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  • ursus arctos
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    Now expected to arrive no earlier than 14h45

    I don't watch local news, but this should be a much bigger thing than it is here.

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  • ad hoc
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    https://twitter.com/borisherrmann/status/1166701359317618689

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  • ursus arctos
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    Larger boats require a pilot to enter the harbour. Smaller ones may well require clearance.

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  • ursus arctos
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    Evidently they are planning to berth in the World Financial Center Marina in Battery Park City

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  • ad hoc
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    The latest instagram post from the captain about half an hour ago (which i don;t know how to link to), says "Waiting to clear in and the start thinking about heading up the river" (I don't know what "clear in" means, perhaps be given some kind of clearance?)

    You can see it by going to the map here and zooming in https://team-malizia.com/en/home/

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  • ursus arctos
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    Hmmm

    Perhaps waiting for more media?

    I guess that there is also a chance that they are waiting for a pilot boat. I don't know where they are planning to berth.

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  • ad hoc
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    They appeared to have stopped (anchored?) just before that bridge as they've been there for an hour-ish now, in the same spot

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  • ursus arctos
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    She's about to pass under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge (between Brooklyn and Staten Island) and already has two media boats with her.

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  • ad hoc
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    Current position. Round about two hours away?

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  • ad hoc
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    I hope that our New York correspondents are in such a place today that they could snap a picture of the Malizia II arriving . I have no idea where it is going to dock

    (The Malizia II is the solar powered racing yacht carrying Greta Thunberg to New York, and due to arrive today - 46 nautical miles away as I write this)

    https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1166621693017776128
    Last edited by ad hoc; 28-08-2019, 08:07. Reason: added tweet

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  • Femme Folle
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    We have a new visitor--The Laurel

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  • ursus arctos
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    It is indeed back and arrived yesterday.

    The river was blissfully free of superyachts during recent family visits.

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  • Femme Folle
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    I thought Ursus was posting that the Aviva is back in our river. I haven't seen it, but Marine Traffic said it was here.

    i have no idea why I added it to my fleet.

    Dear Autocorrect, while I'm sure he would find it amusing, it's annoying that you keep changing Ursus to Jesus.

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  • The Awesome Berbaslug!!!
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    I think when I said "Light", I meant "shade" really didn't I?

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  • The Awesome Berbaslug!!!
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    The interwar history of the US Navy is quite interesting. They may have had no money but they did not fuck around. They seemed to have learned more from the Battle of Jutland than either of the participants. and spent a lot of time on safety and damage control. That turned out to be superimportant, particularly in the first year and a bit of the war when the americans were at the pin of their collar in terms of resources, and aircraft carriers that were hit with enough bombs to sink two ships were miraculously able to make it home and fight another day. Then of course This process started. (This video is fascinating, it takes 17 seconds to go through August of 1943 alone.)

    They also spent a lot of time working on the various problems of operating a navy, almost half a world away, and they spent a lot of time on improving crew conditions and quality of life, because sailors would be gone a long time, and it was going to be hot where they would be going. These floating docks are the other side of that thinking. So when the time came, they had thought the whole thing through, and now just needed to add more ships.

    I was also surprised to discover that the primary purpose of the Washington and london Naval treaties was to cut off an arms race between the British Empire and the US. Thank god for that. Even if they had managed to avoid going to war with each other, the cost of such an endeavour would have severely hammered their economies and reduced their capacity to respond to WwII the way that they actually did. Indeed the US might have been sufficiently hostile to the UK to stay out of the european war entirely.

    I also came across this guy who is the origin of the phrase "a cup of joe". It's worth reading if only for the light it casts on FDR.
    Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 06-08-2019, 20:16.

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  • ursus arctos
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    Some background on the floating dry docks

    Pretty wild stuff

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  • The Awesome Berbaslug!!!
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    Not necessarily a ship from today, or even yesterday. But I saw this picture, and was very impressed.

    [img]http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/014112.jpg[/img]

    Apparently when the US govt wasn't building anything else in 1930, they were building these.

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  • San Bernardhinault
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    That must be 50% of New Mexico's fishing fleet.

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  • ursus arctos
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    No photo, unfortunately, but we just had a small working fishing boat (maybe 25 feet) go up the river flying a New Mexico state flag that was a third of the ship's size.

    Not something we see everyday.

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  • ad hoc
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    They are indeed. First day of our hols yesterday in Helsinki

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  • ursus arctos
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    They are Finnish, aren't they?

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  • ad hoc
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    Especially since it's about 8 hours from the sea

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  • WOM
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    Your little town has quite a port.

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  • ad hoc
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    Icebreakers. No, no, not the training activities used to waste time before actually doing something. Actual icebreakers

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  • caja-dglh
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    BBC is also a massive ship charter company for those looking to move freight.

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