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Thread: The big, stuck boat
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04-02-2021, 10:10 AM #276Registered User
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...7jytvDE7-7MnLI
interesting artical on the whys and where fores of the future of container shippingLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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04-02-2021, 10:21 AM #277
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."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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04-02-2021, 10:41 AM #278Registered User
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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
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04-02-2021, 12:02 PM #279
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04-02-2021, 12:04 PM #280Registered User
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04-02-2021, 12:43 PM #281
https://newatlas.com/marine/oceanbir...il-cargo-ship/
Don’t forget a return to wind.
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04-02-2021, 12:46 PM #282
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04-02-2021, 08:52 PM #283
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/
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04-02-2021, 09:52 PM #284
^^^ 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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04-13-2021, 09:52 AM #285
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
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12-09-2021, 11:27 AM #286
Just in time for Christmas!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...um-middle-east
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12-09-2021, 02:21 PM #287man of ice
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What could possibly go worng?
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12-09-2021, 03:35 PM #288
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12-10-2021, 09:02 AM #289
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.In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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12-10-2021, 09:28 AM #290
^Beer helps in those situations^
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12-10-2021, 09:44 AM #291
Also causes some of those situations too.
I still call it The Jake.
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12-10-2021, 11:11 AM #292"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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12-10-2021, 10:17 PM #293
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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12-10-2021, 10:22 PM #294man of ice
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Well, that's all that's important. What was the lesson?
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12-10-2021, 10:40 PM #295
Always have bug spray with you.
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12-10-2021, 11:03 PM #296
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
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12-10-2021, 11:21 PM #297
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03-14-2022, 08:24 PM #299man of ice
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