Interesting, she’s been rattling back and forth between the UK and Ireland for the last couple of weeks at least. General cargo ship (not many of them left!), Latvian registry, and the AIS has been turned off for the last ten hours. Has previously been registered as Waran, Panda, Urkerland and Nathalie, which explains everything.
And she has a history of this!
You can stand down unless you fancy doing a lot of of baking. The (usually accurate) rumour mill (geddit?) has it that she was carrying wheat from Liverpool to Belfast.
So we need a couple of big stones and a water mill…
I am wondering how she hit the island - it’s quite big and daylight so one wonders how they managed it
And a serial beaching ship too
Indeed one does
“We are an 852 GRT cargo ship, you change course.”
“We are the Isle of Man. Your move.”
That has made me laugh rather a lot.
Yep and the Isle of Man is well anchored
What happens to boat drivers who run into the wrong bit of ground?
Are they disqualified from boat driving?
Apparently the coastguard are to have a go at towing her off this afternoon. We’ll see.
Is anyone treating this as suspicious ?
Seems, as you say Dunnock, to be becoming a habit…
Carinthia.xx
Pore fing thinks it’s a turtle and wants to get up the beach to lay eggs?
The owners were refused an offer by webuyanyship.com ……
ETA: sod it, GoDaddy actually has that domain parked, they must think someone might actually want it …….
Mostly the arguments seem to be over who gets to pay for the boat. High Court Admiralty Division cases have some wonderful bits where it’s clear that both captains were drunk out of their tiny minds, both lawyers know it, but nobody’s going to admit it…
Who knew that the sun Admiralty had its own High Court ?
I have a Mystery.
Oaf had four food dishes, three the same shape in black, cream and purple respectively, and one different model in blue. The black dish has vanished. Cat-sitting friend can hardly have broken it, since it’s plastic, and she’d be very unlikely to have put it absent-mindedly in a pocket. She’s away anyway, but I don’t like to ask as it might sound critical and nit-picking and ungrateful.
Baffled, thass wot I am.
Izzit wot ye had yer porridge in, this morning?
HTH.
Soo xx
TDNH, in fact. Porridge was not consumed, out of anything. But thanks anyway, little Bee.
Gxx
Ship update from a Manx friend:
“Credit to Alex Barlow” I’m told. First refloating attempt has failed.
I love it when tired aphorisms are exploded. A rising tide manifestly does not lift all ships.
He hasn’t eaten it, has he, or is that too Oafish for even him?
Last week, the one year old Alsation belonging to BiL’s GS broke & ate several pieces of his ceramic bowl…
We are not sure if this is because The Boss, GS’ wife was away from home for a few days, but think so.
The vet was bemused, &, Thank God, the dog is ok, but it was a worrying 3 days.
Stainless steel bowls now…
Carinthia.xx
Pretty sure he hasn’t, in that he’s grig as a cricket.
Very glad the dog is ok.
Gxx