Just had a letter from the company to say we must drive more carefully with our ships as they have just received 2 claims - one for damage to a jetty and the other for knocking down a crane - of a mere $50,000,000. Makes our motoring bumps pale into insignificance doesn't it! Of course those claims
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I hope they've got protected no claims Tim.

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Thankfully no TB................ The problem for big companies like the one I work for is that they set the deductable really high (not that high though!) but basically that is the cost of a new ship the size of the one I am on! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Drive more carefully?

I have this mental image of these hooligan captains haring around the high seas, doing powerslides and handbraking into their quays  

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Don't you have PDC Tim



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Jay yes I have PDC onboard - both MANual and electronic................. had radar forward and also a crewman standing in the bow and stern who is supposed to tell me the distance to the nearest ships when we are manouvring into a berth. Sometimes the port ops folks get their tapemeasures twisted up and try to slot us into a parking space that is too short though and often pilots think the ship can be manouvred like a car.

Shmoogle - handbrake turns are great fun but you need a lot of space. Doughnuts are even more fun and we have to practice them as they are part of our safety set-up in the case of having to lower our emergency boat for a man-overboard They create a huge calm area inside the turn which is ideal for sending away the lifeboat and they also slow the ship down very very quickly - a normal "emergency" stop would take 14 minutes to complete but if you stop the engine and do a doughnut the ship will come to a halt in about 10 minutes problem is that as you slow down the turning circle increases hugely to about 1.8miles across from about 1 mile...............
We don't encourage such reckless driving normally but there are times when we have to play! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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It's a different world isn't it!  

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I always remember a clip in the "Navy News" (Royal Navy's own newspaper) about an officer that actually water ski'ed off the back of a Type 21 Frigate.

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TB - you are correct & my mate has done it too.......

In fact I think they were contemplating a world record attempt - most skiers up in one go

Mind you , awsome opportunity & what a great "WAKE" it would leave behind to ski in 
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