Great lake boats, a good video

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I pretty much remember the modern Jap ship I was on had electric Compressors, and three Yanmar Gensets. 1 Always for standbye. Could go back and look at old video. Everything on the ship was electric from the Cranes to the Galley. So having an Electric compressor wouldn't surprise me. Then you don't need to back-up (or for that matter start) a Diesel compressor.

News to me but there are many different set ups. Auxillary diesel is the easiest way and they all have a redundancy factor built in, as in 2 or more auxillaries. The Mackinaw has 2 complete air start systems with 2 diesels, one on the port side and one on the starboard side.

really don't matter, it's stuck and according to what I've read the forward compartments where the mechanicals for the bow thrusters are flooded anyway due to some sort of hull damage.

 

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I can read this stuff for hours.

Tons of Boob Tube vids up to peruse. All very interesting except for the vessels that cannot pass through. Think I read 300 now?

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have videos of smaller fishing type boats being run aground and the utter failure upon failure to refloat them. Sometimes resorting to scrapping on the spot. Boats, unloaded and not 1% in size to this. You have to see something like that to appreciate the difficulty here. By bet now, is that they are proceeding with EXTREME caution. They probably could have used brute force and that might have worked, but it's not worth the risk, of further closure or damage to the vessle.

Boat MV Vigra I spend a few days on. Then owned by Fednav. Had free run of the ship and the owners cabin. Beleive me it was nothing fancy! I enjoyed it, but couldn't wait to get off. It quickly became a very boring and prison like experience.

 

[ArlyA]

The Ever Given front thurster marks are clearly seen in this video. This shows the dredges and backhoes digging there. Kind of neat to see what they have at the site.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thanks for that. Very interesting.

Everything in the Maritime world seems to operate at a snails pace. On my little trip, I remember the Stevadors doing everything possible at every port to draw things out and put them and their bros into overtime. Evryone wants their piece of the pie.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is the James Barker limping into Superior WI, on one prop. What a horn! More info below.

They were coming down the lake taking the North route, close to the shore the whole way, slow steaming about 9kts the whole way. Originally scheduled to come into Duluth, then head straight to Port Terminal for a "delay". While checking the AIS as she got closer, she was now on the South side of the lake, coming into the Superior Entry instead! She came into the Superior canal at about 2.9 kts......hence the time-lapse. The G-Tug Missouri was hired to escort her to the Port Termial dock, shown here heading out to greet the ship. A great two tone Captain's salute with the arrival! I'll take it! A surprising amount of people at the Superior entry considering it was raining the whole time!

 

[oosik]

That's a really BIG ship Arlyn. Comes into perspective when compared to the tug and the men on its railing. I played the video 2X just to hear that horn. That's the way a horn should sound.

 

[ArlyA]

That's a really BIG ship Arlyn. Comes into perspective when compared to the tug and the men on its railing. I played the video 2X just to hear that horn. That's the way a horn should sound.

Yes Rolf, We have 13 of those 1000ft class on the lakes and Sault locks are the busiest locks in the world. People add the Barker's horn to there ring tones.

 

[ArlyA]

from the NY post.
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The massive container ship that is blocking the Suez Canal may have run aground because of human error, not a strong windstorm, Egyptian officials said this weekend.

Initial reports said the 1,300-foot, 200,000-ton Ever Given got wedged in the shipping channel because of high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.

But the head of the Suez Canal Authority now says weather conditions were “not the main reasons” for the ship’s grounding.

“There may have been technical or human errors,” the canal authority’s Chairman ***** Rabie told reporters Saturday, without giving more details, the BBC reported.

“All of these factors will become apparent in the investigation.”

 

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Always mitigating circumstances when the human factor is involved.... Looking at the track, it's kind of apparent that the ship made a right turn into the bank.