I think, at the next day I managed to use the same scale 2x. Progress auf 5 hours
in the morning I feel a bit better than it looks here
After breakfast, I came to the upper deck, to the central ship’s office, to wait for someone to go on tour on upper deck (outside).
The officer gave me a workman’s suit, I
had brought the helmet, gloves and ear protection from the cabin and so I dressed up. He suggested that during waiting time, I could click through the pages of the different systems on screen. I looked at the water system, the tanks, the generators etc.
Fuel with less Sulfur is used in most ports in near the coasts but there is more than 30x more of the normal, dirty fuel.
Then came the chief engineer and was prepared to visit the engine room with me. First, we went down only one floor to his office with all the control panels.
the engine usually is controlled from the bridge. If that doesn’t work, it can be done in the engine control room or in worst case directly at the machine
He explained that they used cheaper oil in open sea and oil with less sulfur near the ports and that the engine runs with only ~50tons fuel/day at this low speed and up to 4 times more at high speed and/or bad weather.
The generators (2 out of 5 are running normally) also need ~10 tons fuel every day.
It was warm down at the engine, and loud.
So, we didn’t stay long, and I went back to the office. A young Kadett came to the upper deck tour with me.
When we were at the bow,
I wanted to take a picture of the anchor’s chain and him and he said that the last passenger wanted the same.
We looked down to the storage space of the chain
and then the complete way from bow to rear
to watch the “Hecksee” (Heck-See, German for wake, on board of the ferry, (day 097) Harry pronounced it like Hexe = witch).
the rope ladder looks like a leftover from 19, century on this modern ship
if the ship is cleaned with chemicals, the plug has to be put in the hole to prevent them from going into the water.
In general, they try to be more environmentally friendly, but our economical system in all its aspects is far from that. These ships, too
Today, I only could finish two videos, partly due to this excursions and some time at the gym but mainly because I had several very long clips from the gopro. They happen when I forgot to turn of or when I pressed the button to turn of but instead turned on. Some of these videos contain material that I now want to keep and still I try to keep the whole video at least shorter than 10min, better only 3-5min, because I guess they would be too boring.
During dinner, the captain explained to me that coming to the port can be a long procedure and he himself suggested to stay overnight because after all procedures, riding 50km at night would be unpleasant also for Faye and Lulu who would have to wait until very late at night.
In the evening, I read and answered Marvin’s response to my email from yesterday. With the strange keyboard (some letters and signs are hidden to me) and the special program for sending, this took also longer than normal.
But I try to find to a more relaxed attitude, because in the end it is not clear how many people wait for watching all those clips…