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trysail said:


It looks like he's adjusting the headsail leech line on what appears to be an older Beneteau 46 or 51.
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You may be right :) but he may be posing for the camera ;)
Where's his life-jacket, OMG - no one has one on!? I would have got my arse kicked!
it's a 461 - well ID'd :)
 
stickygirl said:
You may be right :) but he may be posing for the camera ;)
Where's his life-jacket, OMG - no one has one on!? I would have got my arse kicked!
it's a 461 - well ID'd :)
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I usually don't wear a PFD when crewing on a boat with decent lifelines.
 
thør said:
The Healy and the Esperanza are in port at Dutch Harbor.
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Ahh, that explains the abundant fruits and nuts.





ETA: If we're really, really lucky Esperanza will make an attempt to obstruct or harass Xue Long. :devil:


 
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trysail said:

Ahh, that explains the abundant fruits and nuts.





ETA: If we're really, really lucky Esperanza will make an attempt to obstruct or harass Xue Long. :devil:
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The Xue Long should be in Iceland by now, or at least, close.
 
trysail said:


Quite the paint scheme on the Tor Viking II:



http://gcaptain.com/aiviq-waits-in-dutch-harbor/


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"The Tor Viking II, though registered in Sweden, is operated by Norway’s Trans Viking. She is well-known in the Aleutians for the rescue of the bulk carrier Golden Seas, which the Tor Viking II towed through rough seas to Dutch Harbor and safety on Dec. 5, 2010."

From the Dutch Harbor Telegraph.
 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/delays-leave-shell-with-only-weeks-to-drill-in-arctic.html




http://www.bloomberg.com/image/i2eLssBKLXvM.jpg
An artist's rendition of the Arctic Challenger barge.
The vessel needs at least 14 days to get from Bellingham,
Washington, to the exploration area, Shell said.
Source: Superior Marine Technical Services
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Delays Leave Shell With Only Weeks to Drill in Arctic
By Kasia Klimasinska
August 20, 2012

Royal Dutch Shell Plc has spent seven years and $4.5 billion, and fought off at least 50 lawsuits, for a chance to tap what is thought to be the biggest source of oil in the U.S. outside of the Gulf of Mexico.

With the last of more than 30 permit applications still pending, time is running out to get much drilling done off the coast of Alaska before having to stop for winter.

Even if the U.S. Interior Department granted the final permit this week another 14 days would be needed to get a specially designed barge to the area. That means work the company had planned to have under way in July couldn’t begin until September. Drilling has to end by Sept. 24 in the Chukchi Sea, and Oct. 31 in the Beaufort Sea -- and can’t resume until July under the terms of permits it has already obtained.

“It seems to me that we are getting closer and closer to the point where they might not be able to do anything this year,” Philip Weiss, an analyst at Argus Research Co. in New York, said Aug. 17 in a telephone interview. “They’re running out of time.”

Permits, Lawsuits
Shell, based in The Hague, is seeking to be the first company to drill in the federally controlled U.S. arctic waters in two decades. It has spent $4.5 billion to obtain drilling rights, purchase equipment and procure permits from various federal agencies in pursuit of an underwater supply of oil estimated to hold more than 20 billion barrels.

“Our goal remains to drill and complete as many wells as time will allow this open-water drilling season,” including beginning wells that can be completed next year, Kelly op de Weegh, a Shell spokeswoman, said in an e-mail Aug. 16.

“We are in communication with a number of agencies and are considering our options,” she said. “We will make the most of the time we have this season.”

Shell’s drilling season is limited by the harsh Arctic climate. The Sept. 24 and Oct. 31 deadlines imposed by the Interior Department are based on historic patterns of ice formation and include time to clean up any spills before winter conditions make such work nearly impossible...

High Stakes
“The stakes are so high, and the upside of producing oil from the Arctic is potentially so high, that they may actually go ahead and decide to do as much as they can this year,” Tad Patzek, professor and chairman of the Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin, said in an interview. “I think they’re going to just put a flag, so to speak, on the sea floor.”

An Arctic well takes two weeks to a month to drill, according to Patzek. It’s a costly endeavor: Shell’s expenses include leasing the Noble Discoverer drilling rig from Noble Corp. for $240,000 a day, along with about two dozens other vessels, according to the two companies.

“It would be better off just saving that money and putting it toward next year,” said Jackie Savitz, senior campaign director at the Washington-based environmental group Oceana that opposes the drilling. “But then, they could also say -- ‘But, you know what, let’s just go ahead and do it so we can kind of, you know, sort of smooth the way for what we want to do next year.’”

Two Wells
Shell’s exploration plans originally called for 10 wells -- five this year and five next -- with work beginning last month. Ice that remained longer than usual and Coast Guard concerns with the spill-containment barge, the Arctic Challenger, delayed the start and caused Shell to cut the number of wells planned for this year from five to two.

Arctic Challenger is still in Bellingham, Washington. It was designed to help contain an oil spill, as required by new safety requirements imposed by the U.S. after the 2010 BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Coast Guard is waiting for Shell to fix deficiencies found in the safety systems, Jamie Frederick, a Coast Guard spokesman, said in a phone interview on Aug. 17.

Nobody has drilled in federal offshore areas north of Alaska since the early 1990s, when lower oil prices reduced potential profits.

Once the Coast Guard approves the barge, Shell will have to demonstrate its oil-containment system in open water, op de Weegh said. A similar test on another device earlier this year took only a day, and it should be the last step before obtaining the final permit, she said.

“It’s a necessity for Shell to be able to demonstrate that they have met regulatory requirements,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters on Aug. 13 in Anchorage. If the company fails, “there won’t be Shell exploration” this year, he said.



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/delays-leave-shell-with-only-weeks-to-drill-in-arctic.html
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...for-takeovers-as-financing-fades-freight.html



Heavy Shipping...
By Alex Webb
August 24, 2012

...Heavy-lift ship, which transport everything from giant trucks used in Colombian mines to General Electric generators and 75-meter (245-feet) blades for Siemens AG wind turbines...

...A Panamax container vessel -- of a size able to pass through the Panama Canal -- would have been making about $55,000 a day in 2008, more than twice the $20,000 from a multipurpose craft such as a heavy-lift ship... While following the global slump a Panamax vessel might now be earning only $10,000, revenue in the multipurpose segment is almost as high, at about $9,000 a day...

...The most powerful deck-mounted cranes are able to load items in excess of 2,000 tons and vessels can have a deadweight -- a measure of cargo capacity -- of 25,000 tons or more...



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...for-takeovers-as-financing-fades-freight.html
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