Busted

fore deck beers
Originally uploaded by darenpackham

Its a guest day but not a guest day because we are expecting guests but we all know that they won't arrive until tomorrow. The captain always tells us its the day before it really is, so that if we have any problems in the preparations all is not lost.
The thing about guest days is that there is no beer drinking allowed. However. It was a steaming hot day and the guys were working flat out so I suggested that we sneak some beers up to deck 5 where we could sit in the CCTV / Captains blind spot and drink an after work cold one. However, however the captain decided to have a walk around the decks to see how it all looked and found 6 deck crew all fully encouraged by the 1st officer to break the rules. We were busted! Only I think he was teetering between telling us off, or joining us.
Today was also a non guest guest day because we got the news that the guests were to stay at the house for dinner and so we were off the hook again and yet again it was a long hot day and we had worked hard, so I chose the fore deck as a more secure spot for our, one after work cold beer. The beers had just been popped open and we posed for attached photo, when around the corner came the captain! Damn it! Busted again... He just said that he thought the boat was looking very good but that tomorrow is to be a guest guest day!