There seam to be more minor damages:
The already known collapsed gantry crane and two further ones derailed.
Moreover, the yet berthed vessel contacted.
Lag is a bitch.
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No shit.
With a few exceptions, kept my assist tug or tugs, when I needed them on a fairly short leash. No bow thruster in play. Would have liked one, but not as reliable then as we liked. Good assist tug operator and caution approaching the berth worth the extra cost to stay off the 6 o’clock news.
Coming out of the S/Y the ship very light.
I was taking the ship across the bay to the yard and the pilot got cancelled, too windy. Had to anchor. It was like trying to steer a ping pong ball.
Min draft, min fuel, min ballast, even some of the fresh water pumped out,
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Don’t envy you Kennebec_Captain. Been there done that. Effing hairy, wind and no ballast or fuel. Always was suspect leaving shipyard if all was supposedly “Normal”. Sounds like this ship from prior posters had a shipyard period prior to this headache. A headache most of us has gone through. But hopefully not in this entirety.
My point was a very light ship might catch a pilot by surprise. It surprised me at first. The Milano Bridge might have been very light and the pilot didn’t expect it. That might explain the difficulty getting slowed down.
For sure. Prop immersion was lacking
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Yeah, I had all kinds of sea room to figure it out. Not this pilot.
Excuse me but a heavily laden ship would carry more mometum than a light ship and therefore would be more difficult to stop. A light ship would also be more susceptible to the cross wind that pushed this ship into the pier.
Still, the increased speed at the near end of the docking procedure is a question, when they had slowed after the turn.
My experience is if a very light ship is expected to handle like a typical ship in ballast you might be in for a surprise.
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As is my experience with a light vessel. What were the winds at time of docking? If they were beam onto the dock, may explain that speed surge to get away from other berthed vessels if they cut it too close. Maybe not. Tugs were there to help. As Kennebec_Captain stated, he had options if all was operating correctly/or incorrectly.
A ship in a turn will slow down even if the RPM stays the same. Once out of the turn it will regain speed lost in the turn.
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It’s really all about that propeller immersion and how little the prop ‘bites’ when you expect it to. As per the video, it just froths the water
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If you keep the same rpms. Absolutely correct.
It has been a number of years since I’ve called at Busan but the tugs look familiar. I always found the pilots efficient and as a regular caller then I was cleared to come into the harbour in inclement weather. The tugs were sufficient for the displacement of the container vessels I was in command of but if they
Continued due to large thumb and touch screen. … are a bit underpowered when manoeuvring a behemoth like the Milano Bridge, even in light condition. An 80 tonne plus tractor tug on the centre lead aft would have enough power to allow the ship to use dead slow ahead and maintain steerage way while keeping the speed down.
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Suspect, Hammer hitting a nail
Wind on shore, not a lot, appears less than 10k, should have been well within normal parameters.