Well after many months of discussion, investigation, consideration and frustration, this week we have finally booked a drydock. It is incredible that we have now booked the dock at Landskrone in Sweden, which is the very place we were considering 3 months ago. We will go into the dock on 2nd June.
But we have been on a journey as we tried to understand all of the issues. The major obstacle has been the generator coming from India that was delayed and then diverted and is still on route to Germany, having had a few weeks holiday in UAE in the Gulf. We now hope it will arrive somewhere close by(Hamburg or Bremerhaven) early in April.
Until the engineers have been able to examine the generator and ensure it is ok, we don't want to start to dismantle the old one. So it is actually much better timing for the drydock to be in June.
Landskrone is just north of Malmo, right across from Copenhagen.
We as a family will most probably take the opportunity to return to Edinburgh during the drydock to spend time with family and friends and work alongside the Line Up team preparing for the ship's visit to Edinburgh. It has been exciting sharing with them the past few days about our home city and helping them to prepare to go.
Until the end of May, we will stay in Kiel, although we will have to move berth every week between 8th May and leaving at the end of the month. After drydock we will sail across to a small town south of Copenhagen called Koge. We hope that the work there will be completed in 6 - 8 weeks and we will be able to then sail out of the Baltic to the Faroe Islands and on to the UK.
It's nearly Easter and this week we have seen lots of sunshine but also snow showers every day. It is still very cold here, no one has told the trees it should be Spring.
We are looking forward to having another 2 girls from Carrubbers, Grace and Mairi, with us for another week from Saturday.
On the ship we plan to have a fairly quiet, reflective Easter, with minimum work happening Friday to Monday.
We hope that you all have a very blessed Easter.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Sunday, 16 March 2008
What goes around comes around
The big question on all our lips for the past couple of months has been "when and where will the drydock be?"
Every year, a passenger ship needs to go into drydock, where it is taken right out of the water and various jobs and surveys are done that can only be done in drydock.
For Logos Hope, there wasn't a plan to have a drydock this year. However, that all changed a few months ago when a second hand generator was bought in Bangledesh to replace our number 1 generator which was no longer considered suitable. In order to get the generator onboard, a hole needs to be cut in the ships side, the old generator taken out and the new one put in.
One of the main reasons for this generator is to give enough power for the air conditioner chillers which we will need to go into the tropics.
These arrived a few weeks ago and were taken apart and then moved into the engine room piece by piece.
In our blog on 25th Jan, we said that we thought that we would go to Sweden for drydock and then continue the project in Copenhagen. Since then, we have had a number of changes in plan, with several options here in Germany being considered more likely. A month ago with thought it would be a yard close to Kiel, then for a few weeks we thought it would be Bremerhaven, where Logos II did their last drydock. But for various reasons, we have not been able to make a firm decision. The generator that we thought would arrive at the end of Feb in Hamburg, got off-loaded in the Gulf and will not now be here until early April.
So now it looks possible that we might end up going to Sweden after all, but it might not be until June now. Everything is still open and no one really knows what will happen.
There is a meeting tomorrow night to discuss all the options so hopefully we will have a better idea then.
Other events this week - 9 Indians arrived who had not been able to join the new recruits last month due to visa issues. We all went out to give them a big Logos Hope welcome on Tuesday.
The other big event this week was that mum and dad went back home after 10 days onboard. They both seemed to thoroughly enjoy their stay and worked hard nearly every day they were here. Both appeared to be in their element working with small teams in practical jobs.
On Friday, the Leadership team spent 4 hours discussing how we prepare the ship for moving from project mode to full operations when we go to the UK later this year. Looks like we will still need a few more meetings to deal with all the issues.
I also was speaking in the community devotions on Wednesday morning and leading the weekly prayer night on Thursday evening. So a busy old week.
Tomorrow I am giving some orientation to the teams that are going to do the advance preparations in the UK to try and help them understand a bit about British culture and way of life. Life onboard is never dull.
Every year, a passenger ship needs to go into drydock, where it is taken right out of the water and various jobs and surveys are done that can only be done in drydock.
For Logos Hope, there wasn't a plan to have a drydock this year. However, that all changed a few months ago when a second hand generator was bought in Bangledesh to replace our number 1 generator which was no longer considered suitable. In order to get the generator onboard, a hole needs to be cut in the ships side, the old generator taken out and the new one put in.
One of the main reasons for this generator is to give enough power for the air conditioner chillers which we will need to go into the tropics.
These arrived a few weeks ago and were taken apart and then moved into the engine room piece by piece.
In our blog on 25th Jan, we said that we thought that we would go to Sweden for drydock and then continue the project in Copenhagen. Since then, we have had a number of changes in plan, with several options here in Germany being considered more likely. A month ago with thought it would be a yard close to Kiel, then for a few weeks we thought it would be Bremerhaven, where Logos II did their last drydock. But for various reasons, we have not been able to make a firm decision. The generator that we thought would arrive at the end of Feb in Hamburg, got off-loaded in the Gulf and will not now be here until early April.
So now it looks possible that we might end up going to Sweden after all, but it might not be until June now. Everything is still open and no one really knows what will happen.
There is a meeting tomorrow night to discuss all the options so hopefully we will have a better idea then.
Other events this week - 9 Indians arrived who had not been able to join the new recruits last month due to visa issues. We all went out to give them a big Logos Hope welcome on Tuesday.
The other big event this week was that mum and dad went back home after 10 days onboard. They both seemed to thoroughly enjoy their stay and worked hard nearly every day they were here. Both appeared to be in their element working with small teams in practical jobs.
On Friday, the Leadership team spent 4 hours discussing how we prepare the ship for moving from project mode to full operations when we go to the UK later this year. Looks like we will still need a few more meetings to deal with all the issues.
I also was speaking in the community devotions on Wednesday morning and leading the weekly prayer night on Thursday evening. So a busy old week.
Tomorrow I am giving some orientation to the teams that are going to do the advance preparations in the UK to try and help them understand a bit about British culture and way of life. Life onboard is never dull.
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