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Post by Retrovision on Jun 11, 2007 20:49:41 GMT -8
Welcome to the refuge of the ferry nerds, or feaks as I like to refer to us as, mirrlees60 (gotta love those mirrlees twins). We look forward to contributions from all lurkers, especially those who join as members.
Cheers, Graham
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Mill Bay
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Post by Mill Bay on Jun 12, 2007 10:05:15 GMT -8
Hey, with your use of the "...." to separate your thoughts, I feel like we are Brothers, man. ;D Good to have you on this forum. ps: Didn't I see you at the Semicolon-Symposium in London last year? I don't know about the Semicolons-Symposium, but I'm sure the elipsis police are after me in more than one country. I have to separate my thoughts like that, otherwise they all look the same, or run together so much that I can't tell them apart. At least the use of dots is a trait I share with someone. Cheers
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Mill Bay
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Post by Mill Bay on Jun 12, 2007 10:08:50 GMT -8
I also forgot to mention that I really like the Chilliwack tooo... obviously of course because I'm from Chilliwack. There was no small buzz around here (at least from my parents) when we got a ferry named after us.
I just like her design (from the outside at least)... and also the only time I was on her (years ago) was the first time I was actually allowed to roam free on a ferry by my parents... so I pretty much explored her inside and out, as much as any kid can.
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Post by Retrovision on Jun 12, 2007 10:46:47 GMT -8
Speaking of brotherly ties, it seems that you and I also have a bit of a connection, Mill Bay; apparently I'll turn a quarter of a century old a day before you.
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Mill Bay
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Post by Mill Bay on Jun 18, 2007 17:02:14 GMT -8
Speaking of brotherly ties, it seems that you and I also have a bit of a connection, Mill Bay; apparently I'll turn a quarter of a century old a day before you. Wow, that's crazy... I didn't realize that... Perhaps we should all plan a special ferry trip around that day... or maybe get Bcferries to send us a greeting card or something... maybe a free ferry trip.
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Nick
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Chief Engineer - Queen of Richmond
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Post by Nick on Jun 19, 2007 1:05:14 GMT -8
Hi, I'm a mechanical engineering student and I have always been a ferry nerd, ever since I could read. My favourite ferry is either MV Mill Bay or MV Skeena Queen. The Mill Bay has always intrigued me since it has the highest speed per horsepower in the fleet (8 knots/152 horsepower). The hull design on the Skeena has always impressed me as well.
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Post by Coastal Drought on Jun 19, 2007 1:48:54 GMT -8
Welcome to the forum coxnick. Have discussing the many topics here.
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Mill Bay
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Post by Mill Bay on Jun 19, 2007 8:15:08 GMT -8
Hi, I'm a mechanical engineering student and I have always been a ferry nerd, ever since I could read. My favourite ferry is either MV Mill Bay or MV Skeena Queen. The Mill Bay has always intrigued me since it has the highest speed per horsepower in the fleet (8 knots/152 horsepower). The hull design on the Skeena has always impressed me as well. Hi and welcome. M.V. Mill Bay is cool of course for obvious reasons. A unique and distintive vessel, and the most appropriate name I could find for my own covert identity on this board. I'm sure as an engineering student you'll be able to contribute a lot of important knowledge to these posts... maybe if you're lucky you might even end up working on the ferries someday.
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Post by Balfour on Jun 19, 2007 18:41:58 GMT -8
Welcome aboard!
We have a member on here that used to post regularly about the Mill Bay and wanting to keep the ship and run it with another vessel such as a pacificat and other rediculous ideas.
The Mill Bay is a fine ship and I hope to get on her some day.
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Post by Retrovision on Jun 19, 2007 19:58:11 GMT -8
Passenger lounge below decks aboard a 'minor' vessel of the fleet? who among us would object?
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Post by Coastal Canuck on Jun 25, 2007 21:49:47 GMT -8
I have been around since November. This morning I made my 100th post. Could someone please explain to me what the purpose of the Chief Steward, Chief Officer, Global Moderator etc. thing is about
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Post by Balfour on Jun 25, 2007 22:13:04 GMT -8
I have been around since November. This morning I made my 100th post. Could someone please explain to me what the purpose of the Chief Steward, Chief Officer, Global Moderator etc. thing is about We have ranks based on the amount of posts you have. You will move up another rank to Chief Officer once you hit 250 posts, Chief Engineer at 500 and Captain at 1000. Moderators are responsible for dealing with content and with spammers, while the 2 Global Moderators carry moderator responsibilities and also make more of the major decisions on the forum. The Administrator is the founder of the forum.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 26, 2007 6:01:40 GMT -8
I have been around since November. This morning I made my 100th post. Could someone please explain to me what the purpose of the Chief Steward, Chief Officer, Global Moderator etc. thing is about They are different rankings, based on your # of posts. The more posts, the higher the fake position. So you keep getting promoted. Now, the moderator and administrator positions are different, because they are not related to # of posts. They are just staff classifications for those of us who do some of the housekeeping work on this board. ------------------------ Seeing as I just now noticed that Jordan has already responded to your question, I'll let you average our 2 responses.....
