The big, stuck boat

[XXX-er]

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...7jytvDE7-7MnLI

interesting artical on the whys and where fores of the future of container shipping

[Toadman]

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...7jytvDE7-7MnLI

interesting artical on the whys and where fores of the future of container shipping

Crazy. I remember when I got into the biz, cntr ships were 4k TEU vessels. Everyone was blown away when they went to 10k TEU's. Unless the ILA and ILUW get with the 21st century, these larger vessels will take way too long to unload and load in the States. Even in Europe they don't have the space to discharge so many cntrs and get them out the gates w/o creating bottlenecks. Then throw in lack of commercial truck drivers and you have some serious issues with no place to put all those cntrs. Even running 24/7 ops, which for the most part all ports do already you have problems. LA/LGB ports are complete clusters right now. Seattle/Tacoma are getting just as bad.

IDK, maybe if there was a proposal for a couple trillion in infrastructure investment in America, they might be able to help the situation. Oh, wait. Never mind.

[XXX-er]

Crazy. I remember when I got into the biz, cntr ships were 4k TEU vessels. Everyone was blown away when they went to 10k TEU's. Unless the ILA and ILUW get with the 21st century, these larger vessels will take way too long to unload and load in the States. Even in Europe they don't have the space to discharge so many cntrs and get them out the gates w/o creating bottlenecks. Then throw in lack of commercial truck drivers and you have some serious issues with no place to put all those cntrs. Even running 24/7 ops, which for the most part all ports do already you have problems. LA/LGB ports are complete clusters right now. Seattle/Tacoma are getting just as bad.

IDK, maybe if there was a proposal for a couple trillion in infrastructure investment in America, they might be able to help the situation. Oh, wait. Never mind.

you still got waterways that are not deep enough so they are talking about dredging ports and even the straits of Malacca and then it takes longer to get a berth to unload/ reload, also the boats are so big they are already like a sail in bad weatehr ... an interesting box of dominos

[twat]

i cant say i haznt maybe indicaed when i should of sativaed
and reefered some rocks on the green a time or 2

looks like you are stuck high and dry there

[XXX-er]

looks like you are stuck high and dry there

high for sure

[neufox47]

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...7jytvDE7-7MnLI

interesting artical on the whys and where fores of the future of container shipping

https://newatlas.com/marine/oceanbir...il-cargo-ship/

Don’t forget a return to wind.

[Core Shot]

looks like you are stuck high and dry there

High. And dry. But not swamped.

It’s amazing the stern hasn’t taken on water.

[Beaver]

If you're waiting for stuff off Ever Given you might be in for a really long wait.

https://theloadstar.com/lengthy-wait...neral-average/

[Harry]

If you're waiting for stuff off Ever Given you might be in for a really long wait.

https://theloadstar.com/lengthy-wait...neral-average/

^^^ learned something new. Thanks for posting. Never heard of “General Average” before. The concept makes sense, but I had no idea it worked that way.

Yeah, some of those people will be screwed. I wonder if any of those containers had a Lamborghini in them ? If so, maybe that Suez Diggerman dude is going to be rolling like a rock star.


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[Dantheman]

Egypt seizes the Ever Given, saying its owners owe nearly $1 billion for Suez Canal traffic jam
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...cid=uxbndlbing

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Just in time for Christmas!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...um-middle-east

[ötzi]

What could possibly go worng?

[CarlMega]

What could possibly go worng?

Web redemption!

[TNKen]

Don't think you've seen this one.



It was 5:30 one morning dark and foggy so the light bar was useless. We were running up the Caney Fork River near Nashville. The Tennessee Valley Authority releases water into their rivers to make power. There is an app that shows predicted flows and levels.

Somehow, we didn't check the app. We were running under power on plane, came upon an area I didn't know, and made a decision to run right instead of left. At 5:30, there was about 4" of water where the boat is sitting. Normally, it might have made it over the bar, but I had backed off a bit and it was drafting more than at full power on plane.

We came to a grinding halt. Realized TVA had turned off the water. Got the boat turned about half way around. By this time, the water had dropped, leaving us high and dry. Sat there from 5:30 until 7:30 at which time the water return and we floated away. Long day watching about 500 recreational kayakers go by asking how we got there. We did catch a bunch of trout. Dug the trench in hopes that a one hour pulse would get us out. Nope.

Fun times.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

^Beer helps in those situations^

[BmillsSkier]

Also causes some of those situations too.

[Danno]

^Beer helps in those situations^

Also causes some of those situations too.

"Beer, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." -- a brilliant philosopher

[neufox47]

My HS buddy was in his jet boat on a river, god only knows how many high life’s in and made a turn to see a boat in the way. He turned away avoiding hitting them and flew up the bank into the woods. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. He left his GF with the boat to go get a winch and pull it back out to the river. They managed to get home in one piece but about 5 hours post accident. It was summer in Michigan so they got eaten ALIVE by mosquitoes. Serves them right though for their recklessness and endangering those people. I think he learned a lesson that day.


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[ötzi]

Well, that's all that's important. What was the lesson?

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Always have bug spray with you.

[TBS]

In a similar vein to TNKen and neufox some friends and I took a boat to a little unnamed island in the inland passage of SE AK. Where we dropped acid.

When we came back to the boat six or so hours later, the boat was about 50 yards from water. We forgot that AK tides are fucking big and we were approaching a full moon.

So we dropped again and waited another 12 hours for the tide to come back in.

We had plenty of bug spray. And beer
But we ran out of munchies and had to forage for shellfish and berries

[neufox47]

Well, that's all that's important. What was the lesson?

Don’t drink and boat and if you do definitely don’t be throttling your jet boat around a narrow river. They were the little stuck boat. That fucking jet boat was all but fine though even after launching 50’ in the air.

[abraham]

Bump.

[ötzi]

Just barely stuck is stuck I believe. Is that company in the shipping business or the storage business?

Funny reply went unappreciated at the time VV

Always have bug spray with you.

[BmillsSkier]

My HS buddy was in his jet boat on a river, god only knows how many high life’s in and made a turn to see a boat in the way. He turned away avoiding hitting them and flew up the bank into the woods. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. He left his GF with the boat to go get a winch and pull it back out to the river. They managed to get home in one piece but about 5 hours post accident. It was summer in Michigan so they got eaten ALIVE by mosquitoes. Serves them right though for their recklessness and endangering those people. I think he learned a lesson that day.


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Well, that's all that's important. What was the lesson?

Always have bug spray with you.

This went under appreciated first time round.