Neaped, possibly for two months

A sensible summary from the MCA for once though:

A Maritime Coastguard Agency spokesman added: “There is no pollution and it is not blocking anything, so we will just have to wait and see what happens.”
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Pete
 
It's been sat there a fortnight already. The currents are very strong there & the sand is moved around on every tide. I suspect that it is sinking into the sand & there is a build up of sand all around like a wall.

I have been trapped near there (at Llannerch yr Mor) many years ago in my frst boat. A pal came in with his engine struggling & I tied him alongside me on a mooring while we sorted it out. They then went ashore to the fun ship while we sat out low water with the kids. As the tide came in it cut all the sand from under the downstream bilge keel & we sank into the sand at 45deg with his boat leaning over ours & holding us down.

I couldn't untie the warps for the weight on them so cut them with a knife in the hope & could push his boat off on a long line to lie behind us. At that point they returned form the pub. I have never seen anyone sober up so fast! He got on board started the engine (running like a dream after having the plugs cleaned) & took off Linda & the kids while I tried rocking the boat to release the grip of the sand.

Just as I was deciding that it would never come up & I had better get on his boat to avoid be swept away towards Chester, there was a great slurping sound & she popped up again. I have never been so relieved in my life. But I also never went back there again! TBH, the problem was clearly due to the second boat pressing down on us cos th local boats sit on the moorings without serious problems. But it is a nasty place to get caught.
 
I wonder if that ship will ever come off, we've seen it before, few degrees of list, then more, then chopped up on site, I can't recall the name of the one at Blackpool.
 
burgundyben said:
I wonder if that ship will ever come off, we've seen it before, few degrees of list, then more, then chopped up on site, I can't recall the name of the one at Blackpool.
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The Riverdance was cut up on Blackpool Beach and the MV Carrier was cut up last winter on the beach a bit further along in North Wales.

But the biggest problem with this, is the wings on that ship are needed by the Airbus factory in Toulouse in order to keep to their manufacturing deadlines.

This will only hasten the day when someone on the board at Airbus says "I've got a great idea: Instead of building the wings in Chester, dragging them over a field on a trailer, loading them onto a barge, floating them down the River Dee on exactly the right bit of the tide, transferring them to a ship, dodging the sand banks (or not!), sailing them across the Bay of Biscay to Bordeaux, transferring them again onto a barge, going up the Gironde, putting them on another truck, taking them through villages with only inches to spare in the middle of the night, etc, etc . . . why don't we build them here on the airfield next to the assembly line?"

As Britain has no stake in Airbus any longer, another bit of Britain's high tech manufacturing will disappear on the nod.
 
Yep - but the Environment Agency has concerns:
“Our shellfish officer has also been making initial assessments of any possible damage to the cockle beds, but we will not be able to fully assess this until the ship has been successfully refloated.”
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LadyInBed said:
The equivalent of an artic stuck under a bridge on a back road.
Obviously using TomTom rather than 'Traditional' Navigation :)
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According to
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nor...g-ferry-off-north-wales-coast-55578-32731079/
it wasn't navigation error - it broke its moorings. I find this hard to believe as its secured against a well sheltered dock on a weather shore. I can see the ship from my house and the night it went aground there were no exceptional winds.
 
Norman_E said:
It was a type UE 2 Ocean Minelayer, LOA of 81.5 metres, that class were not the biggest of the WW1 U boats. U 142 had an LOA of 97.5 metres
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"Eventually, it became so popular that the town clerk started charging people a small fee to be allowed on board.....before he moved on to found Quay marinas.:p
 
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