Around England in a super tanker?

Kapitan · 02-02-06, 05:39 PM

Around england in the worlds biggest super tanker sound mad ?

You know me i am mad

and yes im going to try it see how this virtual sailor realy works, and also get to grips with ship handeling and control, as one day i do desire to take command of a ship (hope fully no of this scale).

My planned route will take me from liverpool down to cornwall then through the english channel and up the north sea to scotland, now the ship is too big to go through most of the shallow channels so i got to go around.

After i round scotland il come back to liverpool where the journey will end.

I start now at thursday 2nd February at 2230GMT and i hope to finnish on the 8th February so a week to do that entire trip think i can do it ?

Explination of madness! i have alot of free time over the next few weeks ao i got nothing else to do apart from well toil and bordem so i just though do something out of the ordinary.

The ship im controlling:

Builder Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Oppama Shipyard
Propulsion Sumito Stal-Laval AP Turbine, 50.000 PS by 85 RPM
Length 458.45 meters
Beam 68.86 meters
Draft 24.61 meters
DWT: 564,763
Cubic: 658,362
Speed 13.00 knots

View Poll Results: Can i do it?
Yes he can do it he is looney tunes	12	36.36%
No he will go for an hour and get fed up	3	9.09%
They guy is nuts but i dont know	18	54.55%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

02-02-06, 05:39 PM	#1
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	Around England in a super tanker? Around england in the worlds biggest super tanker sound mad ? You know me i am mad and yes im going to try it see how this virtual sailor realy works, and also get to grips with ship handeling and control, as one day i do desire to take command of a ship (hope fully no of this scale). My planned route will take me from liverpool down to cornwall then through the english channel and up the north sea to scotland, now the ship is too big to go through most of the shallow channels so i got to go around. After i round scotland il come back to liverpool where the journey will end. I start now at thursday 2nd February at 2230GMT and i hope to finnish on the 8th February so a week to do that entire trip think i can do it ? Explination of madness! i have alot of free time over the next few weeks ao i got nothing else to do apart from well toil and bordem so i just though do something out of the ordinary. The ship im controlling: Builder Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Oppama Shipyard Propulsion Sumito Stal-Laval AP Turbine, 50.000 PS by 85 RPM Length 458.45 meters Beam 68.86 meters Draft 24.61 meters DWT: 564,763 Cubic: 658,362 Speed 13.00 knots __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/