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August 17, 2021 at 3:06 pm
Paulb
I’m guessing the coating damage on that crude ship is a combination of shell plating panting and abrasion from the bow spring cables.
Where the bow joins the parallel midbody on a ship is a high stress point, both from dynamic sea stress and stress caused by cargo weight. Stress from changes in hull shape affecting the upwards and downwards forces also tend to make it a hotspot on hull stress analysis diagrams. So the shell plating will pant quite a bit there, creating uneven surfaces that the spring cables will rub against as the ship rises and falls with the tide and with cargo ops at a berth, cutting through the paint.
Just a guess, anyhow.