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She failed to spin through the wind, and instead ran straight in to the dock... Wind gusting force 8 at the time... She doesn't spin to berth, she lies port side to and discharges onto the pile of scrap that is now her berth

I sailed on the Tectona when i was a cadet down in Plymouth. Went to Fowey for the week end. It was great fun.

Simon I for one hope you stay, and the offer to host a weather page surely would only benefit all. If they still don't like your signature, you could always add "other weather sites available" then it is up to the reader to go waste his/her own time!! Please keep up the good work, I look forward...

Apparently this local did! My moring a few years ago was no more than ten feet from that thing!!

Minn I concur!

With you here Minn Having listened to a lot of the hype from the media and read much speculation from the armchair admirals, this was a once in a hundred years event (literally). There is as usual, knee jerk reactions and premature assumptions that we in the industry will have to deal with in...

Blowing old Boots. To answer your question Instantly for the engineroom, they will have cctv cameras everywhere. In the accomodation maybe 1 minute at the most. The bridge would have been informed certainly within 1 minute, if there was anyone left alive in the compartment that was flooded. By...

I watched the programme and i can relate to the terror of those all involved, having been in the engineroom of a cruise ship when it has hit rocks. We were lucky that all the holes were in double bottom tanks or cofferdams so none of the main spaces were flooded. It appears to me that after the...

Most ships bottoms are flat and probably all passenger ships have cross flooding ducts to ensure as much of the water is spread evenly about the compartment as can be. The ship will always sink but the theory is that it will sink upright and allow the lifeboats to be used. The fact that the vast...

Wrabness

If you go to the Baldwin filter web site, they have an excellent equivalents catalogue that will give you their equivalent filter number . We use Baldwin on lifeboat engines and other demanding environments very successfully . Baldwin in the UK are situated in Basildon. The inline filter website...

My father had a 50hp johnson nicked off the back of his boat. Police reckoned the method of detachment was a chain saw!! If they want it they 'll take it.

Dear Mr Dyle n for Winter. I would first like to congratulate you in becoming an honorable member of the marine engineers society. You do realise that this entails large "pour outs" at your expense for all us other members of said society, on birthdays aniversaries and public holidays. You are...

Hi The engine hunting is as you say probably the dirty fuel, if it happens again it could also mean the fuel systems is pulling in air from somewhere. As for the apparent seizing, as a previous poster mentioned, it is more than likely you had some of the cooling water backflow into one of the...

Do all my own servicing and maintenance, would be a travesty if I didn't. Also look after Mr Stena's engines for him too.