I finally passed Final Watch Board. You may remember me talking about getting psyched up for it 5 weeks ago… and then a week ago, and then the boat broke. :-(
They got the boat working for long enough to start training again, and they squeezed my Final Watch Board in at very little notice to myself. Kind of a “Oh, by the way, come in tomorrow at 8:30 for your board. Sorry about you losing the day off.”
Apparently I did alright. 3.07/4.00 was the final grade (2.50 is passing). So far I believe that’s the highest grade among my crew. I got two casualties that I hadn’t prepared for. One I hadn’t prepared for because it was so easy, the other I hadn’t prepared for because of several reasons: It’s very hard, I had a similar casualty earlier (they normally give you casualties you haven’t had), and the staff had been pushing other hard casualties as things to study for. Luckily I wasn’t just completely unprepared, but it was going wonky at times. :)
Now I have about 40 more checkouts to get and I can go to Final Oral Board and qualify. :)