Tonka's Skipper Posted July 30, 2013 #4451 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Aweeee.................come on Chief, can't they do it the way we did years ago? *If it doesn't fit, get a bigger Hammer*:rolleyes: AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4452 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Aweeee.................come on Chief' date=' can't they do it the way we did years ago? *If it doesn't fit, get a bigger Hammer*:rolleyes: AKK[/quote'] Yeah, skipper, the "deck department's favorite tool" is I'm sure being used "scientifically", but with the clock ticking and the bill growing, they need the engineers to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clive and anne Posted July 30, 2013 #4453 Share Posted July 30, 2013 So can we have a recap where we are up to. How many port side caissons are yet to be fitted before the parbuckle. Presumably there is still a lot of work to do before the parbuckle begins on or after 7th September. Many thanks Clive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4454 Share Posted July 30, 2013 So can we have a recap where we are up to. How many port side caissons are yet to be fitted before the parbuckle.Presumably there is still a lot of work to do before the parbuckle begins on or after 7th September. Many thanks Clive It appears that only the P13 caisson and the blister work on the bow is still outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkspringtexas Posted July 30, 2013 #4455 Share Posted July 30, 2013 What web cam site do you use for current images? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4456 Share Posted July 30, 2013 What web cam site do you use for current images? Thanks this is the one I use: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=giglio%20news&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CEEQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.giglionews.it%2F2010022440919%2Fwebcam%2Fisola-del-giglio%2Fwebcam-giglio-porto-panoramica.html&ei=2JL3Ub6HM4Hj4AOmhoDwAg&usg=AFQjCNFqt5r-HfayHVeeeELvt0pFnIL-gA you will need to translate from Italian. Sometimes a little hazy and dim at dusk. Detail is not great, but you can also compare with photos from the weekly report. Just go to the "home" tab on the Giglio page, and then scroll down looking for the weekly report. This can only be translated by cutting and pasting into google translate, but the photos are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseaddict5279 Posted July 30, 2013 #4457 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I thought P13 was installed at the last minute before Lone left. Also, is September the date that's been set to start the parbuckle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka's Skipper Posted July 30, 2013 #4458 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Yeah, skipper, the "deck department's favorite tool" is I'm sure being used "scientifically", but with the clock ticking and the bill growing, they need the engineers to fix it. Yeah......Yeah............sure....sure............LOL...You are talking to one mate who operated his own diesel fired boiler, in the midship house of the S/S Pecos. We hauled asphalt and it was used to heat the heating tube oil to be able to pump the stuff! We only let the engineers near it for one reason! AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka's Skipper Posted July 30, 2013 #4459 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Am I correct that there is still underwater work to be done? AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4460 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I thought P13 was installed at the last minute before Lone left. Also, is September the date that's been set to start the parbuckle? Could be, I wasn't watching that close, I just saw it swinging away from the wreck, it looked like it had a caisson onboard. Probably need to wait for the infamous parbuckling site to update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4461 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Yeah......Yeah............sure....sure............LOL...You are talking to one mate who operated his own diesel fired boiler' date=' in the midship house of the S/S Pecos. We hauled asphalt and it was used to heat the heating tube oil to be able to pump the stuff! We only let the engineers near it for one reason! AKK[/quote'] That would be when the Coasties showed up and you needed a fireman's endorsement?:D Always hated those thermal oil boilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4462 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Am I correct that there is still underwater work to be done? AKK I think the P1/P2 blister needs to be done underwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4463 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Just looked at the parbuckling site, and watched the video, which is about a week behind, but had some good data about the blister tank, which should be arriving on site around 8 Aug. Grouting will probably take until mid Aug to the 20th, then the jacks and pre-tensioning cables. Looks like the first week of Sept is still on for parbuckling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka's Skipper Posted July 30, 2013 #4464 Share Posted July 30, 2013 That would be when the Coasties showed up and you needed a fireman's endorsement?:D Always hated those thermal oil boilers. It was pretty much auto pilot and we had a waver from the Coast Guard to let us run it, after the took the Chief boiler course! Which at the end basically said if your not sure call be BEFORE it blows up.;) AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4465 Share Posted July 30, 2013 It was pretty much auto pilot and we had a waver from the Coast Guard to let us run it' date=' after the took the Chief boiler course! Which at the end basically said if your not sure call be BEFORE it blows up.;) AKK[/quote'] I can hear it now (03:00): "Chief, honestly, I didn't touch anything, it just went boom, pop, fizzle. What do you think it is? Can you come look?" Some things have never changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka's Skipper Posted July 30, 2013 #4466 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I can hear it now (03:00): "Chief, honestly, I didn't touch anything, it just went boom, pop, fizzle. What do you think it is? Can you come look?" Some things have never changed. Your closer to the truth then you may know