I'm sure there's some other people in WA in the same boat as me, being stuck out at work no where near the water. Hanging out for the end of my swing, can't come soon enough, gonna head out as soon as I can. Hopefully these storms clear up and there'll be some good wind on my break. For now I'm resigned to day dreaming and watching a whole bunch of youtube while I should be working.

2 days in to my 14 day swing
Know how you feel. Though i managed to get a couple of days out on the water last r+r. Just managed to get out of perth before they closed the airport
Plane landed so hard on the tarmac that it popped 2 tyres and delayed the poor outgoing swing by 13hrs
Windsurfing MMX game gets me through the night shift

doggie said...

Did the hard landing hurt your back?

I had a hard landing a few years ago, took three weeks before I got full movement back

Nah, they breed us tough nowadays

Which site you on FireEngine? and what are you doing?
That session yesterday got me out of a trip up to Koolan

Out at Golden Grove, unfortunately I'm working in the office as a geotech at the moment so I have way to much time in front of a computer looking up windsurfing related stuff making my days go slower . Almost there though, out on thursday.

Meanwhhile back at the airstrip, the plane overrun the strip went through a fence and up on to the main road. We all had to get out and push the thing back onto the runway!

You where lucky mate, ...this did not happen with a 747.

geez you FIFO boys are a bunch of nancies these days
back in the old days of fifo, I used to have a landyacht out at the mine site for when I was on site. If the shift finished when a big thunderstorm was coming through , I would knock off and sail up and down the mine haul roads , out onto the Mt magnet road , or even cross country through the mulga.
I had an easy roster too , 30 days on 5 days off, not like the early pilbara ,3-6months on 1 week off(no pay)
there was one bloke brought a windsurfer rigged board out from Geraldton and we would often race on the runway

landyacht said...

geez you FIFO boys are a bunch of nancies these days
back in the old days of fifo, I used to have a landyacht out at the mine site for when I was on site. If the shift finished when a big thunderstorm was coming through , I would knock off and sail up and down the mine haul roads , out onto the Mt magnet road , or even cross country through the mulga.
I had an easy roster too , 30 days on 5 days off, not like the early pilbara ,3-6months on 1 week off(no pay)
there was one bloke brought a windsurfer rigged board out from Geraldton and we would often race on the runway

In my day we had to walk to and from, over bush tracks, loaded with snakes, and docked if we stepped on one.
Roster was 14 and 7, That 14 hours per day 7 days a week. Mate reckons his pen couldn't write anything else on his time sheets, always reckoned 7 n 7 is fourrrdeen
The buggers then introduced the 13 day fortnight. We found a way around that for a while until the guys up at Bells site at Kal got done in court for breaching 13 day rule Scared the crap out of the rest of us, who then reckoned, ahh well one day off in 14 wont hurt too much I suppose

mineral1 said...
In my day we had to walk to and from, over bush tracks, loaded with snakes, and docked if we stepped on one.
Roster was 14 and 7, That 14 hours per day 7 days a week. Mate reckons his pen couldn't write anything else on his time sheets, always reckoned 7 n 7 is fourrrdeen
The buggers then introduced the 13 day fortnight. We found a way around that for a while until the guys up at Bells site at Kal got done in court for breaching 13 day rule Scared the crap out of the rest of us, who then reckoned, ahh well one day off in 14 wont hurt too much I suppose

Luxury, when I was a lad ...

Im about to start a job fifo. It will be my first,
8/6 roster fly out Friday morning fly back the following Friday night.

Shouldn't be too bad for sailing, I need the money more than I need to sail.