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Post by DENelson83 on Feb 24, 2009 18:58:14 GMT -8
I've never been on Miss Cold Hit before. Maybe I'll sail on her when she does route 17.
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Post by ferrytraveller on Feb 24, 2009 18:59:24 GMT -8
haha yes, you should have her for twice a year haha
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Post by DENelson83 on Feb 24, 2009 19:01:41 GMT -8
What are you getting at, ferrytraveller?
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Post by DENelson83 on Feb 24, 2009 19:24:14 GMT -8
The NA had better not be moving while not under command.
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Quatchi
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Post by Quatchi on Feb 26, 2009 0:49:23 GMT -8
They could have possibly removed critical equipment to be re + re at Deas while she is away.
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Post by Kam on Feb 26, 2009 8:21:30 GMT -8
Me thinks they didn't want to bring the trained crew of the Norad down from Prince Rupert, just to go from Deas to Esquimalt. I tend to agree. It would cost a lot less to hire a tug and a couple of deck hands than paying an entire crew and transporting them around.
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Post by DENelson83 on Feb 26, 2009 9:31:49 GMT -8
They could have possibly removed critical equipment to be re + re at Deas while she is away. re + re? What does that mean?
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Post by grk on Feb 26, 2009 10:25:06 GMT -8
The New West is out in the strait, heading at 11 knots towards Active Pass @ 10:17 Thursday 26 Feb.
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Post by Nickfro on Feb 26, 2009 16:30:43 GMT -8
They could have possibly removed critical equipment to be re + re at Deas while she is away. re + re? What does that mean? You really don't know? Remove and Replace. Somebody obviously hasn't had any car issues before. ;D Me thinks they didn't want to bring the trained crew of the Norad down from Prince Rupert, just to go from Deas to Esquimalt. I tend to agree. It would cost a lot less to hire a tug and a couple of deck hands than paying an entire crew and transporting them around. I never thought about the notion of having to bring down a crew from Prince Rupert just to make the move to Esquimalt. What would the license be for minimum crew on board for such a move? I also would think that they would have some versatile people in town trained for such a thing.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Feb 26, 2009 17:46:06 GMT -8
[quote author=nickfro board=generaltalk thread=2909 post=97012 time=1235694643You really don't know? Remove and Replace. Somebody obviously hasn't had any car issues before. ;D [/quote] Learn something new everyday. I have never heard of that. My guess was rehab and refit, thinking it was a marine industry term. I didn't own it, but my parents had a third car they kept around and I had pretty much exclusive use of it from when I was 16 to I left for University. A '76 Cordoba with a 400 4 barrel engine that was hot - except it spent more time at the shop then in the driveway .
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Post by Koastal Karl on Feb 26, 2009 22:13:08 GMT -8
I was at Tsawwassen this afternoon early evening and I saw the New West was running so I was wondering if she had been out.
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Quatchi
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Post by Quatchi on Feb 27, 2009 0:10:03 GMT -8
re + re? What does that mean? You really don't know? Remove and Replace. Somebody obviously hasn't had any car issues before. ;D I tend to agree. It would cost a lot less to hire a tug and a couple of deck hands than paying an entire crew and transporting them around. I never thought about the notion of having to bring down a crew from Prince Rupert just to make the move to Esquimalt. What would the license be for minimum crew on board for such a move? I also would think that they would have some versatile people in town trained for such a thing. Actually re + re is REMOVE and RESTORE. Remove and replace is just replace. You cannot replace something without removing it so there is no need for that descriptor, but you can restore something with or without removing it, so you have to give the instruction to remove it or to just restore it in place. For example one or more of the RADs could have been removed to allow the mechanics to rebuild it. They could have taken out navigation equipment, safety equipment, for all we know they could have removed an engine. Cheers,
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Post by Nickfro on Feb 27, 2009 9:10:57 GMT -8
I think there are probably multiple different words for the second 'Re', as 'replace' is the one that I have heard and used throughout my life. I haven't heard 'restore' before, but it makes plenty of sense as well.
