Blog Archive
2023
November
May
Stockholm Sailaway Timelapse – Cruise Ship Ambience [Merchant Navy]
2020
August
March
How to Calculate True Wind Speed [Merchant Navy]
2019
June
A week in the life of a cruise ship – Timelapse [Merchant Navy]
May
Sailing into Kotor, Montenegro aboard a cruise ship Timelapse [Merchant Navy]
Suez Canal Northbound Time-lapse [Merchant Navy]
Venice Sail-away Time Lapse [Merchant Navy]
March
360 Cruise Ship Dry Dock Walkabout [Merchant Navy]
2018
December
Leaving Dry Dock: Re-floating a Cruise Ship [Merchant Navy]
November
Suez Canal Southbound Time-lapse [Merchant Navy]
October
How to perform Plane Sailing Calculations [Merchant Navy]
September
How to Perform Parallel Sailing Calculations [Merchant Navy]
August
How To Use Norie’s Nautical Tables for Azimuth [Merchant Navy]
Cruise Ship Bridge Tour (360 Video) [Merchant Navy]
April
How To Obtain Longitude at Meridian Passage [Merchant Navy]
March
2017
September
How to do Celestial Position Fixing – Stars & Planets – Part 3 [Merchant Navy]
August
How to do Celestial Position Fixing – Stars & Planets – Part 2 [Merchant Navy]
How to do Celestial Position Fixing – Stars & Planets [Merchant Navy]
April
How to do Tidal Calculations for European Secondary Ports [Merchant Navy]
March
How to do Tidal Calculations for European Standard Ports [Merchant Navy]
February
Loading a 150 Person Lifeboat (Video) [Merchant Navy]
How To Use the Admiralty Star Finder [Merchant Navy]
January
How To Calculate Compass Error by Amplitude of the Sun [Merchant Navy]
2016
August
How To Perform Alteration of Course on a Manual Radar Plot [Merchant Navy]
COLREG Tutor [Merchant Navy]
July
Masters Orals Report [Merchant Navy]
June
How To Perform a Manual Radar Plot [Merchant Navy]
May
How To Calculate Compass Error by Azimuth of a Planet [Merchant Navy]
How To Calculate Compass Error by Azimuth of a Star [Merchant Navy]
April
How To Calculate Compass Error by Azimuth of the Sun [Merchant Navy]
How To Calculate Sunrise! [Merchant Navy]
2015
November
My Australia Trip – The Trip Out [Travel]
Disney Dream Mickey Whistle [Merchant Navy]
August
Timelapse Sydney Hotel Room Sunset [Travel]
July
Dolphins “Bow Surfing” in front of Disney Dream [Merchant Navy]
April
Dry Docks – What to expect as a Deck Officer – Hull Painting [Merchant Navy]
March
February
Where have I been… [Merchant Navy]
2014
October
Liferaft Davit Inflation – RFD 12 Person Davit Launch-able [Merchant Navy]
August
İstanbul Boğazı [Merchant Navy]
Çanakkale Boğazı (Time Lapse) [Merchant Navy]
Ice Bucket Challenge [Uncategorized]
May
A quick update on what’s happening [Merchant Navy]
2013
October
Chief Mate Orals (Glasgow) [Merchant Navy]
September
Disneyland Paris [Travel]
Back to Egypt & the Agean [Merchant Navy]
January
A year in review… [Merchant Navy]
2012
April
Another Contract Down [Merchant Navy]
February
Hawaii & Las Vegas [Travel]
January
San Francisco & Hawaii [Travel]
Packing for sea! [Merchant Navy]
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year [Merchant Navy]
2011
September
Cadets & the con [Merchant Navy]
July
Only 1 more continent to go! [Merchant Navy]
Ship Management Course [Merchant Navy]
Trip number 4 [Merchant Navy]
January
More YouTube Videos [Merchant Navy]
2010
December
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year [Merchant Navy]
November
Minerva 3rd Contract [Merchant Navy]
August
IPhone 3G – Internet Tethering [iPhone / iPad]
July
Back to sea [Merchant Navy]
June
Wales & Alton Towers [Uncategorized]
Minerva – Second Contract [Merchant Navy]
February
Back to Minerva [Merchant Navy]
January
YouTube Videos [Merchant Navy]
New Year, New Site [Web Design]
2009
December
Merry Christmas All [Uncategorized]
5 Continents Down! [Merchant Navy]
November
Brazil! Finally! [Merchant Navy]
October
My first ship [Merchant Navy]
August
I passed my Orals! [Deck Cadet]
July
A quick update [Deck Cadet]
June
GMDSS [Deck Cadet]
First Aid and NARAS [Deck Cadet]
April
Phase 5, Week 1 [Deck Cadet]
Happy Easter [Uncategorized]
March
Home sweet home [Deck Cadet]
February
Dragging anchor [Deck Cadet]
January
An update [Deck Cadet]
2008
December
The Caribbean [Deck Cadet]
November
Island Star week 1 [Deck Cadet]
Home and Away [Deck Cadet]
August
Its been a while [Deck Cadet]
July
A quick entry [Deck Cadet]
June
Hello from the Island Escape [Deck Cadet]
May
End of College… almost [Deck Cadet]
April
