Dear All,
Here a short blog to let you know that I am back in the groove. My vacation is over and the cruising life is calling again. For the last week I have been in the Seattle office putting the finishing touches to my activities for the coming period.
About Seattle there is not much to blog, apart from the fact that it has been raining here every day, which is not nice, on the other hand it makes it less cold. Those up in the mountains are complaing there is not enough snow for the ski-ing. But in everybodies life some rain must fall; but it just seems that a lot of it is falling in Seattle at the moment.
My travelling days are starting again and the plan is to visit three ships in the coming three months. Partly for training new officers , partly for offering my expertise for executing drills on board and for the rest enhancing the knowledge present.
This means that I will be blogging about adventures in the North, South, East and West Caribbean, followed in April by some Mediterannean excitements. Ships involved will be Ryndam, Noordam and the Amsterdam.
The first part will start on sunday when I join the Ryndam in Tampa for 3 weeks. The first week is a seven day Western Carib cruise, followed by a 14 day around Carribean voyage.
I have also started to upload some more material and there is now a biography of Captain Scriwanek added to Captains from the Past and the history of the Cargo ship Burgerdyk which links in to Scriwanek as he was the captain when the ship was torpedoed.
Next blog will be uploaded on Monday 9 Feb.
Sincerely,
Captain Albert
February 6, 2015 at 7:25 pm
Captain, so glad you are back! Can’t wait for new blogs!
February 7, 2015 at 4:52 pm
We were with you and Lesley on the 2010 Amazon Explorer adventure and have been receiving your blogs via email ever since. We are so pleased to hear that we will be meeting up with you again on Feb. 15 when we join you on the Ryndam. We are also hoping that Mark Rowden will be our Captain again this cruise. We were with him on the Midnight Sun and Baltic aboard the Ryndam this past June/July. See you soon 🙂
February 7, 2015 at 5:33 pm
I hope you had a wonderful vacation but you have been missed. I am very glad that you are back.
February 7, 2015 at 5:43 pm
Good to ‘see’ you again, Captain! I might add …. and in Vancouver! …. that is, ‘some rain must fall’.
Will follow the Caribbean experiences. Hope you’ll do the Orient some time next 🙂
February 7, 2015 at 6:10 pm
It is good to see you back on the blog! 🙂
I hope you had a good, relaxing vacation. I also hope that the time in Seattle has given you a chance to study the local beers and wines in detail so that you can continue the efforts to study the local cultures (and also decide which port has the best beer).
As for the rain, I suppose it is better than the usual frosty chill (and very dry air and air inversions (fog)), but the skier’s problem in winter is also the water supply problem in summer. Also, it leads to an early daffodil and tulip season (whether that is good or bad depends if you plan to see them in bloom).
February 7, 2015 at 11:15 pm
Good to see you’re back and looking forward as always to your daily blog.
February 8, 2015 at 4:31 am
Welcome back, I have missed your interesting Blogs, the new ones look interesting Ports and Ships,
Best wishes
Robina
February 9, 2015 at 7:39 am
Hi Capt Albert,
So pleased to have you back again. Looking forward to the future blogs which I find most interesting especially the background information that you give about life onboard all accompanied with great photographs.
Looking forward to your first blog from the high seas.
Best regards
Ted Dixon