Life at Sea On Board an LNG Tanker
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Refit of Athena has captain up to his elbows in work, literally
, The Terra’s largest three-masted schooner, was berthed at Orams yard in Westhaven, just a stone’s throw from downtown Auckland, and I arrived at the shoes-off-at-the-gangway keen to press the bell for a crew member to take me to meet her captain, Max Cumming.Just then, a man appeared in a grubby m outfit, carrying an electric grinder, wearing goggles and face mask, and covered in aluminum dust. Must be one of the group, I thought, and asked where I could find the captain.
“That’s me,” the man said. “Come on board.”
When I questioned him about his hands-on overtures to what is reportedly the largest superyacht refit in New Zealand history, he said that until he’d had a good look at the job and proved to his own amends that the job could be done, he was not keen on getting someone else to do it. It was my first sign that Cumming would know what he was talking about.
Taking off his protective hat, goggles and lineaments mask revealed a rugged seafarer’s face whose clear blue eyes had seen a whole lot of sea miles, and a smile that was never far away. Being leading for such a large refit didn’t seem to faze him, as was evident in the way he spoke to crew members and their friendly, but respectful, responses to his orders.
