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HMS OCEAN (L12)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:08:16 +0000

Submitted by Ship of the Day HMS Ocean (L12) (IMO: 9079456, Port of Registry: Portsmouth, UK) of the Royal Navy is an Amphibious assault ship (or Landing Platform Helicopter) or Helicopter carrier), the sole member of her class. She is designed to support amphibious landing operations and to support the staff of Commander UK Amphibious Force [...]

The end of the season is approaching

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:06:54 +0000

Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog The end of season is approaching fast. In less than three weeks I will be on the RRS Shackleton heading north on a 14 day cruise stopping at all the BAS stations doing last call or closing them up for the winter. In some ways I am looking forward [...]

Work at Fossil Bluff

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:53 +0000

Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog I didn’t really write a lot about my week at Fossil Bluff and seeing as at the moment we have had a few days of bad weather on base and I have only been doing paperwork I thought I would write a little about what you do at Fossil [...]

Clipper Race facing tough conditions in the Pacific

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:38:26 +0000

Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog The Clipper Race is on the Pacific leg from Qindao to San Francisco and facing the toughest conditions to date. Below is an excerpt from their regular email update. The last 24 hours have brought another reminder that the ocean gives no quarter to the crews taking part [...]

Welcome to the neighborhood Captain Black

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:36:35 +0000

Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog I am not sure if I am the first but I certainly won’t be the last to welcome a new nautical blogger to our midst, Captain Black’s Sea Chronicles. From what I can ascertain, Captain Black is a 24 year old sailor who is lucky enough to live [...]

CMA CGM PARSIFAL

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:26:17 +0000

Submitted by Ship of the Day Today’s SotD is the CMA CGM Parsifal (Flag: Liberia, IMO: 9318060). The ship is capable of transporting about 8,200 teu and has a capacity for 700 reefers. She is 335 meters long, 43 meters wide and has a deadweight tonnage of 100,800. The vessel was built in 2006 by [...]

MSC DANIT

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:44:43 +0000

Submitted by Ship of the Day Today’s ship of the day is the recently delivered MSC Danit (IMO: 9404649, Port of Registry: Panama). This container vessel is 365 meters long and 51 meters wide. Due to her design with the superstructure midships, she is capable of transporting about 14,000 TEU, more than Maersk PS-class (amongst which [...]

Sailing Photo Of The Day - Hiking hard

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:42:05 +0000

Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog Hiking hard ……., originally uploaded by Bruce Kerridge.

Open House at Raritan Yacht Club March 20th 1-4

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:40:02 +0000

Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog Raritan Yacht Club in Perth Amboy NJ is having an open house: The RYC Open House is coming on March 20 from 1 to 4. If you ever wanted to learn more about RYC, now is your chance. We will be hosting club tours, there will be live [...]

Oil Spills

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:32:53 +0000

Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog When the Gould came in for calibration of our CDT and Gould night we also did an oil spills excercise. The ship had according to the scenario got a hole in the port side tank and was leaking fuel out. So the people on base that had been [...]

Reptile Ridge walk

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:35 +0000

Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog A month ago or so we walked Reptile Ridge past Repeater Buttress but then it was late in the day so we came off about half way to Vals. On Saturday we made it one little bump before Vals and then abseiled down off the ridge. It turned out [...]

ELEONORA MAERSK

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:29 +0000

Submitted by Ship of the Day The Eleonora Maersk (IMO: 9321500, Port of Registry: Svendborg, Denmark) is, together with her sisters (amongst others) ‘Emma Maersk‘, ‘Estelle Maersk‘, ‘Evelyn Maersk‘ and ‘Ebba Maersk‘, the largest containership ever with a total teu capacity 11,000 teu (of which 1,000 forty foot reefer containers) according to the A.P. Moller - [...]

An evening with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:23:57 +0000

Submitted by Messing About in Sailboats Blog Yesterday evening I was lucky enough to attend “Sir Robin Knox-Johnston - a Life in Sailing” at NYYC. Sir Robin is in New York to receive an award from the Cruising Club of America and was able to be a guest speaker at NYYC while he was [...]

Tsunami !!

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:01 +0000

Submitted by Racing Yacht Management Blog Waiting for the wave on the ramp in my boatsuit as I had come straight from SAR. Evacuated to the traverse waiting… At 6am on Saturday morning the fire alarm went off so we dragged ourselves out of bed (only half hour early in my case) to the tagging board all [...]

Sailing Photo Of The Day - Schooner Wendameen in Portland Harbor, Maine

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:34:54 +0000

Submitted by Sail Southern California - Sailing Blog Schooner Wendameen in Portland Harbor, Maine, originally uploaded by nelights.