The ship Bow Singapore has just run aground off Rosebud. The pilot boat has just arrived but with the tide ebbing it will be there a while

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Guitz said..
The ship Bow Singapore has just run aground off Rosebud. The pilot boat has just arrived but with the tide ebbing it will be there a while

Should have put his noodle bowl down by the sounds of it

Ive been stuck off Blairgowrie had to throw an anchor out to pull my self free off the sand on the way around to western port Ill have a depth sounder and be a little more sorted when she goes back in

According to my plotting his position:- Ship is aground just west of the Hovell Pile, on a very shallow bar. If inbound, she has turned way too early. Heads will roll!

+1 saintpeter, looks like the pilot boat has left him to it...nothing he can do..

Spirit of Tasmania coming one way and another oil tanker coming the other way

This pic was a while ago. Shows the sand spit The tug Hastings is on it's way from Geelong. Next high is around 4.30 am

Well Bow Singapore is off the sand spit and anchored a few miles north east of Port Arlington. There is a short news article in the Age online web page but no other news

I read that Age article..."A massive oil tanker...". A 115 metre oil tanker is the opposite of massive. Cheap trashy reporting.

My guess is , pilot boat was there to pick up a pilot. It was always rule, that any foreign ship must have a pilot
going through The Heads. I would think that slow speed and current was a factor.

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AshleyM said..
I read that Age article..."A massive oil tanker...". A 115 metre oil tanker is the opposite of massive. Cheap trashy reporting.

yep that pretty much sums up The Age newspaper to a tee. Come to think about it, that could pretty much sum up the majority of, if not all, of the media in Australia

The pilot is the boss within PPB, so unless steering or engine failed head it should be his head that rolls. Can't blame the puny PPB currents that far from the heads.

Although the pilot service somehow managed to escape lightly following the rupture of the ethane pipeline around 7 or 8 years ago. Poor old ship's captain seemed to be the sacrificial goat.

Cheers, Graeme

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Charriot said..
My guess is , pilot boat was there to pick up a pilot. It was always rule, that any foreign ship must have a pilot
going through The Heads. I would think that slow speed and current was a factor.

The Pilot has to stay in command of the ship within the port area, and pilots never get picked up at or around the Hovell.
Re the Age article, I thought it was poorly written with a minimum of background research.

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wongaga said...
The pilot is the boss within PPB, so unless steering or engine failed head it should be his head that rolls.

Weeeell not strictly speaking. As the captain (or master) of a ship ultimately everything that happens on the ship is your responsibility, be that entering or leaving harbour or in open ocean, if you are awake or asleep or even if you are not on the ship. Your ship = your responsibility. (If you want a good example of this read about HMS Nottingham and Wolf Rock, though in that case her CO got off lightly).

When a pilot comes on they are there to provide advice and supplement the bridge team. Now often they will "take the navigation and the con" but the CO still remains ultimately responsible for his ship.

I think youre right knight. This would explain why my captain on myboadicea would feel the need to take the helm sometimes when we had a pilot onboard. Some of the pilots we encountered were more interested in the yacht and who owned it to do their job safely. Some of them seemed pretty incompetent actually.