. What I saw was that and even better, we had a group of dolphins in the bow wave and they were ghostly green speckled outlines from the phosphorescence, the closest thing I can image them is almost like comets, complete with glowing green trails merging into our bright blue and green bow wave. Every time they jumped there was a resulting shower of green and blue points of light, like a handful of stars just tossed into the sky. I’ve got to say it was one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time.
We had a pretty nice sunrise coming in the Halliburton slip as well….

Well here it is finally, I think it’s most of the people I missed and have been made aware of. I have been thinking about doing a master list of people on a separate page, anyone want to give some feedback on that? Per usual, if I’ve missed someone just let me know.

Glenn Anderson is now also on the HOS Silver Arrow

Jordan Stopyra, HOS Silver Star

Andrew Friend, HOS Shooting Star

Eric Turchi, Andrea Chouest