Two big ships alongside today

[yellowperil]

They seem to be getting bigger and bigger!




More pics to follow in abit.
Thanks for lookin'

[Tervuren]

Thank you for your work.

[Sooner or later]

Brrrrrrrrr

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Mating season coming a little late this year.

[Nickshu]

Awesome!

[GH85Carrera]

It is just like cars, even Porsches, they just get bigger every few years.

[stevej37]

Is the pier built to load/unload from both sides? Or does the second ship have to wait his turn?
The Lefkes ship looks huge. Empty?

[yellowperil]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Is the pier built to load/unload from both sides? Or does the second ship have to wait his turn?
The Lefkes ship looks huge. Empty?

Both sides at once, because we just did a re dredging on what we call the east side where
the "laker" just off loaded a large amount of gravel.

So we can now work both sides at once. The "Lefkes" is large at 590 ft., but the laker"Atlantic Huron" is well over seven hundred ft. The Lefkes looks larger because it only has 6,000 mt on board. Look at the next picture and you can just see the bow
of the red ship above the pier building.

[berettafan]

Looks tippy...

[stevej37]

The Pilots of ships like these must have nerves of steel.
I'm sure they don't stop or turn 'on a dime'

[Baz]

Mammoths! Thanks for sharing YP!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by stevej37

The Pilots of ships like these must have nerves of steel.
I'm sure they don't stop or turn 'on a dime'

One of the anxious moments I had in my Naval career was as the OOD on what the Navy calls "Sea and Anchor Detail".

I was bringing the USS La Salle (AGF-3) into port at Mina Sulman in Bahrain. There was a Harbor Pilot on Deck, as well as all the other folks.

Holy smokes. Thank god the XO (great guy) took pity on me and helped.

Never has something so slow seemed so fast. I kid you not.

Love these threads.

[Jeff Higgins]

Could you remind us again where you are?

[stevej37]

^^^ pei..canada

[billybek]

I think Summerside PEI.

Not looking too summer like today!

[Googam]

We have a big ship here too. Unfortunately, it's about 500' off the edge of our Island,

[RWebb]

at least they got all the bunker fuel pumped out

I hear it is sinking into the sand...

[beatnavy]

I do find this stuff fascinating. Particularly in places that are "sort of on the edge" and experience pretty extreme weather, like your neck of world.

Just another post to say thanks for sharing.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Googam

We have a big ship here too. Unfortunately, it's about 500' off the edge of our Island,

[yellowperil]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Could you remind us again where you are?