Book Board Chat

I see Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf is in the news a lot. Back in my seafaring days I used go there to load oil on super tankers. We engineers had a schedule where we would take turns supervising the loading and discharging of cargo. The scheduling turned out that I would have my time off on Kharg Island. There was nothing to do there. It only had one seamen's club and nothing else. After a 20 minute walk under the Persian Gulf sun I would get there and was allowed one beer every hour on the hour. Bummer.

Then when we got to the discharge port it would be my turn to stay on board to supervise the discharging. So, I got my time off on Kharg Island and had to stay onboard working in Japan, Rotterdam, etc. Real bummer.