"A helicopter from the Navarra sighted the suspected pirates' boats and ordered them to stop, firing warning shots when they refused to do so."...
What did you find?
No, but when they are slaughtered in their seaside villas by hordes of starving peasants who blame them for their children dying like flies,...
If you run the boat and generate a new set of tables, you will have the answer and surely don't need to do any further guessing and pseudo...
In which case the opposite turning engine should have a firing order of: 1-8-4-5-6-2-7-3 (Which means the flywheel turns clockwise when...
Aside from the risks inherent in sailing small wretched boats across the Indian Ocean, there appears to be little risk of prosecution or...
Do try to keep up Henning. :)
Well, Son of Magellan, if the collision occurred 4 miles off Tybee Island in Tybee Roads then it was well outside the COLREGS demarcation line.
How do you know it wasn't?
You mean like : "The Sea Ray had to be doing something stupid ..." If you could be like me you wouldn't have posted such a stupid statement.
No thanks. I will wait for the facts to be published before making that kind of judgement.
The only thing here that is cut and dried is that your statement is really foolish. First off, the other vessel involved is not a barge. It is...
The prudent mariner knows there is a big difference between "no discharge" and "the discharge of untreated sewage is prohibited."
Actually the language is "from shore." Until 2000, it was legal and common for cruise ships to discharge raw sewage in the waters of the inside...
Geez, I wish I still had the pictures. Several years ago I was sailing on a containership run from Seattle to Hong Kong with a few stops along...
I would describe it in other more colorful terms. .
Like I wrote in #15: "... your shaft is either bent or it's whipping and the lip seal won't last long either." And the babbit bearing is...
Add my contact to the list. A very highly experienced jet boat captain who is also a superb engineer has just finished a contract and is...
What part are you calling the body? If it looks like the second link K1W1 provided, it is a PSS style. The rotor is on the right side of that...
I love it! Next time I'm in PA I'm going to pick up a big box of rockets and drive around at night for a while just to see what happens. The only...