Hi everyone.
I’m curious what routine tasks during watch you find the most annoying or repetitive.
The kind of thing you have to calculate, look up, or double-check again and again.
What small tasks do you find yourself doing repeatedly on the bridge?
For some reason, I hated flipping the log to the next page and starting a new day.
Don’t ask me why — I just didn’t like it.
Also… getting new officers signing on and having to manually enter/write down their GMDSS info into the log (license number and issue date) and signing out the old officer(s)… usually because no one ever bothered to sign them in. Not as common, but I still hated doing it.
Everything else was so routine that it became a string of motions that really helped mark and kill time.
Trying to get crew to bring their Licenses ,MMCs ,Medical Certs etc to me when they board the vessel. Most of the time at least one or two people have forgotten one of them or something is expired .
Dimming everything at sunset; nearly everything is LED lit and they take forever to dim down or brighten (dim up?) in the morning.
The wing rudder indicators are good old rheostats so take about a nano second to operate.
