alant
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Interesting pic. I note the distressed sailor has hoisted his trousers up the signal halyard. That's a novel form of distress signal!
Gay?
Interesting pic. I note the distressed sailor has hoisted his trousers up the signal halyard. That's a novel form of distress signal!
Gay?
This is what's now heading to the rescue of Susie.....
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Perhaps the sea state will subside enough to permit the recovery of her boat.... and perhaps the Good Minn could post more details of the vessel for us?
Wasnt Fresh Herring formally East Coast ownedIt is worth noting that the Longue Route sailors are also down there.
Pierre-Andre Huglo in Fresh Herring, his Contessa 32, looks to be in the thick of it soon
This chart shows both groups:
https://maps.sail.cloud/home/event/19
One of ours. On passage to Argentina - merchant ships do use the Straits of Magellan, as it cuts about three days off compared to rounding the Horn. The Chilean Navy take a close interest in what goes on there, ever since Shell made rather a mess, which they never bothered to clear up, by parking their VLCC “Metula” in the wrong place in First Narrows in 1974.
The “Tian Fu” is three years old, one of a class intended for carrying things like steel coils and girders, machinery (lots and lots of wind turbines!) forest products, paper, and suchlike, but can also carry containers. Technically she has non-sequential folding hatch covers with box shaped holds and demountable pontoon tweendecks. She can move an entire car production line.
I don’t know her Master; I do know her commercial and technical managers, because this class do call in the UK and Ireland, usually with wind farm equipment, often via the North East Passage, in the northern summer. Keep in mind that’s a stock photo, taken on her acceptance trials from the building yard, and her decks will be full of stuff at the moment. If as is very likely she has wind turbines on board there will be no spare deck space, and turbine blades, whilst huge, are very delicate and very expensive. It’s a bit like carrying aircraft wings. The crew do all the lashing and securing and drive the cranes - we don’t trust stevedores with them.
Whilst she has cranes capable of lifting a Rustler 37, they are regular cargo cranes, for use in port, not offshore cranes, and they are not heave compensated, so picking the boat up would depend on (a) deck space (b) slinging arrangements and (c) most importantly it would only be possible in calm conditions, which are not very likely. Any decision on trying it will be down to her Master and Mate.
I’d defer to Frank Holden on this as he has sailed these waters in his own boat and has commanded merchant ships of similar size.
Hope Suzie likes Cantonese cuisine. She’ll get her cup of tea, but not with milk and sugar.
Newcasters get a lot of stuff wrong... I'm surprised it isn't a 'tanker' on her way to rescue Susie....
I hope her engine is still working... she may have to lay her yacht alongside the ship...
Just joining this thread, but admit to not reading everything up to now...but I did pick up the idea that modern beamy boats may have some advantages over older designs. Having been a R36 owner/sailor till health put a stop, I am dumbfounded that an R36 should remain inverted, or have the newscasters got it wrong?