Ami Burns – Passing BSQ Board

I think your BSQ Board, when you’re sitting with for an Officer, it will be the Captain, the XO, the WEO. So, the Executive Officer, the Weapons Engineering Officer and the Marine Engineering Officer.

You take your biscuits and you sit down with some sort of bribery cakes tat you’ve kept in the back of your locker since you’ve sailed. I can’t eat those because they’re for my BSQ Board, and you already know this.

Somebody has already told you this is the unwritten stuff. And then you pass your Board and it’s the most wonderful feeling in the world. I cried and the XO had absolutely no idea what to do.

He just stood up, he tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Well done” and just left ‘cos he was like there’s a crying female that’s sat here, ‘cos I was elated.