Well, it may be all over for some of us, but the game plays on. So how do you follow the football when you’re away at sea?

As Mike prepares for a trip to the Saudi desert, Stu gives us a tour around the sparky shack, and Steven talks us through making a covert listening device with a simple rubber and elastic band.

As we look ahead to a new year, we consider the highs and the lows of the markets in 2022, and where things might be heading next.

And Stu is doing his best to serve up some smoko festive sparkle, with some rather wobbly antlers.

It’s been four long months since we met for our last Brew with Stu.

And since then, it’s fair to say that we’ve all had some fairly choppy waters to navigate.

In this episode, after what you could describe as a series of loose cannons in UK politics, we consider what life at sea can teach us about career progression and accountability.

We take a look at which sectors of the market are doing well out of the global energy crisis, and why there will always be fewer bad girls than boys in the world of shipping.

But first, Mike has some explaining to do.

Welcome to episode 10 of our Smoko - the podcast whose buoyancy keeps us all afloat.

In this episode - what makes you happy, and how important is workplace wellbeing? We’ll be finding out more about that, and the purpose of the industry-leading Seafarer’s Happiness Index.

Steven Jones earns himself a new nickname, after he shares a startling tale about laying cables in Bermuda.

And - now the mercury is finally rising and summer is almost here, we’ve been giving some thought to what constitutes our favourite summer tipple. For seafarers,  it’s all about the dirty beer.