Wednesday, March 25, 2026

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16 comments:

  1. Missed the harbor entrance by this >| |< much.

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  2. Missed the lighthouse by that much.

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  3. I said "Go around" mf must have peanut butter in his ears

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  4. This doesn't look like Alang! Must've taken a wrong turn at Goa.

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  5. There is a rule when entering a harbor: Right red return. Left green return.

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    1. That rule is the exception. Even only in the US there are opposites such as rivers, inland waters, and some harbors.

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    2. For inland waterways it depends on what is considered to be the return port. Such as on the Intercoastal Waterway.

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  6. But still wet !!!

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  7. Channel markers are reversed going downstream. Red/Port-Green/Starboard.

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  8. You can see the whole story about the grounding of the Pasha Bulker, later known as MV Drake and now MV Anthea at the following webpage:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasha_Bulker

    Here's an excerpt from the above page ... Early on the morning of 8 June 2007, Newcastle Port Corporation radioed the 56 moored ships waiting off the coast to load coal to warn them to move out to sea to escape an approaching storm.[5] Pasha Bulker, along with 10 other ships, did not heed the warning. As the storm hit, Pasha Bulker could not clear the coast and it beached at 9:51 a.m.[6] The ship never called for tug assistance, ran aground with a fully operational engine room and still had both anchors stored in the hawsepipes leading some maritime experts to believe that proper precautions were not taken by the ship's captain.

    Also from that web page above ... While beached, Pasha Bulker was used as a billboard for slogans by Greenpeace on 27 June 2007. Lasers beamed messages such as "Coal causes climate change chaos" and "This is what climate change looks like" in red on the side of the ship. Greenpeace stated that the protest was motivated by unnamed "scientists tell[ing] us that storm surges of the type that we saw earlier this month are something that we can expect more of as a result of climate change.

    (Spoiler alert: it was successfully reflected after 3 attempts -- see the link for the complete story.)

    What I found interesting about this ship is that it was built by Sasebo Heavy Industries in Japan. Sasebo is where the second ship (of 3) I served aboard in the USN back in the 60s was home ported -- the USS AR-6, a repair ship. Go Navy!

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    1. In the spoiler alert above, the word "refloated" was auto-corrected incorrectly to "reflected". Arrrggghhh!

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    2. I worked in Australia between Newcastle and Sydney for 3 weeks after that storm (I was an insurance assessor from New Zealand). The ship was quite the attraction.

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  9. Wot wood wee awl do without auto-correct?

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  10. On a voyage from Fiji, I sailed a 44 footer into Newcastle early in the morning in a wet fog; You have to clear in by calling the Port control as the entry channel is very narrow and you might not see any traffic. We had to wait outside for a ship exiting, it was quite exciting as the wind driven seas were very bumpy.

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