Korrigjime

I want to share you one of my story when I worked as a sailor.

This story concerns one of my favorite hobby that is workout.

Working at many ships I always tried to find free time to exercise, but there were a few contracts where I couldn’t do it.

Well, I will back to the story which I’d like to tell.

It was April, 2010.

I started working on German shipping company.

I came on the board of ship called ” Antonia”.

From first days I met with most of my collegues.

The crew was mix, but most of them were Russians.

I met one guy who liked doing workout as I knew from the conversation with him.

He was exercising in his cabine doing various push-ups and Abs.

I offered him as an idea to build a little gym that we could train on the deck breathing with fresh sea air.

I accepted it and we started to look for some metal pipes, valves garbages which still were good quality.

I have some welding skills, so I did two halteres heavy about 20 kg each and the parallel bars and sew boxing bag made from tarpaulin.

My collegue assisted me in all our things.

We did the gym for about one week doing that after ending of our weekdays.

Well, we started exercising after 7 pm if the weather was ok.

He was surprised seeing us telling to us: Hey guys, you aren’t tired, aren’t you?

We didn’t reply keeping pause and afterwards I decided to ask him: Captain, what do you mean?

What’s the sense of your question!?

He started to explain us that there is policy company in which written that all physical activities on the ship’s board are prohibited.

Sailors must rest well, spending their free time reading books, watching movies, playing with some boardgames, chess, cards, loto.

My collegue was confused not say anything to the captain and that’s why I plucked up a courage saying opposite.

I had been working on many companies and never had heard anythind like this.

I practiced workout everywhere and no one captain forbade me, opposite they made me compliment telling, It would be great that some colleagues could do sports than wasting their free time with alcohol.

So, we have a right to do all what we want in our free time.

I saw captain’s face was amazed, keeping some pause, he told that company take cares about our health, because sailor’s job is too hard.

But I insisted telling him, captain please don’t worry and let us to exercicise.

It’s our passion and believe us that sport benefits for the best.

Captain grinned without get angry at us and told, okay guys, I allow you, but with one condition: if one time someone of you will get injured due to the sport, so don’t ask a first aid to go to the doctor.

You will have to back home.

After a while, we got to know the captain on the good side as a person.

So I worked on the company from 2010 to 2018.

It was really a nice time and I still keep good memories about many contracts working there!