Fancy a new car anyone?

[John Arton]

If you do lets just hope it was not been brought in on this ship
http://gcaptain.com/watch-car-carrie...in-heavy-seas/
rgds
JA

[Louis the Amigo]

HI shipmates not very nice if you been on a waiting list for months for that motor ? its a right off sorry gov had a knock on the ship. The customer would not be very happy.

[Doc Vernon]

So that's what happened to my VW I ordered from Germany! LOL
Cripes! Flattened!
Some rough Seas by the looks of it!
Now don't they take precautions on securing all that Cargo!?
Cheers

Think someone is in for it!

[Lou Barron]

You will have to do with your push bike Vernon it will keep you fit

[Doc Vernon]

Naw!! Just changed my Oil yesterday,bit of a pain getting under that low VW!
But all is AOK!
although it is a 2003 Model,still in very good condition,not a scratch (hold thumbs)
well Serviced through the Years!
Will still do me for a few more Years!
Cheers

Walking is keeping me on the ball Lou!

[Keith at Tregenna]

Having trouble with my motor insurance, last year was driving a white van, accident occurred and I stopped in time. lady in the car behind shunted me up the rear. the time lapse between everyone else stopping, to a halt, suggests she was applying her makeup at near 65, speed not age. She was about 19 but defo: Bristol shaped and fashioned.

Cutting a long story long, the last motor hit all and the impact did not help, had got out of the van to help others, when the impact occurred. My van arial whipped me and lashed my back badly, had to see the Doc in the morning and told the tale, he said it was the worst case of Van Arial disease he had ever seen.

K.

[happy daze john in oz]

Slightly off thread but still going with this item. Last night on radio thye were talking about the boat people and the fact they were on the high seas. A retired RN man rang in to say it was wrong to call them the high seas as they were in very calm waters. So according to the RN there are no high seas such as we sailed on, only calm or what he called rough seas. He was nicely tole by the announcer that the term 'high seas' refered to all waters that were not costal. He was not a happy chappy after that.

[robpage]

"High seas ... refers to all parts of the sea not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a state. Being the common property of all nations, no portion of the high seas can be appropriated by any state (but see continental shelf) and no state may subject any part of them to its sovereignty.

"The freedom of the high seas includes: freedom of navigation, freedom of fishing, freedom to lay submarine cables and pipelines, and freedom of overflight."

Secondly , and thank goodness there was no CCTV at the time , in my 13 years on car ferries I can recall three times that I was on a ship , when the car Deck Ab raised a deck to the deck head position with more than one car on it . The worst one was a ship with fold away decks that were split and folded to the casing side and the deck head , this allowed more freight to be carried alongside the central engine room casings . The Mate was ringing the control room complaining loudly that the hydraulics were not functioning properly and the deck was not folding away properly , on a close engineering examination , the crushed car that was stopping the deck folding was responsible not the hydraulics , there were six brand new luxury cars being delivered to a Jersey dealership that were reduced to scrap , the mate and the car deck AB thought that Mr T Otherone-checked had cleared the deck . The Mate asked me , what are WE going to do about it , We , I went for breakfast , he was better at excuses than i was

[DeepSea]

Seen it happen many times in the five years I worked the North and Irish seas, on freight ferries. Just the simple vibration of the decks in bad weather would cause the lashings to work loose, caused by a bouncing effect from the tyres on the trailors, plus just the simple strain on the cargo lashings would cause to much pressure on an individual lashing and once one went the others would follow. The Elk I worked on was not built for the North Sea and we had some real scary moments on her. She origianlly had a canvas belt type lashing on the trailors, but nearly capsized in bad weather once when too many trailors carried away and the ship was forced to come about back into the Tees. These were then changed to chain lashings, each with about a 15 ton breaking strain. Four lashings per trailor in the summer and six in the winter, but this did not always stop them from carrying away.

We took a man from an insurance company on one such trip as it was not believed so much damage was being caused to the trailors by weather and were blaming reckless drivers in the loading and discharging. We hit one of the worst storms I have witnessed in the North Sea and instead of the usual 26 hour crossing from the Tees to Gothenburg it took us three day. Insurance man never left his cabin due to being sick and refused to do the return trip with us and flew home. We saw him walking off in Gothenburg and asked what was in his report. He had been unable to write anything and said it would be done in the comfort of his hotel room while waiting for a return flight. Of course we never had a complaint about damge after that. It got too such a point were we carried welders on a near permanant bases during the winter months due to declk plating splitting.

[robpage]

From the start of the Ferries carrying cargo out of Weymouth but certainly from 1974 onwards , trailers without units had jacks under the fifth wheel pin area to stop tilting and chains with bottle jacks to elephants feet on the deck , To the best of my knowledge these never parted , Crs left with the handbrake on and in gear rarely moved even in the worst of weather , It seems the tighter they were packed in the better they rode bad weather