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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:39 am Post subject:

More history......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Light

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:44 am Post subject:

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_New_York_Bay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids_to_Navigation_Boat

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2458 Location: South Florida

What is remarkable to me, is that it takes seven years for someone to become a fully qualified Sandy Hook Pilot...as long as it takes a person to become a lawyer!

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:17 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:27 pm Post subject:

Intense study required to be a professional in these areas......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_radar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_radar_plotting_aid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-search_radar

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:09 pm Post subject:

Marine radar overview......

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/marine-radar

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:15 pm Post subject:

Here's an in-depth, technical (and QUITE complex!) page, with a number of illustrations and charts, dedicated to harbor beacons, buoys, and markers.......

https://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse9.html

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:26 pm Post subject:

While on the subject of marine radar, it is interesting to remember that the first ferryboats equipped with radar in New York Harbor were the three boats of the Staten Island Ferry's "MERRELL" class, which entered service in 1950/1951 (these ferries also had the distinction of being the last steam ferries to operate in NY Harbor, being retired in the early 1980's)

The boats of the 69th Street-St. George line also were equipped with radar.

When the CRRNJ updated its fleet of turn-of-the-century ferryboats in the mid-1950's, they also installed radar on the boats.

This gave the CRRNJ the distinction of being the only railroad that operated trans-Hudson ferries to equip its fleet with radar.......

"NYO"

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:26 pm Post subject:

Here's an interesting page(s)........

https://howstuffworks.com/cruise-ship.htm

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 12:52 am Post subject:

......during my recent phone/internet outage, I heard on 1010 WINS that there will be no Canadian cruises sailing until at least 2022.......would have been nice to hear at least a little good news, regarding that battered cruise industry..... Sad

"NYO"

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2458 Location: South Florida

And several other countries are banning large cruise ships, as well. It does look bleak for the industry, for the rest of the year.
One of the consquences of the Canadian ban, is that without the ability to have at least one port of call there, on Alaskan or New England/Canada US cruises, they are banned by foreign registered cruise ships, which constitute all of the large cruise ships (except the US registered NCL Pride of America, which does Hawaiian only cruises) due to the cabotage laws under the Passenger Vessel Services Act.

So even if the US CDC does allow cruising to resume later this year, it will only be smaller than 100 passenger ships able to do those itinerary's...

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2458 Location: South Florida

One bright spot in cruise industry news, is this amazing story..
Could be a harbinger of "fair winds and following seas", for the industry, due to pent-up demand...

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/24340-cruise-demand-surges-as-oceania-world-cruise-sells-out-in-a-day.html

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:39 pm Post subject:

traildriver:

Appreciate the link; thanks for posting here.......that was AT LEAST, a BIT of positive news on the cruise front (on a related note, I guess the cruise you were booked on for this year is a no-go) Sad

My head literally spins when I think of how the cruise industry is reeling aand rocking these days.........one can only wonder IF the industry will EVER recover to ANYWHERE near normal, in the future.....

"NYO"

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2458 Location: South Florida

It looks like my July cruise will not go, but I am still waiting for the cruise line to make it 'official'...

The advanced deposits required to hold a spot on that 2023 Around The World cruise, will go a long way to paying current bills for NCLH.

As for the industry, when times return to normal, the pent up demand will quickly fill cruises. The problem for many lines, is the ability to survive without any revenue, long enough for that to happen. Getting advance deposits is one way. Selling off older, less efficient, and high maintenance ships, is another.
But there will definitely be a "shaking out" period, where some lines will succumb, and only the fittest will survive. Being part of a diversified large corporation with deep pockets will also help...think Disney Cruise Lines, for example...

Or MSC Cruises, which is owned by the same family that also owns one of the largest containership fleets...

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:38 pm Post subject:

traildriver:

Indeed, it WILL be the "survival of the fittest", when things start to get back to some semblence of "normal".

I'm mostly thinking of the tremendous amount of work that will require armies of men to clean, disinfect, and repair the fleets of ships now idle, stranded at various ports around the globe, for too long now.

Am just now recalling the tramp steamers of another era..........

"NYO"