Hello

Engine Serang · #1 8th May 2017, 10:00

Just tentatively putting my foot on the gangway.
All my gear is still on board SN and I must say it has given me many hours of innocent pleasure. In addition let me post dozens of cynical and silly comments, Would that this ship will be as tolerant.

In truth I was getting a bit p1ssed-orf with SN and its continuous posts by Sparkies cut down in their prime by the devil of GMDSS and the bloody Bank Line brigade still missing the copra beetles in their breakfast and the hunger and starvation of Lord Inver*****, what a Toff, his son was a wasteral.

Where's the Smokeroom?

Varley · #2 8th May 2017, 10:21

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Originally Posted by Engine Serang

Just tentatively putting my foot on the gangway.
All my gear is still on board SN and I must say it has given me many hours of innocent pleasure. In addition let me post dozens of cynical and silly comments, Would that this ship will be as tolerant.

In truth I was getting a bit p1ssed-orf with SN and its continuous posts by Sparkies cut down in their prime by the devil of GMDSS and the bloody Bank Line brigade still missing the copra beetles in their breakfast and the hunger and starvation of Lord Inver*****, what a Toff, his son was a wasteral.

Where's the Smokeroom?

Hello E-S good to have you onboard. Smokeroom's this way a bunch of us Sparkies are just chatting about DSC. Don't worry about putting on the boiler suite the Kongsberg Superchief will text you if it wants you.

billyboy · #3 8th May 2017, 12:41

A warm welcome aboard from the Philippines. Please enjoy all this great new site has to offer.

Hawkey01 · #4 8th May 2017, 13:45

ES,

Welcome to SH.

Hawkey01 - An ex RO.

Gulpers · #5 8th May 2017, 20:21

Engine Serang,

Welcome aboard our new build - glad you found where we are berthed!

Dartskipper · #6 8th May 2017, 20:40

Welcome aboard Engine Serang. Great to see you signed on. You will find this ship a bit more stable than the old one.

Roy.

Tom Alexander · #7 9th May 2017, 06:36

Well, well,well, or 'ullo, 'ullo, 'ullo as the English policeman said to the lady with three heads --
Tmac has missed you, Squeak has missed you, I have missed you -- you were gone when we needed you most -- to clean up after we blew the tubes in the middle of the night!! Bars open -- have one on me

R58484957 · #8 9th May 2017, 08:42

Greetings ES and welcome on board SH. Bon voyage.

Engine Serang · #9 15th May 2017, 10:20

Happily aboard and settling in. Lo and behold I find myself demoted from "Senior Member" in the Other Place to mere "Member" on this New Improved ship.
Ah well back on watches again, bit of a bummer getting a call at midnight. Takes me back to 1974, bell bottoms and platform shoes.

Varley · #10 15th May 2017, 11:04

And until you get the sea time in for a command endorsement for twin hulled plumbing that's where you'll stay.

Gulpers · #11 15th May 2017, 20:55

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Originally Posted by Engine Serang

Happily aboard and settling in. Lo and behold I find myself demoted from "Senior Member" in the Other Place to mere "Member" on this New Improved ship.
Ah well back on watches again, bit of a bummer getting a call at midnight. Takes me back to 1974, bell bottoms and platform shoes.

I know your post was tongue-in-cheek Engine Sarang; however, it reminded me of the "Senior Member" title on SN. Pleased to report that Ollie has now tweaked SH, so anyone who has made more than 100 posts will be "promoted" to Senior Member!

Engine Serang · #12 16th May 2017, 08:33

I've got a bus pass, when can I become an "Old Member". I'm very ambitious.

100 posts is no problem:-
25 about posting pictures on SN
25 about my curry recipes
and 50 having a poke at Bank Line.
Add a few about the demise of UASC and I'm over the line and once again on the broad sunlit uplands of intelligent dialogue with the scholars of the MN.

Varley · #13 16th May 2017, 10:56

I don't know why I can't adopt the acronym of our Technical Services crack emergency response group or Fast Action Response Team. By all means prefix it with Old to indicate retirement.

I think it would suit you, too, ES.

Gulpers · #14 16th May 2017, 11:46

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Originally Posted by Varley

I don't know why I can't adopt the acronym of our Technical Services crack emergency response group or Fast Action Response Team. By all means prefix it with Old to indicate retirement.

I think it would suit you, too, ES.

David,

You think you've got problems - Steve, Andy and Ollie prefer to be known as Admin, presumably because SH(IT) could give the wrong impression!

Tmac1720 · #15 16th May 2017, 14:40

Ah Engine Serang there you are, I thought you had got sucked up the bilge strums on the old SN, good to have you back and you are just in time to blow the boiler tubes..... big breaths now, just like Dolly Parton.

Engine Serang · #16 16th May 2017, 15:45

The mention of Dolly minds me to inquire if the main engine has twin turbos?

Tmac1720 · #17 16th May 2017, 16:50

supercharged quadruple turbos with horizontal steam traps and non return sluice valves.

Engine Serang · #18 10th June 2017, 09:52

Come on shipmates, let's try to keep this thread alive. It would appear that there's more life in SN than many believed.

Varley · #19 10th June 2017, 10:13

Come on ES. For us to post twice on this thread it would have to be Hello, Hello.

Engine Serang · #20 10th June 2017, 10:38

Hello, hello, hello, said Dixon of Dock Green.

Lucy Knight · #21 13th June 2017, 01:04

Welcome aboard E.S.

I'm intrigued to find Dublin has relocated to Abu Dhabi. Better wx I suppose. A couple of weeks ago Liverpool had relocatetd to Abu Dhabi too, but Freddythefrog movedt it back again.

Tom Alexander · #22 13th June 2017, 08:20

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Originally Posted by Engine Serang

Hello, hello, hello, said Dixon of Dock Green.

"ello","ello","ello" ---- as the English policeman said to the lady with three heads-- "What's going' on 'ere then?"

Duncan112 · #23 13th June 2017, 09:28

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Originally Posted by Varley

Don't worry about putting on the boiler suite the Kongsberg Superchief will text you if it wants you.

Ahh Kongsberg - I was on a ferry with one of their offerings - came down the ECR to take over and the Day Chief says "We have a problem" - one of the systems had retreated to the confines of its HDD and all it would offer, despite many reboots was a game of Windows solitaire.

Give me Decca Isis (Hopefully renamed now) anyday or Norcontrol as a second best.

Varley · #24 13th June 2017, 10:27

Decca Crisis. 'Did' that when back to school in 1975 (beside the GEC logger, reminiscent of a church organ console which was no longer on the curriculum).

Autronica KM3/4 - that is the 'thing' still produced by Konsberg for clients in locations difficult to serve with a technician (evidently the middle of the Pacific doesn't count).

It remains possible to instrument sanely if you want bells and whistles too simply make them auxiliary to the basic function (if I remember correctly the Crisis was almost such with the alarm comparators/detectors discrete to each channel and only the digitisation and logging done by scan).

Not even chess?

Duncan112 · #25 13th June 2017, 12:16

The first iteration of Isis was very simple - orange alarm annnunciators and a selector switch to pick the channel - bit like the RichWest system, bomb proof (almost). Norcontrol was good - until one of the HDDs went down - it was then that we found that it was based on 8086 architecture and we couldn't get new HDDs - the back streets of Wanchai provided the second hand answer!!