Heh Shen.... what's the average time for a Trans- Atlantic crossing from
Lisbon to Halifax? I'm expecting a sailboat delivered by ship. It was loaded
Friday the 7th and the expected departure is for Sat. the 8th.?

I'm keeping an eye on the Port Authority website to see when the Argonau
arrives.

Thx

CM


"Shen44" wrote in message
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| bject: Green flash at totality
| From: "Simple Simon"
| Date: 11/08/2003 18:33 Pacific Standard Time
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| But, if I recall correctly, Cousins was at the helm because
| Hazelwood was passed out drunk. Well the blame should
| be on the captain's shoulders. Navigating through a reef
| should not have been taken so lightly by a real captain.
|
| S.Simon.
|
|
| As I said, you don't know what happened.
| Cousins' was the Mate on watch. Hazelwood, was not "passed out drunk".
Cousins'
| should have been qualified to do the necessary navigation (hell, his
license
| was so far above yours), but he made a 3M, mistake. They were not
navigating
| through a reef, but down a traffic seperation scheme and were maneuvering
| around ice.
| The only part of your nonsense that I agree with, is that Hazelwood,
should
| have stayed on the bridge until they cleared the ice, but, the 3M should
have
| been able to handle and perform any needed navigation, to get clear of
this
| area. Hell, it was simple coastal navigation, that even a newbie, such as
| yourself, should have been able to handle. Problem was, he made the same
| mistake so many newbie's make .... he didn't confirm that the ordered
course
| change had actually been carried out, as ordered.
| Once, when rounding Point Conception, I watched my 3M order a course
change to
| stbd, to head North (just happened to be on the bridge). Rather than give
right
| rudder to come right, the QM gave left rudder, to G come the long way,
to the
| new heading. No problem, except there was traffic to port. The 3M went to
the
| chart room to plot his position, without monitoring what was happening,
and I
| let things go ...... BG .... at a certain point, I called the Mate and
| suggested he might want to check what was going on .... he freaked and
said,
| Captain, it's yours ! I said, F*** You, you screwed it up, you fix it! LOL
he
| did. Needless to say, we had a long discussion afterwards ....twas a good
| lesson learned and he ended up being a good Mate.
|
| Shen