Ramen (Jan 9)

It has been a few days since my last post dedicated to The Roaming Pilot specifically, I’ve been working on something else. I had a lot of people on facebook asking me for tips and pointers or guidance on the tuna pilot thing, some even asked me to write a guide. So – that is

Today was a Cool Day (Jan 7)

Today was my first real day of flying for the Shilla Jupiter. The first flight of the day was run of the mill, except that instead of flying with the Captain or the First Officer, the Second Officer is the designated passenger on this boat. Not sure if that is a Shilla thing or if

The Sea God…King…something (Jan 6)

After today’s transfer and demo flight and getting settled into my accommodations my mechanic and I fashioned a shelf for my bunk so that I could have a place for my laptop. The rest of the day was spent not doing much, as there was no need for flying. They closed the tower (observation and

Be Flexible Part II (Jan 6)

In my post for January 1st I wrote about how you need to be flexible to do this job. I would stress even more the importance of that now. On January 3rd I wrote that I might be transferring at sea to the Shila Jupiter and that came true yesterday. The Captain of the Shila

The Difference Between Ships (Jan 5)

I’m guilty of thinking that there was some sort of standard of operating procedures on tuna boats no matter who owned the boat or where it was based. I mean of course there is, a common rank structure and the work is more or less the same, but sociologically each boat I’ve boat I’ve been

The Shilla Harvester (Jan 3)

The Shilla Harvester When I arrived in Nadi I grabbed a sim card and a data load for my phone and then went to the domestic terminal. There was a flight boarding in 6 minutes for Suva that I could get onto. Which beat sitting in the Nadi airport for 3 hours waiting for my

An Awesome Kid Story (Jan 2)

An Awesome Kid Story Ok, so all of you that know me well enough know that I don’t want kids. Ever. It isn’t because I don’t like kids, I just don’t want them. I want to travel and take risks and explore and go places that kids can’t or shouldn’t, and I want to live

Be Flexible

It’s a job requirement A lot of people online ask me for tips and guides for this job, and one point I am going to stress is being flexible. You’re dealing with people in 3 or 4 countries, and just as many time zones, for one piece of information at most times. While the rest

Caught in a Whirlwind (Dec 29-31)

The last week has been something of a twister of experiences for me, and I hardly know where to start. We arrived in Honiara on the 30th after a day at sea working our way in towards the islands. This was a huge moment for me, I’d always wanted to come to the Solomon Islands

Merry Christmas from the Pacific Ocean! (Dec 25)

I’m going to keep this one short, I’m cueing up The Polar Express on my laptop to watch since it’s family tradition, but today is Christmas and I wanted to share a brief post with you all. I’ve got to remember to thank my friend Whitney (source of about 3 TB of movies) for having