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[oldbilbo]

Maersk EEE....

Don't expect this one to get out of your way.

Eek!

 

[Tidewaiter2]

hope we don't meet that one in the Elbe or Europort approaches on the way home!
The usual ones are big enough!

 

[Evadne]

While transporting the pyramid of Khufu from New York to Paris, a ship ran over a whale in the Thames today and the crew had to be evacuated on an airbus....

 

[Corribee Boy]

Can you add a Corribee in for scale? I often meet their smaller relatives in Harwich and they're intimidating enough.

 

[jbweston]

Sometimes I think the bigger ones are easier to avoid. They turn up in expected places and the crew on watch take notice of them rather than thinking 'it's just a little fishing boat'!

Personally it's high speed ferries that give me the collywobbles, specially if the vis if iffy -they're on me in no time and I couldn't avoid them if I tried (short of keeping well away from their expected routes - like in the Lounge of the Drum and Monkey).

 

[Kukri]

The maximum service speed of the triple E's is 18.5 knots or so, so quite a bit easier to avoid than the previous generation which were running at 24.5 knots until Lehman Brothers... bit like the biggest tankers which are no danger to any small boat because they potter along at 14 knots and their very bluff bows throw up a wave which will throw you clear...

 

[KellysEye]

>While transporting the pyramid of Khufu from New York to Paris, a ship ran over a whale in the Thames today and the crew had to be evacuated on an airbus....

Classic, thank you.