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Feb 28, 2009 9:45:17 GMT -8
Queen of Cowichan moved from berth 1 to berth 3 yesterday afternoon (February 27th). This is in preparation for the Northern Expedition's arrival at Departure Bay sometime next week.
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Post by Ferryman on Mar 2, 2009 17:12:11 GMT -8
The Queen of Cowichan appears to be going for a test drive. She was in service for the morning shift in place of the Renaissance. But now the Renaissance is back in service, but 30 mins behind schedule.
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Post by DENelson83 on Mar 8, 2009 0:40:47 GMT -8
She still on just three engines?
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Post by Mill Bay on Mar 8, 2009 16:58:35 GMT -8
She arrived in fair wind conditions, probably sustained around 20 knots or so. It was also very cold. Very cold is an understatement... . It was cold as the arctic, and the winds were strong enough to make it quite a challenge to open exterior doors on the Vancouver's starboard side. Even stranger, while crossing the straight, it was snowing off the port side with a black ugly fog, while on the starboard side it was raining with a clearing sky to the northwest.
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Post by Nickfro on Mar 9, 2009 13:54:22 GMT -8
The Northern Adventure is currently sailing NW in the Strait of Georgia, most likely on her way back to Deas from Esquimalt. The NorAd is sailing under her own power this time, cruising at 15 knots. This leads me to believe that when she was towed to Esquimalt from Deas, it was probably a mechanical issue and not a crewing issue. (aka, the cost to fly a crew down from PR, as discussed in earlier posts)
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Post by WettCoast on Mar 9, 2009 19:59:29 GMT -8
The Northern Adventure is currently sailing NW in the Strait of Georgia, most likely on her way back to Deas from Esquimalt. The NorAd is sailing under her own power this time, cruising at 15 knots. This leads me to believe that when she was towed to Esquimalt from Deas, it was probably a mechanical issue and not a crewing issue. (aka, the cost to fly a crew down from PR, as discussed in earlier posts) Perhaps she was having some sort of issue like last year's water in the lube oil problem that kept the ship out of service for about a week. No matter what I am not expecting BCFS to let us know why they had to have the NorAd towed to Esquimalt.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Mar 9, 2009 21:31:36 GMT -8
I was on the Queen of Vancouver's 3pm sailing from Tsawwassen this afternoon and the Northern Adventure passed in front of us. She was heading to Deas the crew on the Vancouver made an announcement about the Northern Adventure. She had her stern doors open too. I have photos I will upload tommorrow. Also the SOBC was out and about today. I was on the 1pm out of Swartz Bay and we passed her off Tsawwassen. When we arrived back at Swartz Bay around 4:40pm she was just departing.
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Post by blackshadow on Mar 17, 2009 10:06:02 GMT -8
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Post by DENelson83 on Mar 17, 2009 14:37:29 GMT -8
Checked Siitech, and her AIS transponder is still showing her SVG-assigned MMSI and callsign.
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Post by blackshadow on Mar 17, 2009 16:52:16 GMT -8
I heard sea trials don't go well. See never when very far and ran below 10 knots.
She spent over 1 hour drifting around in Departure Bay. I couldn't stay around Departure Bay to find out what happen and to see her dock but did see her drifting about 50 minutes while my kids played on the beach.
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Post by rt1commuter on Mar 17, 2009 19:46:28 GMT -8
Were they looking to go far or faster than 10 knots today?
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Post by herrbrinkmann on Mar 17, 2009 23:04:55 GMT -8
Interesting how rumours start ;-) I just asked, what happened and I was told, that the first trials went well, the reason for drifting was that they rechecked the zero-pitch setting, meaning that they had the engines running and reset the pitch control to exactly zero after the running-in period. That is the simple explanation for not moving for a while.
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