BoatBanter.com - Overloaded ship? You decide.....

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 10:12:51 -0400, Gene Kearns penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On 8 May 2007 11:10:48 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

What's that idiot doing in that pleasure boat in the first photo? He's
much closer than he should be.

Wow! Somebody is reading rec.boats!

I just checked my email after a few days away from the computer and
had a note from Susan Clizbe, the Communications Manager at North
Carolina State Ports Authority. She states, in part:

"The "idiot in the pleasure boat" was indeed the media boat we
chartered, skippered by a very experienced owner with assistance from
the youngest unlimited-tonnage captain licensed by the U.S. Coast
Guard. They were in direct and constant communication with the Coast
Guard, being very careful to stay behind the ship and out of the way
at all times."

Here's a bit more info:
http://tinyurl.com/354fr6

Susan Clizbe continues with further information:

"In answer to the later question about the Plimsoll line, see this
schematic. The ship was ballasted down to minimal freeboard only a
few miles downriver, in order to clear the Progress Energy lines that
cross just south of the port. It looked a little funny to see the
ZPMC logo half submerged, but that was normal. The ship is
submersible, although of course that's normally while it's stopped.
The crane booms were also lowered from the full boom-up position
(which makes them 345 feet tall from the ground, or deck of the ship
in this instance) to make the power-line clearance. Because of the
power lines, our cranes were packed down between their legs with the
booms up, instead of being shipped fully erected and boomed down as is
usually done. With the booms down, they are 480 feet wide.

In any event, that poster was absolutely correct: everything about the
trip around the world was indeed very carefully calculated long in
advance. If you didn't see the crane arrival page, it's pretty
interesting too, including both schematics and a photo of the ship at
anchor off Southport waiting for the weather to improve (notice the
freeboard as indicated by ZPMC on the side of the ship). And I'm
particularly proud of the tracking map, where we followed her all the
way around, There's also a photo of the cranes leaving Shanghai,
along with the two that were dropped off in Jamaica before they
arrived here - notice that they are fully erected, and also note the
abundant freeboard. "

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Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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