How can this be explained?
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LONG_KEELER
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Bag of tools near the ship's compass ?
ProDave
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That's a very definite change of course. Are other ships on the same route also changing course?
Biggles Wader
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Remember the airliner that accidently flew to the wrong airport? I bet someone keyed in the wrong destination and no one noticed for a couple of hours.
Cymrogwyllt
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Navigating around something nasty dropped on the chart?
Capt Popeye
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Running that far behind time surely a 'Watch Keeping' incident ; corr might have run out of fuel ; corr blame it on bxt i recon
Aardee
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Military exercises on the normal route?
Stemar
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"Irish Ferries declined to comment further on the reason for the longer crossing."
Do I sense some embarrassment over the reason? If so, I reckon someone would do well to get their CV up to date
Do I sense some embarrassment over the reason? If so, I reckon someone would do well to get their CV up to date
Aardee
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Strange that it's over a few days rather than a one-off
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Yes, plus their other ferries are following the normal route.
AntarcticPilot
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Captian got a date with a mermaid?
NorthUp
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Option 1- waiting for a time slot at the linkspan
Option 2- great circle routing ?
Option 2- great circle routing ?
AntarcticPilot
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Or maybe the captain decided to take the advice "Well, if I were you, I wouldn't start from here!"
Snowgoose-1
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New skipper formally a london taxi driver ?
anoccasionalyachtsman
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It's doing it again right now?
Mark L
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Very odd. Is it a coincidence that the new track seems to make each crossing almost exactly 100NM? Anything significant about that from a regulatory point of view? I've no idea!
Mark L
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Actually, another feature of the track seems to be that it does not go more than 20 miles from land (Ireland, IoM, GB). Looking online at the Irish merchant shipping regulations suggests that elements of the construction regulations can be waived for class II passenger ships if they stay within 20M of land.
"The Minister may exempt any ship of Class II or II(A) which does not proceed more than 20 miles from the nearest land from the requirements of these Rules to the extent that he is satisfied that compliance therewith is unreasonable or impracticable by reason of the sheltered nature and conditions of the intended services of the ship. "
S.I. No. 98/1967 - Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) Rules, 1967.
Possibly an issue was found with the construction/ condition of the ship and a special exemption was applied for?
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Lucy52
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They sell more Guinness, the slow boat is not the cheapest.
Slowboat35
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Well now, there's the first rational explanation.
There'll be a defect on the vessel or its equipmenr that prevents it from going more than 20 miles offshore.
What other requirment could explain such a carefully selected route?
sailingkiri
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obviously
