Over half a year ago, I did a series of posts on Atlantic Star, the first of the new ACL c-ships arriving in the sixth boro for the first time. The other day was my first time to spot the next of the set of five.
And given the location of Wavertree, a 130-year-old veteran of Atlantic (and all its adjoining waters) sailing,
juxtaposing the two seemed an opportunity not to pass up. imagine this as cover art for a book called Atlantic Sail, Then and Now. And no, I haven’t written it.
Here’s a shot. Now if only I’d had a drone…. I suppose in a few weeks if Peking is docked here, a shot with that barque and this Zim vessel (IMO 9289544) would be the one to get.
See in the middle distance a Nukahevan craft passing Atlantic Sail?
No matter. Let’s study the novel shapes and angles on the CONRO, assisted out here by Eric McAllister.
That’s the stack offset to port.
Steel curves like this in superstructure are unusual.
Sail on,
Atlantic Sail. Here’s the report for the week Atlantic Compass went to scrap.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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August 26, 2016 at 11:56 am
Frank Pusatere
Nice pictures. Looking forward to your posts
August 26, 2016 at 3:49 pm
Anonymous
Those curves & the doublers (thicker plate section overlays or inserts) in way of them + the flanges on the curved section are all ways to reduce the “notch” sensitivity of the location adjacent to the intersection of the accommodation block with the hull /deck edge. Hogging and bending stresses in those locations are concentrated (they become hard points) and can break the ship in half if not dealt with by design & construction.
August 27, 2016 at 12:50 am
sfdi1947
Will;
Believe all those structural innovations are to prevent stack instability which is the cause of many lost containers. A blind man could find his way to Roosevelt Roads PR by following the trail of sunken containers from the earlier Navarrese de Puerto Rico (Now part of Maersk) incidents.
Joe