trysail
Catch Me Who Can
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Sailboat folk dread the thought of those damn containers floating about submerged and invisible to the eye.
That is horrifying!
I presumed they all sank, but now that I think about it....
It'd be like unmeltable growlers or something.
END THE BOXBERG MENACE! But how?
Little known facts about Jim since this is a ship thread.
The JAJ was the senior member of the BECCE Team (Basic Engineering Casualty Control Excercise) and earned at the time the highest score ever give by LANTFLEET PEB. (Atlantic Fleet Propulsion Examination Board). Your ship couldn't leave the pier unless you passed their exhausting drills.
My wife is do proud.
Wild Thing
I've sailed on Wild Thing and that's not her.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?centerx=30¢ery=25&zoom=2&level1=140
N 17°01'11.33"
W 061°46'42.59"
There's an Express 34 in Seward harbor named Wild Thing.
Ahhh, that explains it. You and I will have to insist that the respective owners submit to binding arbitration on the names of their vessels so there's no chance of confusing the two in the future ( other than a mere 13 meters of LOA !! )
Go to the satellite view and look where HAPPY THAURUS is
Happy Thaurus may need a thaw.
Srsly— I know it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere but somebody needs to have their head examined. As far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as "too hot."
ETA: I wonder where the damn receiver is located that's picking up Happy Thaurus' signal ?
Home port
N 39°15'22.28"
W 076°33'44.79"
USNS Comfort:
Early 1400's Chinese treasure ship - like the ones in the fleet that circumnavigated the globe in the 1420s.
I read Gavin Menzies' book and did not find the argument or the evidence for his hypothesis compelling.
See, this is the kind of stuff JAJ likes.
What about this JohnnySausage character?
Hard to expain that one.