ex HARALD JARL ::: ANDREA :::

[ombugge]

Originally Posted by Sigve

Andrea looked small compared to Costa Atlantica.

Regards, photo and copyright: Sigve.

Maybe small, but she looks like a SHIP, not like a block of tiny small flats floating on the water.

Edit: Correction, it looks like the inside of an American Prison, as seen in numerous movies.

[pakarang]

Absolutely stunning and brilliant images of the Andrea: this was a great photo tour of the ship. She is so elegant inside, and it makes it even more so sad that she is no longer in operation.

She looks absolutely fantastic, as your images show...

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

[Eilun]

Waiting for the ship in Tromsø at midnight, August 2001.

Not a good sharpness, but I like this photos. In my mind I hear this special noise from the machine when Harald Jarl passed the bridge -

[pakarang]

Ahhh.... maybe they are not super sharp, but I can feel the atmosphere they were taken in. During my younger teenage years, these images bring back a lot of memories from those years, standing at the dock in Rørvik watching the ships arrive and sail. Almost every single night of the week, I cycled the 4-5 kilometers to Rørvik in the evening to absorb exactly this kind of nautical enrichment.

[wherrygirl]

Originally Posted by Eilun

I love rolling ships, but after some days in rough sea I am very tired. It is straining gliding through the bed all nights.

Originally Posted by ombugge

Maybe small, but she looks like a SHIP, not like a block of tiny small flats floating on the water.

I've noticed this thread so many times, but only this morning had a look. And how glad I am that I did. The Harold Jarl is a sister to the Kong Olav, isn't she? I do so agree with Ombugge on his comment above. Just one glance at Sigve's 5th photo in post 161 would surely convince anyone.
I, too, love rolling ships and am just very lucky in being a good sailor. On the Harwich - Hook of Holland night ferry once I stayed up late standing on deck watching the horizon swing left to right, pause, right to left. And on the old Scillonian, the little boat that went across from Penzance in Cornwall to St. Mary's on the Scilly Isles, everyone else was down below being very ill, while I had the deck to myself in the sunshine, sliding from one end to the other of the bench. But oh! did my tummy muscles ache for the rest of the day. The old boat was flat bottomed because the seas there are so shallow. Presumably the current vessel is built the same, of necessity, but is better stabilised. Or you can take the chopper!

[Eilun]

The Scillonian - I heard the same story from my girl friend. Everyone was seasick on board, only she loved it. So it is sure you travelled not together on the Scillonian.
My girl friend lived one year in Penzance, now she is an English teacher here in Germany. In October 2005 she sailed to Penzance on Elbe 1, an old lightship, built 1948. Some people thought it is an crazy idea sailing in autumn such a long distance with this old ship.
Sad, there is no hope to convince her writing reports about it. She don't like Computers...

[wherrygirl]

Originally Posted by Eilun

My girl friend lived one year in Penzance, now she is an English teacher here in Germany. In October 2005 she sailed to Penzance on Elbe 1, an old lightship, built 1948. Some people thought it is an crazy idea sailing in autumn such a long distance with this old ship.
Sad, there is no hope to convince her writing reports about it. She don't like Computers...

Now that is too good an experience to miss hearing about, Eilun. Please try to persuade her to write an account on a typewriter and then perhaps you could scan it in and bring it to CV? I don't ask for much, do I? But I'm sure it would be interesting to read.

[Eilun]

A report about this journey is existing, but only in German, sorry. But maybe you like the photos - I added a link in Veteran Ships.

Back to Harald Jarl/Andrea:
A turn without bow thruster in Kristiansund, the ship groaned.

[Sigve]

A turn without bow thruster in Kristiansund, the ship groaned.

Why would she dock like this? Normally she would dock with her bow to the left (of this picture), wihtout having to turn like this...?? This must be an irregular docking?
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Regards Sigve.

[pakarang]

I think this might be a departure, rather than docking.

When they heave in the stern-line, the bow will be pulled away from the pier, as a bow thruster would have pushed her.

[Sterkoder]

Yes, this is most certainly a departure.
But why is that "smart" guy from the harbour authorities (who should know what he was doing) standing right there....? What if the rope snapped...? I could clearly see before me that he wouldn't be home for dinner that day...

(I don't care if the tention are increasing or decreasing on that rope, as I belive that you should have great respect for any rope used to maneuver a huge vessel).

[pakarang]

Agree... if you want to be on the safe side of things, that would not be one of the smartest places to stand.

[Eilun]

Yes, it was the departure in Kristiansund and I can calm you down - the guy near the line survived and I think he was at home for dinner.

[pakarang]

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