Bit of a job there JP 😮
Pesky meeces!
But I'm sure you're up to it👍
Keep us posted.
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Roy! Was just driving my oldest daughter around this morning and just swung by the old homestead and took these pix of the sloop/smack. I feel a rescue is in order, to save her from the mice at the very least!

Sounds like a plan Roy.
Look forward to seeing that.
Cheers, Doug😎

Hi Jump... Look forward to Pix to follow!

I am thinking of adapting a yacht hull I have to the deck layout of Spray, as I like the busy and purposeful layout.
It will be the bare hull in 'My Harbour'. But it will need some alteration.
Fingers crossed!
Roy

Morning Roy! My late father had a copy of his book about the house and was a huge sloop fan and would always point out anything afloat even remotely using a similar layout and sail plan especially on our yearly jaunts to Mystic Seaport when I was a kid. I have an ancient sloop rigged lobster smack model that my dad built decades ago (I helped a bit) in his old garage gathering dust and screaming for me to save and restore (pix to follow). I’ve always associated that model with Mr. Slocum. 😉

Mr. Slocum was lost at sea so would never have found out.

Are you a Slocum fan? I love his Spray, but actual plans etc are by surmise only.

Regards
Roy

Honestly, if Joshua Slocum's name was listed I would have picked him. 😉

Landlubber me, thought Chay Blyth, then remembered from a podcast that was Westward, still brave capable sailors!

It’s hard to believe that what he did on a little boat with no sponsorship. One of the greatest sailors ever.

I hope to get an answer or at least a rise😉and I was relieved to find that the maritime navigators know what SOUTHERN CROSS is, besides a CS&N tune😁

In that case Ross, I apologise for the egg sucking lesson!
But you've been with us a while now Ross, so you should have realised that if you ask a question on this site YOU WILL GET AN ANSWER!
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I sorta knew that Doug, I'm just wailing on the question of the day😉

Hi Ross,
Southern Ocean is another name (unofficial and disputed) for the Antarctic Ocean at the bottom end of the South Pacific.
So only a few Light Years from the Southern Cross😊
Cheers, Doug😎

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Southern+Ocean/@-69.7347357,-160.64018,3z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0xa5da7ccb2b9a2d91:0xb2f0be48d8d76199!8m2!3d-68.4380135!4d-160.2340459!16zL20vMDZucXc?hl=en&entry=ttu

Any of the geographers want to tell me where the SOUTHERN OCEAN is? Is that where the SOUTHERN CROSS is?

Thought I had the wordle in three, no clue today. But it's an A not an E.

Hi Austin I agree and as just observers these ships are big and I was thinking about how you would measure the length of such a large ship anyway.
I bet you could do it 6 times and come up with a different answer on each occasion.

It is in line with the perceived tonnage of passenger / cruise ships. The PR people have chosen numbers that are meaningless to promote size to the general public.

Some years ago I was sailing up the Grand Canal in Venice on the Cunard Queen Elizabeth. The Captain told us that the ship was just 3 feet inside the length limit for cruise ships to visit there.

I would have thought displacement (for the wave making) would have been a better guide. However to do this we had a tug in attendance all the way, there and back.

By the way I believe it was Loreto, Irina's sister ship that visited Felixstowe container port last year. I believe they have the same dimensions and carrying capability.

I sit at my laptop and the world moves on and it gets faster as time goes by, and apparently keeps digging up new facts and revealing new ones all the time.

If it would only stop raining I might be out in my shed doing my own ship building!

Regards
Roy

Hi Roy,
Think we could be discussing this till (an old saying) the cows come home.

Seems there are a lot on very large container ships at least recorded by Marine Insight which has Irina at 399.9 meters with beam 61.3m and a few others all in that range or close to it in their top 20. But Ever Given shown elsewhere at 399.94 meters beam 58.8m. Interesting Marine Insight shows Micheal Coppella at 400meters with 61.5 beam. All with different cargo capacity.🤞
Austin

Hi Austin... not according to Google I think Irina may well be as much as 4 inches longer!!!😀😀😀😀
On further thinking as the sun rises a ship that size may well expand in length by a few inches every day and shrink a bit at night as well!

