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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Caption Contest!
OK - look at the wake .... and tell me what the bridge transcript would read....
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Awesome ship handling! I think the bridge crew will need a relief for skivvie change...
The wake suggests the propellers are mounted on an extension that can actually be rotated. In this case that extension would have rotated starboard so that the tanker's stern could get out of the way just in time with the bow staying about in the same place. Is this possible? I'm an absolute layman in naval terms.
Of course you cannot tell much from the limited scope of the photo....but why is the tanker in question travelling 90 degrees to the direction of travel of the other 3 tankers?
Is someone playing "Frogger"??!!?
"Bridge, Combat, Skunk Foxtrot past CPA & opening".
The other three tankers are at anchor.
Had one cut across my bow at about 100 yards in a fog so thick you couldn't see 10 feet in the same harbor.. I was underway entering the anchorage. Never saw him visually but we heard him.
Yup, changed skivvies.
Dave
Uh, well, maybe I was a bit too modest re my being a naval layman. I did cross the Semois river a couple of weeks back. In the pic below you see the stern of my vessel, the Graf Spee II. (or is it the bow?)
"Shit, I'm going to be Number 23 this year, dammit!"
Actually, if you go to the gCaptain link, you'll see that the ship actually steered a Z shaped course from the time the intruding vessel was found until (by the skin of their teeth" they slipped by each other. And I seriously doubt if the large tanker had a Z drive...
<span>Hey Skipper, if you thought that was cool, watch me get this sucker up on a plane, hold on!</span>
"Nice job advoiding that collision Captian, however, we to discuss your diversity record."
"There, that ought to do it. What do you think, Skipper? Skipper?"
Looks like a conventional single screw, single rudder to me, and a very nice piece of emergency shiphandling while in extremis. "A close run thing" indeed. G-captain has all the best photos.
ARCO Capt. Dave from Maine?
Old Yellowstain blinked. Another near miss. Out of dye markers.
gotta shake that 650mm wake homer from my tail...
Caption Entry:
"Oh Hi, Captain...I was just about to call you..."
It was then Jerry realised today was a bad day to quit drinking...
"Yeoman, bring me my brown pants."
Or...
"PEE IS COMING OUT!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Captain to the bridge, please!!
One more reason why Texting and Boating is bad...
Captain: "OMG! Wut U doin BFF?"
OOD: "For Reals Drivin this TugBoat Gilligan"
Captain: "OMG, BFF, you almost had to go to Earl Shives to repaint the Boat"
OOD: "Easy Ahab, I got this fo sho, I saw this on Punk'd"
Captain: "lol, you so good... um you hit the bouy"
OOD: "don't me hata playa! TTYL
"And that, MIDN, is how you execute a twist under extreme durress. No if anyone needs me, I'll be in Ship's Laundry."
Win!
Too Close for a MoBoard!
Alll about "Seaman's Eye"...
Which definitely wasn't happening ont he bridge of the red hulled boat!
Smaller scale...but the propspects of money spent on damage are much more personal...
So I do my best to not be a part of this menagerie...
COSR: "Captain"
Bridge: Bark! Bark!
COSR: Be right up.
When I say "shoot her stern, it is so you can fall in behind, not ram her behind!"
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