Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

Originally Posted by 4bee

What are your thoughts on it cuppa? You must have the seagoing experience after all these years.

Came off the sea 18 years ago for the most part. I work in the Sheltered water sheltered workshop these days and rarely venture outside or rely on GPS.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

It was late August and you know what happened shortly after that.

Yeah I should, it was my birthday on Sep 7.

Oh, you mean 9/11 or 11/9 in inglish ?

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Came off the sea 18 years ago for the most part. I work in the Sheltered water sheltered workshop these days and rarely venture outside or rely on GPS.

Were you on tugs mostly?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Were you on tugs mostly?

When at sea yes. but workboats and Crain barges when not. Now I just do ship mooring.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Yeah I should, it was my birthday on Sep 7.

Oh, you mean 9/11 or 11/9 in inglish ?

https://youtube.com/shorts/3lujBOQlB...cHpgU22ZJpFvsM

[QUOTE=cuppabillytea;3209542]When at sea yes. but workboats and Crain barges when not. Now I just do ship mooring.

That could be a bit tricky I recall. Years ago I was at our Outer Harbour waiting for the Oronsay to berth on her voyage to the UK. Wind at the time was off the land & she was having a problem getting to the wharf after about 1/2hr & no electric propulsion back then. So what did they do?


Cleared the adjacent wharf of onlookers & brought the messenger Lines ashore with Rockets & then the mooring warps. That fixed her tantrums. A piece of **** I suppose but I'd not seen that done before when I had spent a "million or two" hours on the Port Adelaide wharves with my olde Dad.

More sheltered I suppose whereas OH was open to the Gulf.


Just sayin'

My understanding is the firing lines by rocket was more common during WW2 when the US had by necessity rushed a lot of crew to meet a very minimal standard then sent them to sea in cargo ships.

Training in navigation was not much more than sail west from US then turn left at this point then run right here to reach which ever Australian city they were aiming for. Am sure my ships navigation teachers were exaggerating but …..

For docking due to lack of skills they would fire the rockets with lines than pull themselves to the dock. It worked but the Australian dockers were not impressed and threatened to strike if they did not stop as it had come close to injuring a few of them. The story as far as my teachers went was the pilot boats then carried out crew who could dock a ship so the rockets were not required any more

This was told to me in the seventies when the teachers were people who had been there at the time. They had a lot of stories it was figuring out which were real, exaggerated or just stories. Really wish I had been smart enough to listen properly and write them down