Recent content by Uricanejack

I enjoyed this thanks. The Ravens hang around klemtu. Visit passing boats. Looking for tit bits. Lucky with the weather. You can get 60 plus knot Arctic outflow coming out of those Chanels. Swanson Bay a bit South of Butedale used to be a sawmill closed arround 1920. I read it produced a...

With an outboard is it not a back to front end and top and bottom bearing.:)

Hmm. Yes well whatever, It was a long ruling and it ain’t over yet. You have to have some pretty deep pockets to pursue the game. The folks with the deep pockets have to have some big darn big money at risk of coming out of those pockets to make th point of it all worth while. The judge...

Well that took me a while to read. Thanks, I did find it quite interesting. There is possibly something wrong with me, I’m sure most normal people would have given up. The picture ate the end of the actual positions put it all into perspective and it all made sense. Sort of well yea. Two edgits...

Hmmm. Go down the rabbit hole or not. It’s the question. What the heck does not impede mean? It’s fine you all have your opinion. You do what you want, I will deal with it either way. You could try reading Cockcroft or others. It’s in there. Just a small point. SRM has self identified as a...

I posted this question to try and give some idea of the perspective from the other side of the equation. Which is why I included some rough description of the typical maneuvering characteristics of a very average deep sea vessel. Which could be encountered almost anywhere. I specifically didn’t...

Wear a bikini

Just a question for everyone acknowledging the OP description is a bit vague. I generally try and think of what the other guy or girl can see. The idea not so much to make assumptions of what the other vessel is going to do. rather to make my intentions apparent to the other vessel. If my...

I can’t post the reputed origin of the International Code of Signals YG for fear of being in breach of forum rules. Certainly have memories of operating in the med the same applies to most of the locals as far as I recall. While in the end self preservation trumps all. Not sure I have your...

My 1st fishing boat was an old piece junk of indeterminate age. It floated. I bought a nice slightly used motor for it. My plan was just to get it covered in fish guts and scales so pretty wasn’t a requirement. Running several miles offshore reliability was. Even an older mercury should be ok...

I test run my OB with hose and muffs. Yamaha and Honda It’s my fishing boat. I always flush in driveway after using in salt water. Disconect fuel hose and run till fuel system is dry. We had a couple of big new mercury on large rib. they have a hose connection on cowling. (Commercial use run...

Interesting, I don’t recall ever hearing about the Texaco Oklahoma. I do remeber seeing a few Old American T2 which had been lengthened. Both some of the T2 and s one early Liberty‘s had problems with cracking, the cracks would spread past welds. Problem solved with riveted sheer and bilge...

Wouldn’t have been Aldabra? A funny little mostly uninhabited island a bit to the North of Madagascar. Somebody high up in BP had a connection with the Royal Geographic and or Oxbridge. From time to time it would be arranged for one of the big ones on its way round the Cape from the Gulf to...

Every Ship I sailed on. The Voluntary Observing Ship . Can’t remember if selected Was part of the title or deal. The UK met office has about a decades worth of my efforts in log books in some attic somewhere. They used to publish a nice little book of special phenomena reports. I put one in...

A real Tankerman from Ye Old Exploding Tanker Co. :).