There exsits, hoverer that one thread, which to me seems to unite those individuals woven out of thousand and one nights on exotic seas. It all begins to bouble up in the boy, that wild being, the teenager who is difficult to straddle to his school desk, as are found in large numbers percisley in the navigational schools, half anarchists, advenuters, fuck-ups. They invent excuses for the missing homeworks, skive classes, but never the less are inspired by the legends from history, those of the great Captains, real adventurers, explorers. There and than, in the heads of those young men a dream begins to simmer, a dream of how one day, he himself will become, a Captain.
How many years did it take Magellan to become a Captain. ? None less than is required of a young man now. Magellan started up on a boat as a nobody, a teenager, without a position, with desire for adventure. He dreamt how one day he will be Captain, and he made an effort, and proved him self on the ships and in war, and only aged 36 he becomes a Captain for the first time ( Than discoveries the streits od Magellan and proves the Earth I round)
Today the story is no different. To become a captain, a young man must prove him self. He must work more than others do, and o a ship everyone works a lot. That man needs to spend more time in the ocean than at home. He must be precise, capable, trustworthy.
To be a captain is the aim, and the dream of most of the boys who enrol into the maritime collage. The moment of taking over the command of a ship is the peak of the career, the realisation of the mariner's dream. Reading these letters, sent to me by the sailors eating the bread with seven crusts, 12 years spent on the ship without a Christmas at home, without the new years, the birthdays, the girlfriends, far from one's family, with all the sorrows and frustrations, whish last for years. Can you
comprehend the patience with which one works at a job for 14 years, isolated on the ship, accepting to stay on the ship for 9 and 6 months instead for the expected 2 month terms- in order to speed up the realisation of the boy hood dream. Most men give up. It is thus a great moment when someone succeeds.
I am honoured that in precisely such a moment in his life, The project Mariner and the ocean was joined by Chief ST. We begun to follow his journey before his flight to Texas a couple months ago, where he embarked the ship as a Chief, sailed the Pacific ocean, to than take over the command of that same Ship Clarince, on the other side of the Globe, as its Captain.
Here is the first report and greetings from the newly baked Captian now in China.
Captain TS:
Greetings Sunčica, it has been impossible to get to the internet to say hello. After a long pacific adventure which passed thank be to god, alright, I had arrived in Korea, where I had stayed shortly without connecting to the internet, and afterwards I left for China where as all know facebook is forbidden, however after a long battle I managed to crack it, and break the firewall to be finally writing !
I have taken over the command and fount it not at all as stressful as I had expected, I suppose I was more prepared than I believed to be.
We are now going to be in the shipyard for seven days unless some taifun sends us out of here.
I have decided to remain on the ship a little longer this time, so that the arrival home shall wait a while . I will remain in command for the next 4 moths, so that I may spend the new years at home after many years. Many greetings, until next time
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