RENAMED THREAD: The Korsfjord, and the official FLAKK-RØRVIK thread.

[Sterkoder]

Nice christmascards you've made there, Jan-Olav! Merry Christmas to you from the bottom of my heart!!

[Speedbird]

Merry Christmas Jan-Olav and have a good watch! I`ll have a drink for you tonight!

[PoloUK]

Hey - how about that - Korsfjord hits the papers!!

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/sortro...cle1748613.ece

"MF Korsfjord served the stretch Flakk to Rørvik alone this third Christmas day [27th]"

[Seagull]

"MF Korsfjord served the stretch Flakk to Rørvik alone this third Christmas day [27th]"

It warms your heart to see that doesn't it Mark. I've just been "off duty AIS watch" over lunch (I know......no wonder I am always so behind with absolutely everything!) but I see Tidefjell is now at Flakk, so it's two ferries again. I went to bed early last night, content in seeing Korsfjord safely tucked up at Lade...as I mentioned OT in Ålesund thread, she set off early this morning (even before I got up 04:30 UTC ...wide awake after going to sleep too early!). But this is Tuesday change over day, so goodness knows whether our Captain is on "days" or "nights" right now...at this holiday time of year and in these weather conditions I doubt that anything is as "normal"...
Oh, I just realised Glutra is now at Lade, I wonder if they have to bunker back there instead of at Flakk, or simply can't have two ferries moored at Flakk because of the wind.
Meanwhile NX is at the Hurtigruten Quay and TF and KH at Ila...

[ehp]

Cecilia...he's on days this week. Gets finished on January 2nd. Just switched to days yesterday...Was supposed to have most of Christmas Day off and was going to his Dad's then back to the ferry---I think........ Glad you have AIS going...I didn't know about the weather.....bet he's just thrilled....................................

[ostafjells]

I had the pleasure of meeting J-O onboard Korsfjord on december 26, and he was doing the day shift. Dec 26 was "calm" in the morning, but during the afternoon and evening the wind increased again.

[Seagull]

Hi there E …yes that is Captain’s expected schedule as I understood it to be too from what he said (although I only wondered later if back-to-work time on the Sunday might be different from “normal” because it was Christmas Day).

But then I began to realise from many reports just how extreme the weather has been in so many places all along the Norwegian coast, not only those areas that were first mentioned, and so I checked up for around Trondheim on the AIS…to see how the ferries were doing of course, but also the rare sight to see all those hurtigrutes in Trondheim at the various quays. (That also made me realise that I haven’t entirely grasped in the 3-ferry operation where a ferry on standby is normally moored, especially since bunkering became possible at Flakk.)

Well right now Korsfjord and Glutra are going “back and forth” Flakk-Rørvik, Hurtigrute Midnatsol has left Trondheim and is approaching them, Kong Harald and Lofoten are at Ila, Trollfjord is at the Hurtigruten Quay, and Tidefjell is near Pirbrua!

[Seagull]

Couldn’t resist illustrations to go with that last post! ….


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Korsfjord and Glutra can just be seen, but it would bave been so much nicer if Midnatsol’s webcam had updated a bit later!

And so Korsfjord reached Flakk and was soon off again…


Well I had better switch off all distracting webcams, AIS, weather stuff…etc…because I am supposed to be editing photos and catching up on all that away time I had!!!!!

Oh, did I say, there are severe wind warnings again for here in Edinburgh later today!

[Seagull]

Oh Hi Ostafjells! ...only just noticed your post had popped up when I was taking ages to answer E's while simultaneously messing around with webcams etc.! Love the way you put the word calm in inverted commas!!!!!...everything is relative isn't it!
Safe travels. I gather a recent flight wasn't so calm as the ferry crossing...

[ostafjells]

You're right, Cecilia, the flight home on the 26 th was the worst I have experienced. When even the flight attendants start to look worried, you know it's bad

[HurtigruteMartin]

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/article1748888.ece

Bad weather for "Korsfjord". Pictures and video shot by the trainee on Korsfjord.

[pakarang]

Thank you all so very, very, very much for keeping an eye on me the past two stormy weeks!

Tuesday, December 27th was a WILD day..... ! 42 meters per second, and Captain Storli kept the route running with Korsfjord all throughout the day, apart from a short 15 minute stop due to extra-strong winds.

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/article1748741.ece

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/sortro...cle1748613.ece

http://www.fosna-folket.no/samferdsel/article259553.ece

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/article1748888.ece

[pakarang]

Thank you all so very, very, very much for keeping an eye on me the past two stormy weeks!

Tuesday, December 27th was a WILD day..... ! 42 meters per second, and Captain Storli kept the route running with Korsfjord all throughout the day, apart from a short 15 minute stop due to extra-strong winds.

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/article1748741.ece

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/sortro...cle1748613.ece

http://www.fosna-folket.no/samferdsel/article259553.ece

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/article1748888.ece

Some screendumps:

[pakarang]

This is how WE do it!

[Sterkoder]

This is how WE do it!

Yepp..., looks like you've done this hundreds of times. Y'all got it to the fingertips.
Now, when watching the video I just imagine what this kind of small vessel and a camera could do in any harbour....., hmmmmm

Great job!

[pakarang]

Now, when watching the video I just imagine what this kind of small vessel and a camera could do in any harbour....., hmmmmm

Great job!

Thank you so very much Sterkoder.... I'm trying to find out, what more I can do with the camera, step by step.

Expect much more in the future, and if you have any tip on what you'd like to see, let me know!

[pakarang]

A LONG time ago, on the ferry:

http://www.adressa.no/kultur/article1660098.ece

[pakarang]

This is just one sample, while the rest of the Aurora Borealis images from Korsfjord can be found in the Auror-thread:

http://www.captainsvoyage-forum.com/...urora-Borealis

[Seagull]

Here are some photos of crew I met aboard Korsfjord, taken on the 5th of November 2011 – there are more photos I took of this visit of CVF members starting here in the CVF Autumn Cruise thread.

[Seagull]