It is Seafarer's Day, which is celebrated world wide by active seafarers: http://gcaptain.com/ship-photos-of-t...2#.VY_MwvmqpBc
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I wonder why T.V., when a tiddler, didn't consider the sea as an alternative to the road??Ivy
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Gosh, is Thijs that old?!
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Ivy
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He doesn't have to be that old to have gone to sea when the standard contract was 18 months on ships that never called at European ports.
If the ship was in Far East trade two years were the norm. Many stayed on board for years on the same ship, or stayed in a foreign port between ships. -
Standard contract 18 months to two years - I wouldn't describe that as "At sea you went away for years". Short term stuff.
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the Vink family had some truckdrivers,no sailors.so i went on the truck in the holidays.
but decades back when i was young,at school i wanted to sail on a Smit tug,seeing the world.
but at the end i just became a stupid truckdriver.a roadblock in the eyes of car drivers.best regards ThijsComment
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Take another trip on a Mearsk Container Ship in double fast time. This time from Saigon (HCM), Vietnam to Ningbao, China: http://gcaptain.com/amazing-4k-time-...2#.VeW_VvaqpBcComment
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This well-put together video from COSTA FAVOLOSA would perhaps fit well under the title Life onboard.... at least it makes me want to go cruising (NOW)....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwViQ48CRgYWith best regards from Jan-Olav Storli
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Want to join me on a fast boat to China??
A trip throught HK waters to Chiwan on a Container ship: http://gcaptain.com/time-lapse-frida.../#.VisC1fkrKUk
This trip you have been on many times, but on a launch, or HSC, not on a Container ship.
Arriving Singapore on East bound voyage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_KlgT2bhM
Leaving Pasir Panjang Terminal in Singapore, East bound through Singapore Strait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvtLH0lMvwComment
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Umm-mm-mmm. Enjoyed those. Got sidetracked partway through watching some Spitfire videos but got back just in time to leave Pasir Panjang Terminal.Ivy
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This thread has been dead for a while. Time to get back onboard a Container ship again, this time on a trip from the Red Sea to HK, via port stops in Colombo and at the now defunct Tg. Pagar terminal in Singapore: http://gcaptain.com/watch-thundersto...eid=4674ba0fbeComment
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I saw that one on gCaptain too.... absolutely stunning piece of work. I can't imagine all that editing work to make it fit into such a great film... the computing power to be able to handle 80.000 photos must be pretty great!Originally posted by ombugge View PostWith best regards from Jan-Olav Storli
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I'm not quite sure if "JOY" is the right word though....Originally posted by ombugge View PostWith best regards from Jan-Olav Storli
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The British Royal Navy may have done away with the daily tot of rum for the everybody but they still know how to survive long voyages on their ships:
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-du...d-new-carrier/
Maybe they should have had a better drinking culture for their crews while visiting foreign ports though:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45463703
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