Schedule
Damon Ramsey

 I keep this schedule as up-to-date as possible. For just completed trips and work history go to work history of Damon Ramsey. Each trip is usually set out as: dates & ports, my role, the region and trip name, the name of the ship, the name of the company (with some variations). The colour coding is: White for work; including my role, dates, locations, ship, company, red for cancellations & changes (slowing down as covid does), orange for possible, such as applications, purple for private expeditions for writing books, lectures & website, and time off, green for work related courses, transit & training etc

2025

JULY

Seven weeks "off" in Cairns. Plumbing bathroom tap? Garden cement? Medical, new GP? Tax expenses, entering and submit. New Sony/Nikon camera & lens, and field test. Sell previous?

Books: Update paperback, upload and order Subantarctic title. Check and re-edit and re-upload & re-order Antarctic title. Update paperback, upload and order Tropical open ocean title. Update paperback, upload & order Arctic title. Continue work on next book: Coral Reef title in new paperback format, upload and order. Stop watching youtube and WORK HARDER!

28th July - 8th August. Field test camera & lens: Hire campervan and 10 day trip: wet tropics? western Queensland, arid zone and flowers from recent rain.

AUGUST

STCW online course to download and complete: PST, FF, First Aid, PSSR. Updates on lectures for next SS contract. Complete various courses for SS contract. Flights from South America.

20th August - 6th September 2025, Perth - Darwin, (west coast Australia). Biologist/Ornithologist. On board Silver Cloud. Silversea.

SEPTEMBER

6th September 2025 Darwin Australia - 29th September 2025, Lautoka Fiji. Biologist/Ornithologist. Melanesia. On board Silver Cloud. Silversea.

OCTOBER

 29th September 2025, Lautoka Fiji - 10th October 2025, Papeete, Tahiti. Biologist/Ornithologist. Polynesia. On board Silver Cloud. Silversea.

10th October 2025, Papeete, Tahiti -  2nd November 2025, Valparaiso, Chile. Biologist/Ornithologist. Polynesia, Chile. On board Silver Cloud. Silversea.

NOVEMBER

4 - 6 weeks ? private trip South/ Central America - Chile & northwards.

DECEMBER

time off

12th December, C1D interview Sydney embassy

2026

JANUARY

Rest of Jan off (at home?)

27th Jan - 8th Feb. Puerto Limon-Puerto Caldera, Cost Rica. 'East & West of Panama'. Costa Rica, Colombia & Panama. On board Hebridean Sky. Noble Caledonia.  

FEBRUARY

 8th Feb - 17th Feb. Puerto Caldera - Puerto Quetzal. 'Ancient & Natural Wonders'. Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala. On board Hebridean Sky. Noble Caledonia.  

17th Feb - 3rd March. Puerto Quetzal - Puerto Limon. 'Central American Odyssey'. Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica. On board Hebridean Sky. Noble Caledonia.  

MARCH

3rd March - 14th March. Puerto Limon - Barbados. 'Passage across the Caribbean Sea'. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Curacao, Grenada, Bonaire, Barbados. On board Hebridean Sky. Noble Caledonia.  

14th Jan - 25th March. Barbados - Cayenne. 'Sailing through the Lesser Antilles & beyond'. Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana. On board Hebridean Sky. Noble Caledonia.  

APRIL

four weeks, travel in Central & northern South America!

MAY

few weeks time off at home

25th May 2026 - 6th June 2026. London - Leith (Edinburgh). United Kingdom. On board Silver Wind, For Silversea.

JUNE

 6th June 2026 - 18th June 2026. Leith (Edinburgh) - Reykjavik. United Kingdom & Iceland. On board Silver Wind, For Silversea.

JULY

18th June 2026 - 1st July 2026. Reykjavik - Nuuk. Iceland & Greenland. On board Silver Wind, For Silversea.

1st July 2026 - 14th July 2026. Nuuk - Reykjavik. Iceland & Greenland. On board Silver Wind, For Silversea.

 week off at home...

25 July - 8 August 2026. SINGAPORE-SINGAPORE (sumatra). On board TBD. Noble Caledonia.

AUGUST

(continued from last month) 25 July - 8 August 2026. SINGAPORE-SINGAPORE (sumatra). On board TBD. Noble Caledonia.

8 - 24 August 2026. SINGAPORE - BALI (borneo) like HAD (?). On board TBD. Noble Caledonia.

24 August - 9 September 2026. BALI - RABAUL (indonesia and PNG). On board TBD. Noble Caledonia.

SEPTEMBER

(continued from last month) 24 August - 9 September 2026. BALI - RABAUL (indonesia and PNG). On board TBD. Noble Caledonia.

 month off at home

OCTOBER

5-19 October 2026. FIJI - TAHITI (Nomads of the Wind). On board TBD. Noble Caledonia.

19 -31 October 2026. TAHITI-TAHITI. On board TBD, Noble Caledonia.

31 October - 23 November 2026. TAHITI-SAN ANTONIO. On board TBD, Noble Caledonia.

NOVEMBER

(continued) 31 October - 23 November 2026. TAHITI-TAHITI. On board TBD, Noble Caledonia.

time off - travel around South America?

DECEMBER

continue time off, travel around South America?

2027

JANUARY

time off at home

FEBRUARY

available

MARCH

available