Brilliant Mike,
what memories . I have some Super 8 movie of me and the missus swimming in there !! The pool was almost at sea level and you could look over to the Straits & see ships passing by . Then off for a meal in the club...
Rick
So do I got chucked out after a couple of minutes when they found we were on a BP Tanker on time charter. Mind it could also do with the T-Shirts we had printed
French Connection United Kingdom Shell.Somehow the second and third letters got mixed up
Nev,
no wonder you have to work in Kazakhstan !
You've been banned from most other countries !! LOL .
I only managed to be chucked out of one Country & that was Zaire.
I refused to pay the corrupt customs their kickback so they made me persona non grata..... Better than being locked up I suppose. It was a blow because I wanted to return to the ship as the trips were exactly 3 months swinging round the hook/ SBM. No great loss and a nice letter from Shell HQ telling me what a blighter I had been ....
Yes it was pure magic! Do you remember the food? - that delicious hotplate loudly sizzling and sputtering was a bit scarey with just swimming shorts on
Happy memories
Mike
Rick
Its when your young and daft. Will be in Singapore late October so if club is still there might take a trip down memory lane though cunningly disguised.
an SBM is a "single buoy mooring" - often used by VLCC's ( supertankers) to load or disharge offshore without the need of a quay/jetty/berth.
See : http://www.singlebuoy.com/HTML/PDF/SBM%20CALM%20buoy.pdf
but be patient , it'll take a moment or two to load.
thanks for the imfo rick just read up on singlebuoy very intresting
i can go to bed now knowing there is a BUOY AT MY SIDE thanks again
terry music man
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