Steve:
I don't have answers to any of your questions but I do have a short story:
It was late August 1971....I was working on the CN Marine SV Fredrick
Carter, a rail car carrier......we were to leave North Sydney, NS for
Port aux Basques, Nfld. approx. 100 nm across the Cabot Strait....our
cargo was 38 box cars of dynamite & caps for the mining industry in
Newfoundland and Labrador .....really bad weather forecast....captain
told 'dock office' a.k.a. CN Marine management in North Sydney, he
didn't want to sail.....CN Marine said 'go'.....unexpectedly for CN
Marine management, there was a 'generator failure' aboard ship which
provided the skipper the last say in the matter.....we didn't leave port.
I don't know what happened with this ship but I experienced first hand
how innovative captain's have immense control over their vessels. And
during my time on commercial vessels, I experienced this very situation
more than once. But I am sure there as many times 'management' forces
the vessel to meet timelines.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2015-10-02 7:14 PM, Steve Staten via CnC-List wrote:
A captain wouldn’t do that but an owner sitting in an office might
order a captain to do such a thing. Contracts with penalties for late
delivery are serious things. After all, the Xmas shopping season is
almost here.
I’m not a sailor. I simply bought my boat and sail it in a lake when
the weather’s peachy. However, I have to ask: is it possible that the
container ship either couldn’t turn around in time or that it was not
safe in port? Any merchant mariners on the list?
Steve Staten
Langley, OK, USA
“C’est La Vie”
C&C 27
*From:*CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] *On Behalf Of
*Bill Coleman via CnC-List
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Who in their right mind would take a Container Ship, of all things,
into a known, sitting Cat 4 Hurricane?
Container ship hit by Hurricane Joaquin lost, Coast Guard searching
http://weatherplus.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/10/02/container-ship-hit-by-hurricane-joaquin-lost-coast-guard-searching/
Bill Coleman
C&C 39 Erie, PAanimated_favicon1
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