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Catamarans have something extra....
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:05:01 -0000, otnmbrd
wrote: wrote in news:qaupc3h03p9djjkjr2fidcn3tmfhs02em2@ 4ax.com: Crew of 13? One watch officer, one on the wheel, and one lookout times three shifts. Plus a cook, the skipper, and the chief engineer. Twelve right there. The seven masted schooner Thomas Lawson, had steam winches to work the sails, and a crew of 18, and I believe Lakers mostly have a crew of 29. The engine room crew work a standard 8 hour day with annunciators in the engineer's quarters. Direct engine control from the bridge. At night, two people on watch., maximum. The "autopilot and the chart plotter" steer the boat and the O.O.D. writes up reports and MAYBE there is a man on watch. Say, Captain, two watch keepers X three shifts, Cook, Two deck hands and a three man engineering crew...... Where you folks get your versions of ship's crew is beyond me. No such thing as an OOD on Merchant ships. Engineers have alarms in rooms for duty engineer during night. Auto pilot normally steering but only few have GPS and waypoints inputed to make course changes. Master does not spend his day on bridge. Basically you are repeating what I said - explaining how/why the Maresk boat operated with a crew of 13 people. Annunciators in the engineers quarters, autopilot steering. I did use the term "chart plotter" but you will, note the inverted commas" I have no idea how the bridge crew refer to their electronic navigation system but I'm certainly not naive enough to think that these ships are navigated by sextant. Maresk has the reputation of under stating the capacity of their ships and outside estimates of capacity are in the range of 14,000 TEU's giving a possible cargo capacity of 245,000 tons. Go to www.pancanal.com to watch ships go through the locks in the Panama Canal. Mostly boxboats. The world's freight travels by container. Try and get old fashioned "deck cargo" any more. We were trying to ship a 28 ft. sloop back to the west coast and "luckily" there was a conventional cargo boat that ran back and forth between two ports on the east coast and Phuket, Thailand carrying raw rubber. Otherwise the boat would have to have been shipped on a container carrier and billed at the cost of the number of containers displaced by the boat. Plus the cradle would have to have standard container hold downs and lifting eyes. It ended up as a "no sale" as we couldn't get it back to the U.S. at a cost much less then the selling price. Plenty of "breakbulk" still running.... alternate method to ship yachts is on an "carcarrier" Sure, and how many car carriers do you think are running between South Thailand and the West Coast of the US? The ones that run from around Bangkok are all under contract to Toyota or one of the other Japanese companies and they won't talk to you. Their schedules are coordinated with the factory and the sales forces and they have spare room. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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