Model Boat Mayhem

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Title: Holiday Snaps
Post by: malcolmfrary on December 08, 2011, 11:50:47 am
Just wondering where to wander to, and heard about this on the car radio, so I went for a look.
It seems it went astray in a storm last night.  All the crew got off OK.
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: Tug-Kenny RIP on December 08, 2011, 03:11:19 pm

Strewth    :o


ken
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: Circlip on December 08, 2011, 03:49:44 pm
A few lads from the Indian subcontinent with Oxy cutting gear and it'll all be gone within a couple of days.

  Regards   Ian.
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: Netleyned on December 08, 2011, 03:57:32 pm
With Metal theft at the level it is I don't think the Indian sub continent guys would be quick enough  :} :} :}

Ned
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: pugwash on December 08, 2011, 04:17:01 pm
Yep if its anywhere near Scouseland the props will be away  when they come to re-float it.
and before you scousers say anything - it would be just the same up here.

Geoff
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: jimmy2310 on December 08, 2011, 04:29:08 pm
Hey! I resemble that remark.  {-)

Jimmy
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: Netleyned on December 08, 2011, 04:30:47 pm
Must be a Diesel Fitter Jimmy  {-)

Ned
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: ixion on December 08, 2011, 05:46:53 pm
Quote from: pugwash on December 08, 2011, 04:17:01 pm
Yep if its anywhere near Scouseland

Its the west coast of Cyprus
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: jimmy2310 on December 08, 2011, 06:00:45 pm
Quote from: netleyned on December 08, 2011, 04:30:47 pm
Must be a Diesel Fitter Jimmy  {-)

Ned

I know exactly what you mean,, Ned my dad was a docker for 20 yrs the nick names some of them had were hilarious.

Jimmy
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: malcolmfrary on December 08, 2011, 06:13:53 pm
Just got back after my afternoon wander and had my food and had a chance to dig a bit.  Its called Edro 111, registered Freetown (probably not the one at Fleetwood, thats Freeport) built about 1966, Albanian owned, about 2500 tons, and 83 metres long.  The lady on the radio seemed quite sure that it should have been 83 feet, but then again, she was probably an arts graduate, and thus uncertain about the difference.
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: ixion on December 08, 2011, 06:23:35 pm
Quote from: malcolmfrary on December 08, 2011, 06:13:53 pm
Its called Edro 111, registered Freetown (probably not the one at Fleetwood, thats Freeport)

Length:  83m
Beam:  14m
Deadweight:  2345t
Draught:  3.8m
Flag:  Sierra Leone

Not sure they will be able to refloat her there is virtually no rise and fall of tide in Cyprus!
Title: Re: Holiday Snaps
Post by: malcolmfrary on December 09, 2011, 07:37:28 am
Yes, when stuff runs aground here its almost always on the equivalent of a high tide - the surge that comes al9ng with a storm.  They've had one wreck a bit south of the new one fror a good few years now that grounded on a reef.  Never been shifted because nobody can agree who is to pay for the job.  The new one is right on the shoreline, though.