Today is disembarkation day and, later, embarkation day. That means one group of passengers leaves, and another come on. On these days I’ve found that it best to get off of the ship for the whole day, as the crew works very hard in the…
Continue Reading →I know this blog isn’t about folding bikes, but I can’t resist talking about mine. It’s just perfect for a cruise ship job. I will give two examples.
Thursday we were in Kauai, and my Dahon Vitesse and I got off the ship. I unfolded…
Continue Reading →Some coworkers rented bikes yesterday and we all went biking on the Big Island of Hawaii. The roads are smooth around the city of Hilo and have wide strips of bike path along most of the roads. If you stay near the coast you’re almost…
Continue Reading →I’ve always liked bikes. I remember being strapped into the chair in the back of my parents bikes when I was too small to pedal myself, rolling through the neighborhoods near our house. In high school I used to go out on long rides with…
Continue Reading →My schedule this week is a little askew because we’ve just come back from a break and need extra rehearsals, but after things settle down, this will be the schedule:
Monday:
10:00 AM – 1 to 1.5 hour rehearsal
7:30 PM – 1 hour performance…
Estimated salary range: $450 – 2,000 a week
When I was employed as the keyboardist in a show band, I made $350 a week, or $50 a day with Holland America. I understand Holland America pays near the lower range of salaries for musicians, but…
A British website has compiled a searchable index of over 70 different fakebooks…, including all of Frank Mantooths books, Hal Leonards books, the new real books and the original real books. It also includes some fakebooks I’d never heard of – anybody heard of
Continue Reading →Do you know someone working on a cruise ship? Want to see where they are? It’s possible to look up the location of any ship in the world through the Sailwx website…. All you have to know is the name of the ship, and
Continue Reading →I found an article today from a cruise ship captain explaining how to find employment on a cruise ship…. The article seems accurate to me, but its rather poorly written. Note the run-on sentence:
“If they are accepted at their interview with a representative
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