Just to contextualize this, here’s Random Ships 16 and 15. Below is one sight that thrilled me yesterday . . . Orange Star. Nice sternlines, eh? Just over three years ago, I took fotos of Orange Star, a different and older vessel by the same name. If you open only one link in this post, open this one for the 2008 version of Orange Star.
This foto taken from more than a mile away shows Barrington Island leaving Red Hook bound for sea with the assistance of Margaret Moran and an unidentified Moran boat.
These Brazilian juice tankers HAVE to be the most beautiful large motor vessels (IMHO) anywhere: immaculate exteriors exuding sublime colors and hues, bespeaking what I imagine are gleaming stainless steel interiors redolent of citrus.
Bulker Medi Antwerp passes Conti Benguela on its way to sea. The fact that “benguela” appears on a tanker speaks to the success of offshore drilling there.
A new word for the beauty of these tankers? Try pulchritudinous! No, really . . . that’s a good thing! Even the old Orange Star may have registered a old, worn out, tired feeling to itself or others, but she was always pulchritudinous to my eyes. Orange Stars to me . . . I view as resplendent as the day they came off the ways. A statistic for the volume of Brazilian juice: (2007) It produces 53% of all orange juice consumed in the world! For more statistics like that, click here. I do–I admit–recognize the problem of getting staples like orange juice from a continent away; maybe I should move to a place where I can grow my own oranges, lemons, mangoes . . .?
Here Medi Antwerp (recently in Chile) passes between the salt pile and Bow Sun (less than a month ago passed Cape of Good Hope!).
Back to these juice vessels . . . their charms disarm me. Now here I could have taken a closeup of this structure, starboard side of where the pumps and controls must be, but I didn’t think to do it. Anyone explain the device below the crane and abaft the horizontally oriented tank? Next time I’ll try to keep my analytical wits about me and not go all aflutter.
Overseas Kythnos, Korean-built and launched last year, has a great slogan painted along the top of the house.
All fotos this weekend by Will Van Dorp, who readily admits to having an orange juice drinking problem as well as eye problems that sometimes let me see what I want to.
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September 19, 2011 at 4:58 pm
PaulB
From my recent voyage there, I have to note that the fruit in Brazil is far more intensely-flavored than anything you’d find here. I believe it has to do with the use of heirloom varieties of the fruit- plants selected for quality, and not rapid growth or yield.
September 19, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Bill Kelleher
I think what you are seeing is a cooling tower for refrigeration.
On the juice tanker.
Bill Kelleher
September 20, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Les Sonnenmark
Refrigeration machinery would be seawater cooled. The structure under the crane houses the manifold for connecting loading/offloading hoses to the cargo pumping system. The bar structure just outboard is a fairlead for the hoses. The crane handles the hoses.
September 20, 2011 at 3:08 am
SeaBart
You do actually realise that the concentrated Orange Juice in bulk as transported by the Orange star is not drinkable and actually a highly acidy fluid?
I don’t have the IMDG-code here at home otherwise I could have looked it up. I’ll try to remember next time o/b.