countdown to go home

If all goes well I'll be home in five days!

The last trip out lasted only 48 hours... the rig tow has been postponed due to weather and since the ice is not quite there yet there was no need for us to hang around.

We came back yesterday morning and have been on one hour stand by since, meaning if the phone rings, we have one hour to get back on the boat and leave... this obviously does not apply to me that much... I have no where to go, except stores and bars... the former are closed after 6pm and drinking alone is not my style, but the guys from around here can go home at night (could someone buy me a plane so I can go home at night too?)

Infos are scarce and changing...
It seems that the tow will now take place on Wednesday, weather pending, and we'll be in port till then.

That causes a slight logistic problem, because crew change is on Wednesday... so we might be off the boat a day early, and the other guys will go for the tow (it takes 14-18h to get to the rig site)
but there's always the possibility of emergency tow because of the elusive iceberg (heard a lot about it, haven't seen it yet) so it could be that we leave now and come back... eventually...

Since things are a bit hazy and there would be no point in making 12 people twiddle their thumbs in the galley while the ship is towing, we unhooked Mill 29 (that's the rov you can see in my pics) today and sent it to the shop. Half of our crew (the 6 guys who live locally and do not require a hotel room) jumped ship and went back home (lucky b!). They'll be doing some improvement work on the rov until crew change day.

The rest of us are still on board and we'll be doing a slip/cut/re-termination of Mill 29's umbilical for the next few days. Which brings me to my next post...