Onward, Crew!
The ship is making decent speed; yet, a change is in the near future. I’ll update once the plan is en force.
The transit Eastward is most unique for me. The ship is covering ocean at the rate in excess of seventy-five feet per second or fifteen knots. The seas reminiscent of jagged-cut Obsidian stone as its near black surface shimmies at all angles as the hull cuts a swath.
This region, too, I’ve not traveled, but the horizon, clouds, and passing squalls all look the same no matter where. Ship traffic is increasing, however, and larger cargo ships seem to be popping up whose length and breadth, especially, forbid these larger ships from transiting the Panama Canal.
These Panamax Ships are designed at a maximum breadth or ‘beam’ as we mariners tend to call the width of a vessel, of around one-hundred five feet or so. But the aforementioned ships transiting near our location, have beams in excess of this and are considered Post-Panamax or Suez-Max. I believe there is even a “Cape Max” which ship’s beams can exceed fifty meters or one hundred-sixty foot and are only allowed to sail around the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa and Cape Horn, located at the Southern most passage of South America. In addition, I’ve managed to sight ships whose length’s regularly exceed over one-thousand feet or 305 meters and on occasion, as in the case of one Maersk Line Ship, the Elly Maersk, was spotted in the Suez Canal with a Length Over- All exceeded 389 meters.
Our Circulation Pump within the engine room which is a component required in the cooling of the main engine is nearing its service life time and we are considering making a stop, in order to replace the part.
I will inform you of what we’ve decided and hopefully, our transit ‘home’ will continue.
Hope you enjoy your day!
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