Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

**cuppabillytea** · 21st November 2023, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

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'

Oronsay was 1/4 of the size of a passenger vessel that commonly visits Sydney these days. If a Pilot was to attempt to bring a ship alongside using lines, they would cop a strenuous objection from yours truly.
Typically the lines are made of some some sort of plastic or combinations of different sorts of plastic and have a WWL in excess of 100 Ton. Imagine what would happen to a person in the vercinity of the recoiling line if it parted.
We still protest the use of propellents to send messengers ashore.

**cuppabillytea** · 21st November 2023, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by Homestar

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

Used to take me an Hour to do that. Mind you I was being paid by the Hour and I had to sharpen the chain.

**4bee** · 21st November 2023, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Oronsay was 1/4 of the size of a passenger vessel that commonly visits Sydney these days. If a Pilot was to attempt to bring a ship alongside using lines, they would cop a strenuous objection from yours truly.
Typically the lines are made of some some sort of plastic or combinations of different sorts of plastic and have a WWL in excess of 100 Ton. Imagine what would happen to a person in the vercinity of the recoiling line if it parted.
We still protest the use of propellents to send messengers ashore.

Yep, it would cut 'em in 'arf.

There was a SAHB Mooring Launch there at the time but for some reason it didn't make a difference but would have thought the 2 tugs would have.

Thanks Cuppa.

**cuppabillytea** · 21st November 2023, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Yep, it would cut 'em in 'arf.

There was a SAHB Mooring Launch there at the time but for some reason it didn't make a difference but would have thought the 2 tugs would have.

Thanks Cuppa.

Mooring boat skippers tend to be reluctant to get between ship and shore. I once volunteered to run a head spring ashore for a tanker that he'd lost main propulsion. Things didn't go according to my plan and I had to get out of a diminishing space quick smart.

**4bee** · 21st November 2023, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Mooring boat skippers tend to be reluctant to get between ship and shore. I once volunteered to run a head spring ashore for a tanker that he'd lost main propulsion. Things didn't go according to my plan and I had to get out of a diminishing space quick smart.

Quick smart indeed

It would have just cost you a new Launch to say the least & wet ciggys.

**Tins** · 21st November 2023, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 4bee

We still protest the use of propellents to send messengers ashore.

Depending on where you are, the folks ashore might just shoot back......

**cuppabillytea** · 21st November 2023, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Depending on where you are, the folks ashore might just shoot back......

Ah... That would be why the Evergreen now throw their rubber bullets by hand.

**V8Ian** · 21st November 2023, 09:59 PM

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**4bee** · 22nd November 2023, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

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If they could only mass produce these there wouldn't be a Housing or Rental shortage, but the roads would be buggered when they wanted to go home. Can you imagine trying to park such a thing?

Instead of bridge collisions it would be "Sorry Hossifer my main Bedroom, Fountain & Deck were larger than the Designer told me, but oddly the Pool went under ok."

**4bee** · 22nd November 2023, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by 3toes

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

Maybe they were showing off or doing a Re-enactment.

From memory it was in the sixties or early seventies. A whole bunch went to OH to see them off & sing the Maori Farewell & throw streamers as folk did back then 'cos it was a big deal back then, going overseas.
Oronsay was taking Australian Scouts to the Austrian Jamboree whenever that was held. August 1951

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