hi guys welcome back to the channel
well back in genoa molo vecchio marina sorry about these marks from the mask
so it's what day after christmas and i wanted to get this video done
before christmas because i wanted to put out a video to say you know happy christmas and
happy whatever it is you celebrate um but you know work comes first and i had some things i
had to take care of and i took up all my time and you know so unfortunately i wasn't able to make it
which is disappointing but here i am a little bit late so what i wanted to do is say say that first
i hope you're having a great time whatever you're doing i hope this pandemic and all that situation
isn't hasn't affected you too adversely i know there's a lot of people out there that it has
so if you're one of those people you know i commiserate hopefully
let's look forward 2021 is rapidly approaching and yeah let's hope things get better
so what i wanted to do is i wanted to do a little talk about what it's like on a yacht at christmas
or at this time of the year um so basically it just depends really where you are you know for
instance if you're at sea if you're crossing the atlantic or crossing an ocean or you know your
boss on and you're moving around then i'm afraid christmas is kind of cancelled really i mean
in the sense of if you're if you're at sea then most of the crew are on watch the ones that are
on watch are sleeping off you know waiting to go on watch so there's not there's no drinking
generally there's no drinking it depends on the boat of course but when you're at sea that the
watch keepers can't drink so there's not a lot of that going on and the day will be pretty normal
other than you'll have a christmas meal right you'll have a roast or whatever it is you
that the chef makes depending on where the chef's from depending on what he makes
in my experience it's usually they usually make a roast uh you know like a turkey and roast potatoes
and stuff like that if your boat is laid up like soaring here um then it's better because you are
you know you've got that time everybody's everybody's got the time to take the day
off on christmas day apart from the chef and the watch keepers because you still have watch keepers
um so you'll have like one deck department watch keeper one interior one engineering
just in case um but apart from that and they'll be on all day so apart from that everyone else kind
of gets the day off like i said apart from the chef who's busy and usually a couple of people
will volunteer to work in the galleys help them out peeling potatoes or making drinks or whatever
and yeah and we have like a you know a nice meal 12 1 o'clock time um they'll do like a secret
santa maybe or sometimes the boats management will buy the crew gifts which is always nice
um doesn't happen very often not to be honest it's more it's more often secret center
and um yeah there's a couple of drinks and um everybody has a good time um maybe even karaoke
later on in the day depending on you know who's on board especially if you've got filipinos
they love karaoke for some reason i hate it but um yeah so you you know it's you kind of make
do with what you have you have a nice you have nice food and everyone kind of has a good time
i kind of keep out the way because i'm i'm not a big christmas person so i tend to get called
a grinch or ebenezer scrooge or whatever and um and then i sort of keep out the way but um yeah
everyone everyone kind of has a good time and um like i said it just depends on where you are
uh like i said when you're when you're laid up you can have more of a normal
type of christmas you know and and under normal times which is this is anything but
um you can go out you know they'll go out and usually they might even on christmas day usually
christmas day they'll have a meal on board but the day is on either side of that they normally
arrange to go out to a restaurant somewhere and that's also to give the chef some time off because
poor old chefs working away in a galley apart from that i mean they decorate their
you know they'll put decorations up in the mess but apart from that it's kind of normal you know
um after that after that day you kind of get back to normal pretty quickly
and then obviously you've got the new year come up and then like i said under normal circumstances
crew probably go out go to go for a meal and go to a nightclub something like that um under these
circumstances they'll probably have another meal and you know sit in a mess and have have a few
drinks and and that's it because you're in your bubble right so you can do that in your bubble
on board so it's like almost like a family unit everybody's tested regularly and all that stuff so
you can relax on board you don't generally wear masks now if you've got boss on i would imagine
under these circumstances because i haven't worked boss on in these circumstances but i would imagine
when you've got guests on they'll want you to keep massed up when you're around the guests
which is fair enough because you know we're in our bubble and they're in their bubble
and when the two mix you you mask up and you do all the precautions right
if you're at sea and it's christmas what happens so it just depends really if you're at sea
but the guests are not on then it's a little bit different so guest on it's full-on
everybody's working everything's normal you have a kind of a nice meal on christmas day but that's it
because there's not a lot of drinking going on on some boats when the guests are on there's no
alcohol so if that's one of those boats then you know nobody's drinking so they're just having a
nice meal basically would you have a nice meal every day but i mean it's a traditional nice
meal and they decorate the tables and stuff like that if you're at sea and you're like
see transiting like i'll i'll give you an example i was on a on a boat a few years ago and we were
on christmas eve like 8pm on christmas eve we were told that we had to move from our birth in uh in
hamburg and we had to go to bremerhaven which is um which is not a short trip it's um a day at sea
so 8 pm christmas eve we were all getting ready for christmas day and we got told you have to
move so we had to leave hamburg and sail to bramhaven so we had a dead sea so obviously
nobody's drinking all the people on the bridge the engine room is busy and stuff like that so
basically the captain canceled christmas and said right we're not having christmas tomorrow
we're going to have it on 26th so so that next day we had a normal day everything was postponed
and then we got in on the evening of the 25th i think or um the morning of the 26th
i don't remember and then when we got there then we had the christmas day the day after
because it doesn't make any difference really to us because we're all on the boat so same thing
just a day late so that's an example of what can happen you know work always comes first um so if
there's something that has to be done that's what we're there for we move the boat and then we can
relax and have a nice day and it was actually a good idea to do that because otherwise everybody's
you know preoccupied with their own stuff and not drinking and all that kind of stuff so
yeah so it just depends on where you are who's on board where you going what the weather's like
i mean if it's really if you're in you know if you're in an ocean somewhere and you and you're
doing a crossing or something or it's or or you know you're just in bad weather then no one's
going to want to drink and and be sitting in the mess eating a big meal when that when the you know
when the when the boat's moving like this nobody wants nobody's going to be interested in the party
so people make the best of the situation and then you know when you go home obviously all your
family's at home or the people your loved ones are at home and then when you sometimes when you go
home you'll have a celebration when you get home related one so yeah so that's the kind of stuff
that we get up to so yeah i just thought i wanted to film this uh before christmas to put it out
and just to give you a little bit of an insight into to what goes on
but uh anyway i'll do it late so i'm gonna uh i'm gonna be putting out videos whenever i can i'm not
gonna i know it's just a lot of uh youtubers are taking a break over this time but they're kind
of they're like full-time youtubers so they take a break which is understandable whereas
i'm kind of like a part-time youtuber because i'm still working full-time
but i'll keep putting them out when i can if i don't put out another one before the new year
i hope you all have a great new year let's look forward to 2021 and you know and uh vaccines and
all that kind of stuff to get us back to normal and let's look forward all right guys take it easy