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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 11:43:12 GMT
I'm slightly worried as i bought some £2 fluffy dice and a spare led module and they might be a week late. It's terrible really. You mock, but this is affecting oil prices already, wait till your weekly petrol full up shoots up.. Oil prices have been dropping this week. It hit $69 a barrel last week for a while. 39 minutes ago it was $63, and has been hovering around that for the past 6 days.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 26, 2021 11:48:28 GMT
How about: A large team of Israeli/ Russian tanks chained together on each bank. Suitable chains strung across the cut. Bow chain connected to the tank team on the bank opposite to it, and vice versa for the chain connected to the stern. In a co ordinated effort, each team proceeds slowly at a suitable angle away from the stricken vessel (45 degrees?). Job sorted. I performed a similar operation when I got stuck in a winding hole on the Macc, just using ropes and without the need for tanks.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 26, 2021 12:34:21 GMT
Why don't they just widen the canal where the front and back of the boat are wedged? And the reason for the engine failure? Well, dimwits, how about changing the engine oil more often? Fact: our narrowboat has never once blocked the Suez Canal. Maybe the ship didn't move for a good while because of 'lockdown'. As we know, leaving an engine unused, with oil that becomes like toxic soup after a while, is almost as bad as not changing the oil regularly.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Mar 26, 2021 17:08:53 GMT
Why don't they just widen the canal where the front and back of the boat are wedged? No need to dig out under and around the bows to the extent of re-floating that end of the ship, . . simply re-floating the stern will allow the stern to be dragged sideways out from that bank into the deeper water in the centre of the canal, . . and then the ship can be dragged astern to free the bows from the opposite bank. The quickest and most effective way to re-float the stern would be to lift off some of those containers that are stacked up aft of the bridge/upperworks.
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Post by bodger on Mar 26, 2021 21:07:13 GMT
only a fox would try to compare a container ship with a radio tower.
how about comparing a chicken with a golf club?
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Post by phil70 on Mar 26, 2021 21:36:40 GMT
Why don't they just widen the canal where the front and back of the boat are wedged? And the reason for the engine failure? Well, dimwits, how about changing the engine oil more often? Fact: our narrowboat has never once blocked the Suez Canal. Fact: Your narrow boat could NEVER block the Suez Canal PHIL
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Post by peterboat on Mar 26, 2021 21:47:55 GMT
Why don't they just widen the canal where the front and back of the boat are wedged? No need to dig out under and around the bows to the extent of re-floating that end of the ship, . . simply re-floating the stern will allow the stern to be dragged sideways out from that bank into the deeper water in the centre of the canal, . . and then the ship can be dragged astern to free the bows from the opposite bank. The quickest and most effective way to re-float the stern would be to lift off some of those containers that are stacked up aft of the bridge/upperworks. I was reading on Splash 24/7 that if they tried unloading apart from finding cranes big enough it could break the ships back! It seems that a team from America will be there tomorrow to look at the job, US Navy apparently so anything could happen
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Post by thebfg on Mar 27, 2021 2:13:49 GMT
No need to dig out under and around the bows to the extent of re-floating that end of the ship, . . simply re-floating the stern will allow the stern to be dragged sideways out from that bank into the deeper water in the centre of the canal, . . and then the ship can be dragged astern to free the bows from the opposite bank. The quickest and most effective way to re-float the stern would be to lift off some of those containers that are stacked up aft of the bridge/upperworks. I was reading on Splash 24/7 that if they tried unloading apart from finding cranes big enough it could break the ships back! It seems that a team from America will be there tomorrow to look at the job, US Navy apparently so anything could happen Christ, are they going to shoot at it?
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Post by quaysider on Mar 27, 2021 7:09:32 GMT
surely all they need is a woman on the on the bow (no offense intended to our the good ones here) looking angry and tellingy the man at the tiller what he's done wrong and how to correct it?- I've seen that to be a very effective method on numerous occasions.... oddly enough, they DONT appear to be speaking to each other the next time you come accross them.
*this is humor*...
actually - it's an attempt and tbh, I don't think we've any snow flake ladies on here just waiting to be offended/enraged by comments like that - now where DID I put my cwdf password??? let's have some fun ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 7:35:53 GMT
I wonder if the delays to global shipping have left the Uighur labour camp slaves with nothing to do.
Demand is important but ability to move products to market is also important
They'll be twiddling their bleeding thumbs.
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Post by patty on Mar 27, 2021 11:15:46 GMT
I saw one of those very long container ships but cannot remember which port..tried to take pic but camera couldn't deal with that length... They r just something else... I guess they'll rethink what they allow through the Suez..
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Post by duncan on Mar 27, 2021 16:35:06 GMT
This site, www.myshiptracking.com/, shows 12 vessels pushing and pulling Ever Given at the moment, during high tide.
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Post by patty on Mar 27, 2021 19:10:16 GMT
This site, www.myshiptracking.com/, shows 12 vessels pushing and pulling Ever Given at the moment, during high tide. well guess they have to try everything
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 19:29:12 GMT
I really like the myshiptracking website. Sometimes I watch the tug activities down at the container port near Southend. It's really cool doing the rewind facility and watching it speeded up. It's like a dance watching the tugs slot the ships into place. 7xspeed is best I find. Left of screen that's on android phone which is the only internet device I ever use. ETA the green boat is the ever given.
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Post by peterboat on Mar 27, 2021 23:20:00 GMT
Last I read the stern was free, 20,000 tons of sand had been dredged out of the way and 9000 tons of ballast water moved or pumped overboard. if the 14 tugs dont move it today more are on the way for tomorrows tide. i am going to be way more careful when i am winding the boat, I would hate to cause a blockage like this
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