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Shipspotters all over the world / Trip reports / Re: You Know Your A Shipspotter If...
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on: August 14, 2018, 08:16:34 am
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I’d rather be known as a ship ENTHUSIAST than ship SPOTTER but my wife insists in calling me the latter (among other things) Anyway: A: I don’t have to leave home to see ships. The Thames runs past the bottom of my back garden (1.2 km away). B. I don’t get too much time to read a book. I’m too busy doing household chores (under orders from she who must be obeyed). C. My camera is usually at the ready so that I can jump in the car for a 7-minute drive (if I stick to legal speeds) to a photo vantage point D. If a stranger asks me about a ship, they'll regret it because I am such a know-all that I will bore backside off with detail. (They did ask for it!) E. Although I take lots of ship photos, I am not very interested in photography and when looking at other people’s photos (as on this site), it’s ship details I’m interested in, not the light or the composition (or seeing four shots in a row of the same ship). I also hate drone photos. That’s probably because I haven’t got one but also because they are illegal over the Thames shipping channels. (Take note if you intend coming here with one. Perhaps the RAF will be scrambled to shoot it down. I’d like to see that!) F. On a cruise, I take as many photos of ships as I do of the places we visit. My wife moans about that. G: “Prettier” and “cooler” are not words I’d associate with ships. I’m interested in them all and I always have it in mind that they are just machines. So I don't get all soppy and sentimental when one goes to the scrapyard.
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Shipspotters all over the world / Consultations and review of site standards / Re: Catagory standards
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on: August 13, 2018, 01:18:22 pm
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I can’t really see much of a problem with the categories on this site. The required information as to what category a ship should be in is easily available on the net from http://www.equasis.org. On the matter of differentiating bulk carriers from general cargo ships - especially those of the open-hatch type: The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) defines a bulk carrier as a single-deck ship with a double bottom, hopper tanks, single-skin, transverse-framed side shell, topside tanks and deck hatchways. Therefore, IACS classifies multi-purpose open-hatchers, which have double-skinned sides, no topside tanks and hatches which open the full width of the holds, as general cargo ships and this differentiation is followed in the site standards. Multi-purpose general cargo/container ships do not have fixed cell guides; like container ships do.
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