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Looking down the starboard side of the deck. That's a container overheard; containers everywhere! Looking between two rows of containers, up at the cranes Between a different pair of container piles. Very matrixy. The pipework is a "lashing" that holds the containers in giant bricks. the walkway between the containers The sign on the deck marking where the pilot gets on I'm the king of the world! Looking out the bow. Rope hole Giant chain for the anchor. Giant chain. That's my hand. Looking back from the bow at one of the cranes. Ropes and stuff on the bow. Clear view of the lashing that holds the containers into "bricks". Containers! lashing diagram Tucked away, here's a little raftling! About 30" long and 16" in diameter.. ..here's how you deploy it. Lashing The bit of open desk between the cabins at the stern and the containers. I think normally there might be containers here. You can see all the patchwork paint, where they paint over rust spots. Rust! Hard to keep things painted in a persistently foggy, salt-water environment Looking back up at all the cabins. That's the bridge sticking out on the left. My cabin is on the right. Bridge Lashing pipes Officers. The guy on the left was the Finnish mate, security officer and medical officer, the other three were engineers. Shot glass. Formerly Zambucha-filled. LAND HO! Land land land land land land land, land land land, land. Land land. Land. Canada land! This represents my state at the time. So does this. And this. Would you beleve, that's the only photo I have of the captain? LAND LAND LAND. "Supper cargo"!? Uh-oh! (Turns out it was a typo, and it should have read super cargo, i.e. someone attached to the cargo, supervising it. This was one of the three tables in the officer's mess. Not bad. Here's the menu. Meaty. Radar screen on the bridge. The man in the middle is the President of the Canadian Marine Pilots' Association. Very nice guy. On the right, in the red, is a Philipino crew member. The pilot would tell him where to point the boat, and he would do so. Land. Barometric pressure gauge. You can see where it was lowest. that's where I lost my lunch. A gyroscope, I was told. I dunno what that means.
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