Summer Sailing on the West Coast

[awol]

I just love the low profile split pins in your bottlescrews.

I'm a bit worried about the plastic covered guard wires.

 

[ctva]

So you have seen the marina flags at Tarbert, Harris then

Definitely not a union flag anywhere…

When you do (if ever) decide to return you will be gratified to know that the canal is now admitting Bellanoch residents at Crinan on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Thanks, kind of unofficial up till now. ?

Damn. That might have changed my decision.

I keep telling you despite the SC management, Bellanoch is the place to be…

Oh bu**er! I had forgotten the loony schedule. I had cunning plans to satisfy domestic requirements and get the boat from the Clyde to Oban for the Round Mull Race which had a plan B of Wednesday through the Crinan Canal to be in Oban on Thursday night. Looks like Plan A of yet another trip round the MoK - at least the midges won't get me.

Just tell them you are me and they’ll let you in… ?

I'm a bit worried about the plastic covered guard wires.

Due for replacement this year.

 

[ctva]

BREAKING NEWS…

The new, under construction CalMac ferry terminal at Tarbert, Harris, (to accommodate the 4 year overdue, £200m, replacement rusting hulks ferries being built by Ferguson’s on the Clyde) has just had a wee accident, looks like no one was hurt as no ambulances and everyone in a high vis jacket is just looking to where the pile drilling machine was sitting on the scaffolding staging.

So the first pic taken about two hours ago shows the staging and plant circled in red waiting for the ferry to leave. The second pic shows the aftermath taken an hour later.

Oops!

 

[penfold]

The apparent longterm inability to standardise the ship/land interface astounds me. As for the most expensive ferries in the world, the least said the better.

 

[JumbleDuck]

BREAKING NEWS…

The new, under construction CalMac ferry terminal at Tarbert, Harris, (to accommodate the 4 year overdue, £200m, replacement rusting hulks ferries being built by Ferguson’s on the Clyde) has just had a wee accident, looks like no one was hurt as no ambulances and everyone in a high vis jacket is just looking to where the pile drilling machine was sitting on the scaffolding staging.

So the first pic taken about two hours ago shows the staging and plant circled in red waiting for the ferry to leave. The second pic shows the aftermath taken an hour later.

Oops!
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Looks like they needed to put some piles in there. Oh, wait ...

 

[wully1]

The apparent longterm inability to standardise the ship/land interface astounds me. As for the most expensive ferries in the world, the least said the better.

Calmac were testing out the Pentland Firth fast cat for berthing compatibility around here recently so they might be going to rent one in to take the strain off the creaking hulks currently in use...
If they do get one I can’t wait to see how a Calmac full cooked breakfast stays on the plate (and in the diner) when smashing its way over the Minch.

 

[penfold]

If they do hire it I suspect it will only see Ardrossan and Brodick; given the ongoing tonnage crisis they should buy the bloody thing.

 

[zoidberg]

I just love the low profile split pins in your bottlescrews.

Och, aren't those the Jimmy Green Marine 'SBS Stealth FastPins - which guarantee a swift and near-noiseless reduction of radar profile.....?

 

[JumbleDuck]

If they do hire it I suspect it will only see Ardrossan and Brodick; given the ongoing tonnage crisis they should buy the bloody thing.

The old Saturn (as Orcadia) was for sale a couple of years ago. She used to relieve on Ardrossan - Brodick in the summer ...

 

[SaltIre]

The old Saturn (as Orcadia) was for sale a couple of years ago. She used to relieve on Ardrossan - Brodick in the summer ...

Where is she now?
MV Saturn - Wikipedia

 

[penfold]

Google earth suggests she's rusting gently to herself in St. Margaret's Hope.

 

[SaltIre]

Here? To the left?
Here...
Google Maps

 

[penfold]

Here? To the left?

I think that is Claymore.

Google Maps

Yes, that does look like Saturn/Orcadia.

 

[penfold]

Get yer luverly used car ferries here! Never raced or rallied. Orcadia, yours for £400k.

Or perhaps something a little sportier?

 

[wully1]

If they do hire it I suspect it will only see Ardrossan and Brodick; given the ongoing tonnage crisis they should buy the bloody thing.

They trialed it in Oban, Craignure and some of the Utter Haemorrhoids , don’t know if it went to the Clyde.
EDIT.

it did go to the Clyde. Ferry union reinspection halts sea trial of Arran ferry alternative

 

[iain789]

I think that is Claymore.

Nope, it's the Pentalina-B previously Cal-Mac's Iona, now a broken wreck in the Cape Verde islands

 

[SaltIre]

Nope, it's the Pentalina-B previously Cal-Mac's Iona, now a broken wreck in the Cape Verde islands

The black/white one to the left...
Image below is June 2009. She then, as you say, was sold to a company in Cape Verde where she ran aground and was wrecked.
MV Pentalina-B - Wikipedia

 

[ctva]

Get yer luverly used car ferries here! Never raced or rallied. Orcadia, yours for £400k.

Or perhaps something a little sportier?

A damned sight cheaper (and probably more reliable) than the two £100m efforts of the Scottish Government!! ?

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Blame both Calmac and Ferguson for the ferry mess: one failed to finalize the specification and one started fabrication without the final specification.

Thanks should go to the Scottish Government for at least stepping in and saving jobs. The latest issue is that recruitment has failed to deliver the increase in skilled positions to improve the delivery schedule.

Ferguson’s should have never been used in the first place and Calmac should have got their specification sorted before build. I use Calmac as a capture all name.

 

[JumbleDuck]

She then, as you say, was sold to a company in Cape Verde where she ran aground and was wrecked.