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

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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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