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tower
11-25-2006, 6:47pm
Hi everyone, only one laptop on the net in the Ships office, sorry if I can not post much here this trip. Our Captain answered a call for help from a lone Yachtsman yesterday. His sailboat the "Moonflower" was becalmed with engine trouble and drifting towards the reefs off the Northern coast of Indonesia and Port Morsby:

Photo's and Story on http://www.shaniatwaincentre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=28100#28100

Cheers, Tom on the British Tenacity 4 deg 41.1 min South 111 deg 11.5 deg East. Destination Barrow Island North West Australia to pick up a cargo of 42,000 tons of Crude Oil bound for Freemantle near Perth.

GorToma
11-26-2006, 8:27am
thanks for the update Tom

Troll
11-26-2006, 9:59am
Thanks for the update.

tower
11-26-2006, 7:05pm
Thanks everyone. I hope you enjoy the link and the photo's on it. You have to log in to view all the photo's.

The sailor in the Yacht left us his card, so if you would like to know more about his voyage you can email him:

Andreas Hollerer fotodeandre@hotmail.com

and here first hand from him how it feels to have a 47,000 ton Tanker come fix your engine at Sea one day

canoilers
11-29-2006, 6:46pm
Thank you very much Tom.