Phase 3, Semester 3, Week 2 [Deck Cadet]
Phase 3, Semester 3, Week 1 [Deck Cadet]
March
Phase 3, Semester 2, Week 6 [Deck Cadet]
February
Phase 3, Semester 2, Week 3 [Deck Cadet]
Phase 3, Semester 2, Week 1 [Deck Cadet]
January
End of exams, end of phase and happy birthday to me [Deck Cadet]
Stability, Cargo gone, the exams are looming! [Deck Cadet]
Welcome to 2008 [Uncategorized]
2007
December
November
October
Phase 3, Week 1 over [Deck Cadet]
September
Back to college – well almost! [Deck Cadet]
August
Home at last [Deck Cadet]
July
Two weeks to go! [Deck Cadet]
June
A quick update [Deck Cadet]
May
Some Excitement [Deck Cadet]
Ancient Odyssey [Deck Cadet]
April
I’m still here [Deck Cadet]
March
Transatlantic [Deck Cadet]
End of Brazil [Deck Cadet]
February
Carnival Cruise [Deck Cadet]
Sailing off Brazil [Deck Cadet]
January
New Design [Uncategorized]
The end of phase 1 [Deck Cadet]
Back at Warsash [Deck Cadet]
Happy New Year Everyone [Deck Cadet]
2006
December
Merry Christmas [Uncategorized]
Two weeks to go! [Deck Cadet]
November
October
Vaccinations [Deck Cadet]
End of week 6 & power boating [Deck Cadet]
End of week 5 [Deck Cadet]
Week 4: All done [Deck Cadet]
First Lecture: Charts [Deck Cadet]
September
Last of the short courses [Deck Cadet]
Personal Survival Techniques [Deck Cadet]
Fire fighting all done! [Deck Cadet]
Week 3: PSSR & FPBF [Deck Cadet]
Week 2 is over! [Deck Cadet]
EDH: Day 2 [Deck Cadet]
Warsash: Week 2 EDH [Deck Cadet]
The First Weekend [Deck Cadet]
Warsash: Day 4 [Deck Cadet]
Warsash: Day 3 [Deck Cadet]
Browns of Lanark [Uncategorized]
The Past Few Days [Uncategorized]
August
Induction, Rocky Horror Show & Leaving Soon [Deck Cadet]
July
A quick update [Deck Cadet]
June
Just a little update [Uncategorized]
May
I’m going to sea! [Deck Cadet]
April
Some more interviews [Deck Cadet]
March
P&O Assessment Centre (Day 3) [Deck Cadet]
P&O Assessment Centre (Day 2) [Deck Cadet]
P&O Assessment Centre (Day 1) [Deck Cadet]
February
Welcome to my new web site! [Uncategorized]
January
Now that Hogmanay is behind us [Uncategorized]
2005
December
November
Changes, Ebay and Christmas is Coming [Uncategorized]
Graduation! [Uncategorized]
October
An Uneventful Fortnight [Uncategorized]
First week been and gone! [Uncategorized]
August
Another boring couple of weeks [Uncategorized]
July
Exams [Uncategorized]
June
My Summer Holiday! Im back [Uncategorized]
May
Bloody ITunes Logic [Uncategorized]
Exams, Exams & Parties [Uncategorized]
March
The end of another month… [Uncategorized]
A series of uneventful days [Uncategorized]
Yippee!!! Its week 8!!! [Uncategorized]
February
Two down, and two to go [Uncategorized]
Week 2 draws to a close [Uncategorized]
January
I’m twenty!!! And the Joys of Uni… [Uncategorized]
The end of Christmas for another year! [Uncategorized]
Hogmanay 2004 or is it 2005? [Uncategorized]
2004
December
Christmas Eve [Uncategorized]
Broadband, Finally! [Uncategorized]
A funny email… [Uncategorized]
Works Christmas Party [Uncategorized]
Christmas is coming [Uncategorized]
My dodgy CSS coding [Uncategorized]
The Incredibles [Uncategorized]
Mama Mia at the Playhouse [Uncategorized]
November
Do you hate the new band aid 20 song? [Uncategorized]
Newish site up! [Uncategorized]
New Site [Uncategorized]
Free Christmas Tree’s [Uncategorized]
October
Suicidal Pigeon [Uncategorized]
September
The hassles of a lost wallet [Uncategorized]
Back to University [Uncategorized]
How long does it take… [Uncategorized]
August
They’re finally over! [Uncategorized]
The ebay song! [Uncategorized]
It’s Friday the 13th [Uncategorized]
Maths 2b [Uncategorized]
Antigua [Uncategorized]
I’m back [Uncategorized]
June
In the news today [Uncategorized]
England’s coming home… [Uncategorized]
A night at the bowling… [Uncategorized]
May
Happy Birthday Carla [Uncategorized]
Storks bring babies!! [Uncategorized]
Bloody Windows XP [Uncategorized]
Exams [Uncategorized]
Personality Test & CAD!!! [Uncategorized]
April
Homebase night out [Uncategorized]
Trip to the movies [Uncategorized]
Girls and Shoes [Uncategorized]
Party @ Ali’s [Uncategorized]
March
Gay Sheep! [Uncategorized]
February
Valentines Day [Uncategorized]
Saturday @ Trash [Uncategorized]
January
Happy New Year (Even if I’m a bit late) [Uncategorized]
2003
December
It’s Christmas!!!! [Uncategorized]
Christmas Night Out [Uncategorized]
265
July
America’s shopping preferences [Uncategorized]