#deckofficer

Hi everyone,

It’s now 29 days until I leave my home on the Island of Jersey to begin my Deck Officer Cadetship at the City of Glasgow College.

I thought I would start a blog to share my experiences with everyone and hopefully inspire others to follow the route that I’m taking. Also thanks to sunsetoutatsea for giving me the idea to do this - go and check out her blog as well, I’m sure you will enjoy it.

A bit about me:

I’ve lived in Jersey my whole life and always loved being on the sea, whether that was going fishing with my grandad, working as a watersports instructor, volunteering as a Sea Scout Leader or just going to the beach to relax. For a while I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life until 2017 when I met a former Captain who had been to sea and seen a lot of the world. It sounded fascinating and so with his support and encouragement I began pursuing a career as a Deck Officer - you know who you are so if you are reading this then I would like to say a massive thank you to you.

Being from Jersey rather limits my options due to government funding so there were only two companies available to sponsor me: Trinity House (managed by Chiltern Maritime) and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. I applied to both and after a successful interview with Chiltern and Trinity House, I was delighted to be told that they would like to offer me a cadetship. I will write more about my interview and what’s happened since in the next post as I’m aware this is getting quite long now.

Photo here is the sunset from being out on the RIB earlier this month. The two vessels in the photo are MV Arrow (left side) and a motorcruiser (right side). There was a great sized wake to jump the RIB over coming from the back of the motorcruiser and I got the RIB completely out the water from it.

Safe sailing,

There have been some changes since I last posted on here.

The majority of my class have now been moved onto online learning for Phase 3 and so won’t be going to sea until next year now. This has some benefits and some drawbacks.

I am staying on the original course layout and waiting to go to sea although I am working in the maritime operations centre at Jersey Coastguard with the VTS officers. This is giving me good experience in the maritime field and seeing shipping operations from a shore based view point. We are working 4 days on, 4 days off and not mixing with the other team to help with preventing the spread of COVID-19.

The work is really diverse and no two days are the same. There is always something new happening that we have to deal with. I will make a page to talk about this as well

As part of my time there, I got the opportunity to go onboard the Ports of Jersey tug boat Duke of Normandy to Portland for 13 days to do ploughing of the sea bed inside the harbour. I will talk more about this on the Duke of Normandy page.

Safe sailing,

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