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Post by Barnacle on Jun 26, 2007 7:04:49 GMT -8
Though I always felt that Moderators should be Port Engineers, Global Mods should be Port Captains, and Administrator should be Commodore... ;D
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Nick
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Post by Nick on Jul 15, 2007 0:50:19 GMT -8
Thought I should chime in again here and say that for the summer at least, I am working in the engineering dept. at BCF!
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Post by ferrytraveller on Jul 15, 2007 21:04:49 GMT -8
are you working as an engineer? or an oiler?
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Nick
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Post by Nick on Jul 15, 2007 21:46:51 GMT -8
Sorry, should have elaborated.
Fleet engineering at head office.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 15, 2007 21:51:27 GMT -8
Sorry, should have elaborated. Fleet engineering at head office. Just out of curiousity, do you have any idea if this here forum is "well known" at all, at head office? I'm not asking if my avatar photo is on the coffee room bulletin board (or on a darts board in the staff room ;D), but just wondering if this forum, or other "ferry fan" type of banter goes on at work...or with your co-workers. Or is such ferry-nerd-banter kept quiet in the workplace?
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Nick
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Post by Nick on Jul 17, 2007 20:08:53 GMT -8
most ferry-nerd banter is generally kept quiet. I have never heard of any forums or discussion groups mentioned, but I don't go talking about it either.
My boss is wondering how I can find out ship movements/rumours and other ferry-nerdish info before he does though.
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Post by Hardy on Jul 17, 2007 22:50:08 GMT -8
My boss is wondering how I can find out ship movements/rumours and other ferry-nerdish info before he does though. I personally would just grin and cackle evilly "Bwahahahahahahahaha" and then walk away without further explanation. But that is just me ... may not work as well for sane people as it seems to for me .... "Never let them know when your joking - let them always live in fear!"
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Post by stvfishy on Aug 5, 2007 20:52:28 GMT -8
I think that a lot of us are saying that nothing is "written in stone" re BC Ferries. Who knows where the vessels will actually be placed, and whether that placement will be temporary, a few years, or longer...... However, a lot of us on this forum-board enjoy discussing any new possibility for vessel placement. But I think that most of us realize that none of us really know what will actually happen. But it is fun for most of us to talk through the possibilities and what that might mean to us. =-----------------------------= Welcome Mr/Ms Stvfishy. Are you new here, or is it just that your username is new? If you'd like to introduce yourself, you'll find a thread on the "rules and recommendations" page for that. --->feel like I got my hand slapped(I think)? After going through the Rules/Regulations, I'll just keep plowing through the bugs. I hope I did the above quote properly. BTW: Out of curiosity and to instigate some procedural discussion, is this forum's spell checker for English(Canada) or Ammerrrican(the States)? Reading the WSF threads, those guys down south don't know how to spell "colour." Is your convention to use Ammerrrican in the WSF threads and English in the BCFS threads? ;D I know, I know eh. When I get software in Ammerrrican I usually go and manually change the root files in the code whenever possible. Forgive me--->How is that... I apologize, but it does make you go
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Aug 5, 2007 21:06:14 GMT -8
I think you may want to talk to the monkey in the whitehouse and tell him we should all learn queens english. Probably the only thing which is weird is how the letter "z" is pronounced in queens english. We have a "z and long e" where as in queens it is a "z and short e" In fact, when I was up in Canada, some people thought I was from Eastern Canada.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 5, 2007 21:12:44 GMT -8
No "hand slapping" from me, Mr. Fishy. I welcome you aboard here.
re the 2 versions of English, I think the forum's spell-check program uses USA English.
Of course, I just ignore the suggested corrections to "harbor" and "color".
I mainly use the spell-checker to ensure that I haven't done a typo that I was unaware of.
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Post by stvfishy on Aug 5, 2007 21:27:36 GMT -8
OK
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Post by Retrovision on Aug 5, 2007 23:25:06 GMT -8
Welcome, stvfishy. Does this happen to refer to suspicions about the prospect of Single Transferrable Vote? ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferrable_Vote) If it is, I'd be interested in hearing you views as I don't know enough yet to form an opinion (in an appropriate thread, of course, heh). In any case, welcome to our humble ferry forum and enjoy the banter.
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