Dunroamin Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 http://www.manxradio.com/newsread.aspx?id=74440 Serious breakdown in the rudder and no one available to look at it until after the holidays......attemtping to bring Seacat out of winter hibernation and Steam Packet offices inundated with concerned travellers............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminal Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 That's it. I'm off to Tesco to buy all the toilet roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paswt Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 also posted on "racket' thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 England is maroooned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 You couldn't make it up! The biggest problem is going to be getting the Arrow back. I thought the Arrow has been sub chartered. Is going to be a fun time, can't see any deliveries either food or anything else for a while. The Ben will be lucky if it's fixed by second week of January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Now you see how important it is to shower money on the farmers so they can send offspring to KWC ensure essential food supplies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 You couldn't make it up! The biggest problem is going to be getting the Arrow back. I thought the Arrow has been sub chartered. Is going to be a fun time, can't see any deliveries either food or anything else for a while. The Ben will be lucky if it's fixed by second week of January. Arrow is not on charter anywhere, it's in dock in Liverpool near to Manannan, the earliest they could move if they were ready is the afternoon tide after about 2pm, but I guess they have to get crew in the right place and other checks apart from any work which was going on for its winter overhaul. Maybe Arrow will the ready first ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunroamin Posted December 27, 2014 Author Share Posted December 27, 2014 also posted on "racket' thread Appreciated but think this is worthy of its own thread even if the IOM Today has ignored it.............perhaps the biggest story of the holidays where there are so many relatives here or in the UK visiting family! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paswt Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 not having a 'pop' Dunroamin ,just saying, agree that it's "worthy of it's own thread". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Stevens Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 In my shipping days you could roughly say that at fifteen years a ship was on its way out...Then you had extra insurance premiums commencing at fifteen years...The Ben is said by some to be good up until twenty five years....I have my doubts.... I was surprised to see two cross channel ferries re-metalled and re-engined at 25 years but they may well have been built to higher class and replacement costs are a factor as is time.... I still reckon that if you work on fifteen years and no more than twenty before replacing or disposing of a ship then you can't go far wrong but at fifteen years plus the Ben is starting to get equivalent health problems that we all get...aches, pains, joints, knees, back, creaks, groans, moans... Many ships for decades now have to be built with a production line in mind. ie a simplistic standard utilitarian design that can be tailored to some extent and parts and work sub-contracted and assembled on site.. They are thus a bit limited. You get what you pay for.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxlass Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Christmas ruined for lots of people stuck both sides. I know you can't help breakdowns but plans should be in place for when things do happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 With all the advancements in technology, you'd think things would have improved yet we now have less ships, less reliability, less routes, and higher prices. Bring back the wooden ships with sails and the steam engine ships wihch would sail in any weather and could be repaired by people here on the Isle of Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Stevens Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I see on line that MV Arrow apparently takes 88 trailers and just twelve passengers? Hey! Even more fun if the Ben cannot be fixed in Douglas and has to be towed away! Even more fun if the weather confines the fast craft and no RoPax can be chartered because its hard to find them small enough to get into Douglas harbour and the Ben is out of commission for two weeks or more! Maybe another Irish Sea line has a small enough ferry and can call in for a temporary service...Or one that does the Highlands and Islands in Scotland....sort of evacuation....? Is there any moral or other obligation I wonder to charter aircraft and get at least some people off the rock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Stevens Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Your modern ship can be a bit like car...All sealed...automatic...run from the bridge like an aircraft flight deck...Needs a computer to operate it at all and to diagnose the fault a man with a computer...But considering its age and use the Ben has held up very well for a single ship mickey mouse coasting outfit with no real spare capacity and a market not big enough to support very much investment in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 With all the advancements in technology, you'd think things would have improved yet we now have less ships, less reliability, less routes, and higher prices. Bring back the wooden ships with sails and the steam engine ships wihch would sail in any weather and could be repaired by people here on the Isle of Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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