Re: Is there a ship sailing past your house?

by Fangirl Three Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:54 pm

Oh, I see it's being used for storing Ukrainian refugees

A worthy cause I'm sure. But not so glamorous.

by cosmictanya Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:45 pm

I saw three of them.

by Fangirl Three Sun Oct 23, 2022 6:55 am

And what was in those ships all three?

by cosmictanya Sun Oct 23, 2022 3:28 pm

There was an old man with a beard at the wheel, a young man dying on a cross rigged up on the deck, and a woman in tears looking out over the water. And the very same thing on the next ship, and the next.

by Fangirl Three Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:29 pm

Worst Christmas morning ever.

by Nightjar Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:32 pm

Is that the Flying Dutchman?

by Nightjar Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:47 pm

Or the version with Ava Gardner in it?

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:13 pm

Considering everything currently going on in the Red Sea near Yemen there's an awful lot of boats sailing through to the Suez Canal.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:36.0/centery:20.3/zoom:4

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:14 pm

On that map there's a minus button to zoom out but I can't find a plus button to zoom back in. Sly

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:15 pm

It seems the plus and minus keys on my laptop's keyboard can make it zoom in and out. I did not know they could do that.

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:16 pm

They do it for Google Maps too. I've just learnt something after a couple of decades of using these things.

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:17 pm

They probably did the same for the maps on my 1997 Encarta CD ROM encyclopaedia and I never knew it. Colbert

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:20 pm

Loads of oil tankers in the Red Sea. scared

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:41 pm

Butterfield wrote:Considering everything currently going on in the Red Sea near Yemen there's an awful lot of boats sailing through to the Suez Canal.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:36.0/centery:20.3/zoom:4

I notice all the UK ones are called GB, even the little tugs in Northern Island ports. hmm

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:6875006/zoom:16

by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:13 pm

This is currently sailing past St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall. happy

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:6309287/zoom:12

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by Butterfield Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:15 pm

This website doesn't cover enough of the Midlands. Colbert

Though there is an unidentified "pleasure craft" just to the south of Worcester.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:21 pm

Butterfield wrote:This is currently sailing past St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:6309287/zoom:12

I wonder if there's one just like it going past Mont St Michel, as well? scared

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:21 pm

Wait till they force ~~Long Ships~~ Narrowboats to have tracking.

by Fangirl Three Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:41 am

Butterfield wrote:They probably did the same for the maps on my 1997 Encarta CD ROM encyclopaedia and I never knew it.

The numpad + and - for zooming used to work reliably across a range of applications. But I find they so often don't work nowadays, that I don't bother to try.

by Butterfield Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:56 pm

I literally never used the number pad on my old PC's keyboard that I used from 1998 to 2005!

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