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Post by beth on Dec 31, 2012 23:35:56 GMT -5
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Post by beth on Dec 31, 2012 23:42:46 GMT -5
I've been working on archiving the past threads here on the Daily this evening.
Starting with a few 2009 straggler threads taking us into 2010, this archive (when completed) will contain documentation for Jen's Tapestry for every single day since we opened our doors. Fascinating! If you want to know the weather in August 2010 .. it's there. All of us made it so and it's a really wonderful accomplishment.
I have 2011 and 2012 left to go and should be finished before the weekend. If anyone is interested in exploring life at JT in the years gone by, just ask me for the password to the Archives.
Now we're starting another year! Let's make it a good one.
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Post by whocanibe on Jan 1, 2013 2:59:13 GMT -5
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Post by mouse on Jan 1, 2013 3:57:45 GMT -5
2013...wow...i can remebr lying in bed as a little girl working out how old i would be at the turn of the century and now we are in the teens of the new century and its isnt quite so new any more [mind you back then] even to be 30 was my idea of ancient and crumbling a slightly lighter day that we have had recently..cold/fresh and it has been raining..in fact it poured down all day yesterday with intermittent hail storms little em[lette] and i saw in the new year with friends... not very many fire works this year it usually sounds like a war zone untill 1pm but it was even quieter than last year...guess the recession is biting lets all hope this year things begin to improve..though i cannot see that happening any time soon even a wish for a peaceful year is highly optomistic....but hope springs eternal
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Post by maggie on Jan 1, 2013 5:15:07 GMT -5
The sun is out on the 1st of January, hope it stays sunny all week so the ground can dry up and I can take the dog out for a walk without us both getting very muddy indeed. Have a good day everyone.
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Post by mouse on Jan 1, 2013 8:46:29 GMT -5
The sun is out on the 1st of January, hope it stays sunny all week so the ground can dry up and I can take the dog out for a walk without us both getting very muddy indeed. Have a good day everyone. i just took ours out...on the fields its like walking through treacle..squelch squelch squelch....yuk and no sun here just unremitting grey damp and getting colder have a pot of snowdrops by the front door...two of them are actually flowering....much too early for my liking....i must have a mooch around the garden and see what else is showing signs of life
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Post by markindurham on Jan 1, 2013 10:03:11 GMT -5
Well, so much for this morning's berthing - the terminal decided to take another ship in before us, so we should have gone in tonight... Latest news is that she won't finish before high water this evening (we can only go in on a rising tide, due to our draught), so it'll be tomorrow morning now. Hey ho!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 10:07:04 GMT -5
Well, so much for this morning's berthing - the terminal decided to take another ship in before us, so we should have gone in tonight... Latest news is that she won't finish before high water this evening (we can only go in on a rising tide, due to our draught), so it'll be tomorrow morning now. Hey ho! so what does everyone do until then?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 10:08:30 GMT -5
it's still dark outside so have no idea of what the weather is going to be on the 1st day of the new year......all I know is it got cold last night.....went down to 31
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Post by markindurham on Jan 1, 2013 10:21:24 GMT -5
Well, so much for this morning's berthing - the terminal decided to take another ship in before us, so we should have gone in tonight... Latest news is that she won't finish before high water this evening (we can only go in on a rising tide, due to our draught), so it'll be tomorrow morning now. Hey ho! so what does everyone do until then? Normal shipboard daily routines - although we've had early finish today, seeing as it's New years Day
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Post by beth on Jan 1, 2013 12:27:10 GMT -5
Enjoy your down time, Mark. Will you get to go ashore?
Cloudy and cold with snow on the ground, today.
New Years Day is open house so I'll be back and forth during the afternoon and serving ham with accompaniments, also a pot of seasoned white beans that smell as if they're almost done.
Hope those of you, who go back to work tomorrow, enjoy your last day to relax or celebrate - your choice.
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Post by markindurham on Jan 1, 2013 12:36:32 GMT -5
Enjoy your down time, Mark. Will you get to go ashore? We're actually about 8 miles offshore - out of phone range, which is a bit annoying, to say the least... I'm hoping, assuming that my wife gets down to the ship on Friday (she's working all week) that we can get ashore on Saturday. In the meantime, of course, I'll make sure that my staff get ashore if they want to. It will make a change to be in port for a few days; doesn't happen very often in this trade. We know it will be a slow discharge; how slow, well we'll only know that once we get started
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 13:47:55 GMT -5
Enjoy your down time, Mark. Will you get to go ashore? We're actually about 8 miles offshore - out of phone range, which is a bit annoying, to say the least... I'm hoping, assuming that my wife gets down to the ship on Friday (she's working all week) that we can get ashore on Saturday. In the meantime, of course, I'll make sure that my staff get ashore if they want to. It will make a change to be in port for a few days; doesn't happen very often in this trade. We know it will be a slow discharge; how slow, well we'll only know that once we get started how cool that your wife catches up with you in port even if it's just a day, it's a day together. How come it is taking longer to discharge at this particular port? I've never been more than two miles offshore and then it bothered me to be that far away so can't imagine 8 miles out or further. I still can't figure out how seagulls are over fishing ships miles and miles away from shore
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Post by markindurham on Jan 1, 2013 14:17:51 GMT -5
We're actually about 8 miles offshore - out of phone range, which is a bit annoying, to say the least... I'm hoping, assuming that my wife gets down to the ship on Friday (she's working all week) that we can get ashore on Saturday. In the meantime, of course, I'll make sure that my staff get ashore if they want to. It will make a change to be in port for a few days; doesn't happen very often in this trade. We know it will be a slow discharge; how slow, well we'll only know that once we get started how cool that your wife catches up with you in port even if it's just a day, it's a day together. How come it is taking longer to discharge at this particular port? I've never been more than two miles offshore and then it bothered me to be that far away so can't imagine 8 miles out or further. I still can't figure out how seagulls are over fishing ships miles and miles away from shore It IS quite cool, isn't it? My being away for 10 weeks at a time is still something we're getting used to - well, for my wife anyway. It's not easy for her. OK, why the slow discharge? Well, this ship can only carry liquid gas fully refrigerated; in other words with little or no vapour pressure. We have propane on board, at -42C. The receivers require the cargo to go into their system no colder than -20C, so we have to warm it up as it goes ashore. We do this by passing it through a heat exchanger; the heating medium is sea water. As this is only about +7C at the moment, there is not a huge amount of heat available, so the flow rate has to be low. Hope this makes sense. You would be surprised how seagulls 'appear' from seemingly nowhere, even many miles offshore on occasion...
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