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Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:21 pm
by Nick
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It appears the MV Serenissima has run aground in Oban Bay after a fairly apalling bit of navigation.
The motor ship Serenissima, entered service in 2003 after a multi-million dollar renovation by Swedish craftsmen, in 2012 she underwent another refurbishment. With her strengthened hull for ice service, her small size and relatively shallow draft she can dock in the heart of Europe’s historic centers and is able to navigate into smaller, remote ports inaccessible to the big cruise vessels.
Noble Caledonia Serenissima web page
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:24 pm
by claymore
Oops.
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:07 am
by cpedw
We've all been there, or thereabouts, haven't we?
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:11 am
by Nick
What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
You must have low expectations of professional seamen.
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:25 am
by Telo
Caught short just before the sewer outfall?
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:53 am
by cpedw
Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
You must have low expectations of professional seamen.
Found a rocky surprise. But no, mine was unmarked (except on the chart).
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:35 am
by DaveS
Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
ISTR on CC2009 being warned on the VHF by a fellow participant that I was heading between two cardinals guarding a rocky bit not a million miles from that photo.
My only defence is that I had become slightly confused following a last minute change of destination from Oban Marina to Cardingmill Bay...
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:58 am
by Nick
cpedw wrote:Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
You must have low expectations of professional seamen.
Found a rocky surprise. But no, mine was unmarked (except on the chart).
Ah yes! Well, we've all found rocky surprises I think
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:59 am
by Nick
DaveS wrote:Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
ISTR on CC2009 being warned on the VHF by a fellow participant that I was heading between two cardinals guarding a rocky bit not a million miles from that photo.
My only defence is that I had become slightly confused following a last minute change of destination from Oban Marina to Cardingmill Bay...
You should have said you were washing yer windaes . . .
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:19 pm
by Fingal
.... is able to navigate into smaller, remote ports inaccessible to the big cruise vessels.
Priceless!
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:48 pm
by Fingal
.... and despite the name she's not Italian. I think even the relaxed regulatory regime of St Vincent and the Grenadines may take quite a dim view. Someone will be getting their jotters.
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 5:54 pm
by Silkie
The story I'm hearing is that she got into an awkward position having been baulked by a ferry and was then caught out by the wind and lack of steerage way.
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:26 pm
by Mark
They call that aground? I've been WAY more aground than that.
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:19 pm
by fairy nuff
Silkie wrote:The story I'm hearing is that she got into an awkward position having been baulked by a ferry and was then caught out by the wind and lack of steerage way.
Certainly she was only making just over 5 knots as she came past Maiden Island
Re: Cruise liner aground in Oban Bay
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:29 pm
by claymore
Wonder if the 'Isle of Mull' has a wee cruise liner painted on her wheelhouse