Driven by the aspiration to climb up the carrier ladder I shifted from big Shipping company with large vessels to small Dutch coaster with Captain-Owner. It was my first contract as chief mate. I was single mate and big part of Chief officer's duties was performed by Master, as on me was most of the duties, which usually assigned to 2nd and 3rd mate. Captain was owner of the vessel and he was giving job orders to bosun and deck crew himself. Once, I approached the Captain with the question, that looks like bridge became to messy and for me looks like we need assistance of deck crewmember to perform general deep cleaning of the bridge, as it was before on large vessels. Captain looked around and agreed. After few hours, I had to check something on the bridge during my daily safety maintenance tour and found Master brushing with soap deck. For me was a deep shame, that I, newly promoted chief mate pushed Master, Owner of the vessel to do it. Almost all my chief mate carrier I spent on Dutch fleet, under supervision of wonderful Captains: Edward Trommel, Joris Okhuijsen, Henricus Eijkenaar, Wilfried Van Der Plaats. All of them had a different command style, but what was a common: Leading by example. Dutch Captains are not cabin Captains, they are always on the "scene of fire". Another one so called motto: Of Course possible. While some crew members were coming to report some problem, they had some excuse, why it is not possible to do something/to repair something, and why we should give up and just wait for a shore service. My captains were determined to find a solution and pursued it to diligence. I don't know what kind of master am I from the side, but I was always trying to follow those two rules. #Mastermariner #SeaCaptain #Marinesuperintendent #Leadbyexample #Ofcoursepossible #Forestwavenavigation #Kaascrewservices
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10moI always remember our teamwork on m/v Paz Navigator. It was a pleasure to have a deal with you Volodymyr!