my friend! AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiserfanfromct Posted July 30, 2013 #4467 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Apologies in advance if this has already been posted but thought some might like to read this article just coming out of Italy which reports the projected date for Concordia to be righted to be September 4. There is also mention that the ship will more than likely stay righted at Giglio and not moved until next Spring. Just do a Google translate to get the gist of the article. http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/livorno/cronaca/2013/07/30/news/si-raddrizza-la-concordia-titan-punta-al-4-settembre-1.7502806 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 30, 2013 #4468 Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) Apologies in advance if this has already been posted but thought some might like to read this article just coming out of Italy which reports the projected date for Concordia to be righted to be September 4. There is also mention that the ship will more than likely stay righted at Giglio and not moved until next Spring. Just do a Google translate to get the gist of the article. http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/livorno/cronaca/2013/07/30/news/si-raddrizza-la-concordia-titan-punta-al-4-settembre-1.7502806 Thanks CF; That pretty much paraphrases the video on the parbuckling site. The fact that Micoperi has not returned alongside the wreck suggests to me that there is still a caisson to be installed in a day or two. Edited July 30, 2013 by chengkp75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka's Skipper Posted July 31, 2013 #4469 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Has anyone heard if any of the media groups has announced that they will be filming the parbuckling ??? AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 31, 2013 #4470 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Has anyone heard if any of the media groups has announced that they will be filming the parbuckling ??? AKK I'm hoping to hear about that as well, as I've got to return to the ship in about 10 days, and no internet access for us poor commercial mariners, and won't be back until October. Since Micoperi has returned alongside, and the Lone appears to have left Santo Stefano, my guess that the P13 was not installed is probably wrong. Lone may be on the way to pick up the blister tank. At least you guys won't have to put up with me for a while.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka's Skipper Posted July 31, 2013 #4471 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'm hoping to hear about that as well, as I've got to return to the ship in about 10 days, and no internet access for us poor commercial mariners, and won't be back until October. Since Micoperi has returned alongside, and the Lone appears to have left Santo Stefano, my guess that the P13 was not installed is probably wrong. Lone may be on the way to pick up the blister tank. At least you guys won't have to put up with me for a while.:D I am hoping for maybe some cams mounted on the wreck, something like they do when they sink a vessel for a reef. Chief your a great addition here, you word things much better then I do and you have more up to date details on active sailings that I don't since I am ashore and working from there! Which school did you go to? AKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike.Minh Posted July 31, 2013 #4472 Share Posted July 31, 2013 this is the one I use: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=giglio%20news&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CEEQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.giglionews.it%2F2010022440919%2Fwebcam%2Fisola-del-giglio%2Fwebcam-giglio-porto-panoramica.html&ei=2JL3Ub6HM4Hj4AOmhoDwAg&usg=AFQjCNFqt5r-HfayHVeeeELvt0pFnIL-gA you will need to translate from Italian. We all have our specialities, bringing all this together is what I like about this forum. Here are much shorter links, straight to the webcam, avoiding going via Google, avoiding any adverts around the webcam, just the pic, plain, clean. Cool. http://www.giglionews.com/isoladelgiglio_porto.jpg Hotel sponsored cam here (far less good, stalls often): http://www.giglionews.com/isoladelgiglio_traghetto.jpg Giglio harbour (no view of CC) http://www.giglionews.com/isoladelgiglio.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike.Minh Posted July 31, 2013 #4473 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'm hoping to hear about that as well, as I've got to return to the ship in about 10 days, and no internet access for us poor commercial mariners, and won't be back until October. Since Micoperi has returned alongside, and the Lone appears to have left Santo Stefano, my guess that the P13 was not installed is probably wrong. Lone may be on the way to pick up the blister tank. At least you guys won't have to put up with me for a while.:D Ahh, what a shame to temporarily loosing one of our best contributors, you could have been our mole right at source. Do they at least let you out to get to an internet cafe (I am of course NOT asking out of any self interest whatsoever, just concerned about YOU, naturally :) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 31, 2013 #4474 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Ahh, what a shame to temporarily loosing one of our best contributors, you could have been our mole right at source. Do they at least let you out to get to an internet cafe (I am of course NOT asking out of any self interest whatsoever, just concerned about YOU, naturally :) ) Not much hope of that, it's generally a $20-40 cab ride, each way, from most oil terminals to any source of civilization, and there are not a lot of internet cafes along the Gulf Coast! If they can live telecast some nut-job skydiving from 60,000 feet (or whatever), maybe some network will pick up if not live, then at least some "highlights". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidari Posted July 31, 2013 #4475 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Cheng ... does the info you have given on ship rudder commands apply to every ship ? i am thinking of those with fixed rudders as against those ships with Azipods and those with the extra bits fitted to the rudder to help turning .. the name escapes me of that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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