and off again!

We're sailing at 13:00 today... return date... need I say it? unknown!

Crew change is the 25th... and it usually happens on time, so let's hope it will be the case.

The schedule is: go out there, tow a rig, come back next Monday or Tuesday

What might go wrong:

The rig might not be ready to move yet (sounds very complicated and the weather doesn't help one bit). The anchors are somewhat temperamental too and do not like to be rushed or swung around... strong winds and waves make them cranky and uncooperative. So it might take a while to complete that task (not us... the boat crew). We might end up watching tv and playing darts while the poor sailors coax the anchors into a better mood.

There's a storm warning for Wednesday and Thursday that might delay the towing, and bring us back early to port... or give us a serious watery roller-coaster ride... I will try to film it if I can manage to stay in an upright position for more than 5 sec at a time :P

There is an iceberg warning in effect for all of next week.. that monster piece of floating ice, just about the size of Australia (almost), has been under observation for a while... it's coming down the coast of Labrador and was still far away last month, but someone must have given it running (swimming?) shoes cause in the last week it went into hyper drive and is heading straight towards a rig. If it keeps it up, we'll have to haul ass over there and move the rig out of the way while the giant icicle passes by... which should make for interesting visual too...

I like the constant changing of plans.. keeps things interesting :)
It also makes this expression very common : "ye-e-eah... about that..." (followed by: it's changed a bit now)

Speaking of expressions, Newfies have a very strange habit of putting ss everywhere "I says", "we goes"... it's like being surrounded by a bunch of not-so-creepy Gollums :S

Anyway, that's it for now.. might be back online in 2 days or 9... who knows!

Time for the final preps to sail out.... cause that's what we do's and that what we likes! ;)