reply to Tom

Tom, The radio picked up your name on a marine traffic net last week. MV *Nordic Crown*, out of Rotterdam, flagged you as second engineer. Good ship. Dutch maintenance standards, mostly. Watch the starboard injector pump — they run hot on heavy fuel. I'm still here. Day 204. Generator's holding on a rebuilt injector I machined from a truck part. The wind turbine charges the batteries when the diesel rests. Jenny's garden feeds us. The shortwave reaches Halifax on clear nights. I didn't write because I didn't know what would change. Still don't. But you're on engines again, and that means your hands are busy, and that matters. The water's cold here too. I stay off the rocks when the swell runs north. If you make Southampton before Christmas, there's a pint waiting at the Duke. No pressure. Kevin