Hi guys welcome back to the channel - it's five minute Friday so we're gonna put 5 minutes on
the clock and let's go- all right guys so the first thing i wanted to talk about is i just put out a
video last night about Andromeda it's quite a long one just under 30 minutes
and i did, I promise out that i would do it and i was going to talk about the GA or
the general arrangement which is i have a copy of the vessel which is basically what people
would call a blueprint maybe - on ships they're called general arrangements and i made a video
and i went through the whole vessel so this is the bridge area as you can see from these photographs
and you've got the wheelhouse here you've got all of the control stations
with a couple of chairs and obviously this is the window looking forward here
and I put it live last night- it was very late for me last night - i think it was like 1am
and i did that because i didn't i want to make this video on 5 minute Friday so i put it out
last night i stayed up - it was a long video and as such I ran out of time really I
didn't want it to be more than 30 minutes so i neglected to do the last deck the tank deck
i just talked a little bit about it and what i'm planning on doing is i recorded the whole thing
but i droned on for over an hour when i actually look back at what i recorded so i i edited a lot
of it out- what i'm going to do is i'm going to make another video i'm going to put it on my other
channel which is eSysman Tech there'll be a link in up here and down in the description for
that channel -i'm going to do one and it's going to be all the technical areas that were not in the
previous video so it would be the tank tech and galley and some stuff like that some interesting
stuff also one of my subscribers or one of my viewers sent me another ga of the same vessel
from before it was purchased by its current owner and the tank deck is slightly different they made
some changes and i think that's quite interesting and it's something i want to talk about because it
always happens on vessels not well it doesn't always happen, it happens a lot on vessels
and it's something i wanted to talk about about crew accommodation and stuff like that.
A question that I got this morning which it sounds obvious at first and i have to think about it but
the question was: Are there 2 captains in case the owner wants to travel at night ?
it sounds kind of funny if you know the answer already but actually
it made me think about a situation a subject that comes up a lot in the media
so whenever there's an incident on a vessel in the media one of the questions the media always
say is -if they find out that it was the case- they always say the captain wasn't on the
bridge why wasn't the captain on the bridge and that's just ignorance on their part really because
the captain is not always on the bridge - it's something that people think- isn't the case but
it's not -obviously he can't be always on the bridge can he because there's only one man and
that's why the question is like how does he do it -well let's assume the vessel's in port
vessel's leaving port captain will maneuver the vessel out of the port and out to sea now once
he's at sea he'll hand over to the watch keeper and what as long as that vessel's at sea there'll
be 3 people usually 3 people and they'll take a watch and they'll do 4 hours each so
it'll be 8 til 12 then 12 -4 and 4 -8 and those are the 3 watches and they do those twice a day
and they are generally on on a large superyacht and on a commercial vessel like a cruise ship or
a tanker or a container ship they'll have 3 third officers usually watch keepers
and the captain does not do a lot - now on some of the smaller yards the captain might take a
watch i've i've worked on on yacht - so in actual fact i looked in a a yacht that was just under
100 meters where the captain took a watch because they just didn't have enough crew
but the general rule is the captain is not on the bridge so for the answers to the question are
the 2 captains no there are not technically not there might well be 2 captains on board
one of them is the captain the other one is the chief officer who holds a captain's certificate
I mean on some of the vessels i've worked on there'll be 3 on board there's 3
people there's a captain and two chief officers for whatever reason and they're all
captain ranks right and one of them will relieve the captain when he goes on leave maybe
some vessels do have 2 captains like employed as captains and they rotate so
one will do 8 weeks the other one does 8 weeks - oh yeah so there's one
last thing that like i said it's a 5-minute Friday so it might actually make it this time
uh if anybody has a general arrangement a GA or a blueprint whatever you want to call it
if anyone has one for motor yacht Octopus please get in touch because Iwould love
to do a video on Octopus or any of the high profile vessels any vessel to be honest but
i really like to do Octopus it has to be a high resolution there i know there are some out there
already on the internet but when you zoom in they go all blurry now the one i used in my video last
night is very high resolution it's like 1200 dots per inch or something you can zoom right up
so anyway look out for that other video the of the technical spaces of Andromeda
if you haven't seen that video please check it out - i'll put links in all the usual places.
I find those kinds of things interesting and i give a lot of color to the looking at the plans
by explaining how it works why it's laid out the way it is and i've augmented it with with the
composites from the original build so they make images that you can hardly tell that they're
whether they're real or not that's so good and i also use video footage of the exterior
of the vessel to show the areas that i'm talking about- all right guys so i'm gonna leave it there
i hope you all have a great Easter if you celebrate that kind of thing
and i'll get back to you soon -i'm probably going to put that video out over the weekend
the one of the technical spaces. Take it easy have a nice weekend and i'll see you next week