Names 10 is OK, but Names 9 has more staying power, taps into classical thoughts.
If I came up behind a vessel with this name, my non-existent Greek would not let me know that
the name is Zim (that part is easy) New York! Remember, double click to enlarge an image.
Here’s an attractive bulk carrier with a great name that
again . . . from the stern I’d not recognize. Time to start studying Greek. And I thought– besides Greeks–only budding North American theologians would benefit from.
The name here is straight forward, but some mind-changing or dissembling seems afoot with the port of registry.
Check out the comment Rick Old Salt did recently relative to PCTC design on Kennebec Captain’s post here.
I know this fleet borrows names from operas, but I’m not sure I’d be happy to sail the seven seas in vessel whose name stems from a libertine who seduces only to move on and on and on . . . .
and on. Looks like the rolicking rakish RORO above took a blow to the portside cheek . . . or is that a poorly-pencilled-in moustachio?
Then there’s avid fisherfolk given to cliches. . . I’m mean . . . here’s a place to paint πόρνη (Greek or some other relatively arcane script) at least to keep folks wondering.
The bathroom signage here is at least novel . . . at least I’d never seen it before.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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November 12, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Brian
But why would an Israeli company (ZIM) name their boats in Greek?
November 12, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Les Sonnenmark
Since the ship is registered in Greece (the home port is Piraeus), the courtesy is to show the name in Greek. Maybe the question is why the ship is registered in Greece–no doubt for some good business reason (cheaper crew, lower taxes, etc.) or political reason (flies the Greek, not Israeli, flag). Maybe the next question is why the bulker OXYGEN’s name is shown in Greek, but the Greek word for oxygen is οξυγόνο, pronounced “oxygono”.
November 12, 2009 at 11:23 pm
bowsprite
squirrelly mustachioes, 2-ton iron yellow eyelashes, jowls, cheeks and headdresses! Tugster is communing with his little metal friends again.
November 13, 2009 at 8:19 am
Kennebec Captain
Greek names, Kafka, watersheds, male, female, inboard/outboard, above/below the surface, jeez, I need a a splitting mall and a wood pile . Oh wait – I got both, never mind.
November 16, 2009 at 7:31 am
soundbounder
That is certainly a new twist on the bathroom signage.
Usually I just see the tired old BUOYS and GULLS
November 22, 2009 at 1:28 am
Anonymous
We’ve seen many variations on the bathroom signs; of course also buoys and gulls, but also things like “pointers” and “setters”. There must be a whole post or maybe even some blogger with nothing better to do than write the Bathroom Door Signs Blog.