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Blimey Brendan, that's a tall order. I'll see if I can find some external links on our company website to explain what we do and how. If needs be I could fill in any gaps

I'm no longer involved in marine operations - haven't been for a long time, so maybe a bit out of date with the latest. I run a small part of our research and engineering division and my responsibility is designing our nav equipment which is precision gps based

I was going through some photos looking for pictures I could use for my mates obituary when I got distracted with this lot!
 
Well you can read the obit I prepared here but he never worked on our ships

He's being carried into the church by his fellow EBBs tomorrow, bit of a narrow low entrance for us to negotiate and 2 of the crew are 6 ft 2
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Great obit Tom, and a most peaceful rest to your friend and sailing companion. My condolences to all there tomorrow, but your resourcefullness will get you through the narrow, short door, in a seemly manner.

Would love to hear more about your adventures as well when you have a chance.
 
Cheers

We've a right royal wake planned for after, and we're sneaking up there for a brief rehearsal to make sure we don't drop him. You never know what would fall out of the box!
 
Should add that turning ship is an excercise. The inside streamers have to run at 4 knots otherwise they start to sink towards the seabed. That means the outer ones are running 6+ knots and the load cell alarms need watching carefully. It's a big radius and controlled by the mate of the wtach with small regular turns on the autopilot. It takes at least 20 minutes to turn the ship with just 4 streamers

Whenever I was on the bridge as navigator I watched the gyro, rudder indicator and log plus kept an eye on the load cells. We had to have the ship lined up on the approach with the array stable astern of us. The ship had to hit a 5m target ready to shoot the line. In congested areas, arrival timing of more than a minute was considered unprofessional and you'd generally have 20 miles at least to reach your next line start

sbc will probably have only towed a single streamer so blissful/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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... Be warned if you see these around that they are doing 5 knots and connected to a ship 5 miles away!...

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And what lights does the towing vessel show? Serious question, cos technically I reckon she should show appropriate (long tow) lights, but they would be totally useless and misleading /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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