Roy

The Ever Given is the Longest not the largest which is MSC Irina.

The largest container ship isn’t shown in the answers. I reckon it should be MSC Irina

Q. What is the biggest ship to block the Suez Canal

A. Ever Given. (ever stuck)

Correct, I believe Hermank, that that is currently MSC Irina, but members will probably know for sure.

Xtramaths
You are wright and in the meantime it is not the biggest

Non of the above, guessed that this was the only one not passenger based, and made by Evergreen, but looked up current info on Marine Insight, and got; MSC Irina has become the world’s largest container ship, with a capacity of 24,346 TEUs.
But I still learn from members comments 😊

Another 'None of the above'!
Ever Given is one of a class of 7 ships built in 2018/2019 for the Evergreen company with a capacity of 20,124 TEU (Twenty foot containers). Currently ranked 20th.
Her only claim to fame, or better notoriety, is blocking the Suez Canal in 2021.
Was in the news for yonks.

Current top of the list is a class of 6 ships built in 2023, for the MSC company, with a capacity of 24,346 TEU containers. MSC Irina was the First of Class.
Seems that the AI is little behind the times🙄
Cheers All, Doug😎

Three are passenger ships and the other I did not recognise, picked it and it was right.

Acording to a recent check on the Internet she is not even in the top 20!

All the largest are about 1300+ feet long and 200 feet wide. I imagine width is a key factor so that the unloading cranes can stretch out far enough.

However the biggest operator is Mediteranean Shipping Company who own (also the largest) 480 ships and also have 300 on charter.

This is from a total of 5800 container ships in operation around the world.

It is all rather big business! Like I said a while back "interesting trivia".

Roy

50/50 shot. Still got it wrong.😔

I squeezed by on that one!!

Longest river in Canada is Mackenzie😁😀

Gib is very much a city, it has a cathedral and was granted city status in 1842 by Queen Victoria and reaffirmed during the Boris Johnson regime....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62710553

Hi-jump, always best not to mix the grape and the grain.

I do agree a good dark Pinot Noir can make you forget. I used to go to Trade tastings for wines some years ago now. A friend was in the wine trade, and I have tasted some really lovely wines.

I went from 'red wine is all the same' to deciding which year was best for a particular grape. That took about 7 years.

Nice memories!

Roy

Remember the old adage, no doubt said between gritted teeth!

"It is the taking part that counts, not the winning"!

My score is slowly sinking but I still seem to be picking up lots of trivia.
Roy

if I could have put 2 LIKES I would have👍WHAT _ IS KNOWN AS THE GATEWAY TO THE MEDITERRANEAN? Who makes up these questions?

WHAT IS THE LONGEST RIVER IN CANADA?
RED , ST LAWERENCE , NIAGARA , MACKENZIE

I understand that Gibraltar is both a city and country part of the U K.🤔

Of course if you come in via Suez.....

Roy

Dropping like a stone...Pinot Noir and Scotch. Bad move on my part. 😜

The problem is my score goes down again with no other imputs on my part. Are we penaluzed for skipping questions in the overall average?

Mine went up just a click, I was lucky as I had just got a book on the Titanic.

My score just went up a bunch😁

Why do I have 2 separate scores for the question of the day? It shows up as 68% then 87% a day or two later. It does not seem to be caused by wrong answers. Is this happening to anyone else? 🤔

That one was a stroke of luck, I have just picked up a book on the Titanic. 👍👍

I was going to go with Deep, but fortunately it was not an option... then I realized that it was a relative answer anyhow.😁

You know where you are with Titanic as an answer option!
Roy

But maybe it WAS the Indian Ocean?🙄

Happy New year y’all!!😀

Of course!

If I answer U S S Nimitz can I get that answer marked correct too?😉

Just goes to show how vulnerable we all are to having our legs pulled🤔
Reckon I'll be walking in circles all day tomorrow😐
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Agopoly accepted Bill,😉
Pinch and a kick for being so quick!😁
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