With Kalifornia???
Is it a requirement that every little old lady in a Mercedes have a toy poodle? I swear I must have seen ten or fifteen of them this week!!!
In other news, it was in the mid 60s and the folks in SoCAL were wearing JACKETS!!! Really? Is your blood THAT thin?
I was out taking a frustration break from the meeting and saw this coming up the channel…
These can hold from 1200 to 5000 cars (the new ones carry up to 8000) depending on company and carrier… The are used to ship new cars from various factories in Europe and Asia to the USA. Sometimes the military and civilian companies contract for ‘backhaul’ services for people transferring overseas and taking vehicles with them.
I have also seen at least one of these that can also haul tanks!!! THAT is a big sumbitch!!! And it can haul maybe 100 tanks due to weight.
And this isn’t a bad place for lunch and a quickie meeting…
We didn’t have time to run out to Hodad’s, but fresh seafood works! 🙂
It’s all a matter of what you’re used to. I had a friend from Arizona used to very high temperatures who came back to visit. While walking in the morning here at 75° and fog she was wrapped up in a sweat shirt and shivering. I was in a tee shirt and shorts and sweating when she arrived.
My sister lives in Arizona as well and she called one day complaining about how it was down in the 40s and was terrible cold. My furnace had been out for 4 days part of which covered sub-zero weather but never got above mid 30s. She didn’t get a lot of sympathy from me.
Not the best riding boat in heavy seas, I bet.
My thought too, but not being a sailor, think it looks top heavy.
Fred- Good point! And we know where sympathy falls in the dictionary. 🙂
CP/WSF- I think it’s probably scary in any kind of quartering seas…
It’s scary how many lost manufacturing jobs that represents.
60 in the People’s Republik of California is like 30 anywhere else.
And I don’t know what it is with the small, yappy dogs either.
Sorry you didn’t get to Hodad’s. You know that the owner died a couple months ago, right?
Kalifornia people are very different. I’ve been here coming up on 2 years. Yesterday 2 of my employees, wool coats, gloves and watch caps, I kid you not.
1) 10 cents for a plastic bag at the store. (The store used to give them free)
2) People call in sick on rainy days.
3) After a rain, rare as it is, everyone gets sick cause the allergies come up.
4) The gun laws SUCK>>>>>>>>> But there is a huge gun friendly segment here.(They just think waiting 10 days and never being able to carry is the norm. I educate daily.)
5) TAXES on everything.
Now on to that container ship. Heavy seas is on thing, but how about a leeward side big wind? I am sure it has all the stabilizers and automation to manage it, but WOW….
Got down to 51 one winter in Honolulu. Our Secretary came to work dressed in a Parka. I chuckled.
I have not been to that area since 1983. Used to visit friends at Pacific Beach and go out on fishing trips from La Jolla way back when. That was when I was in the Border Patrol in Calexico, CA. The area around San Diego was like heaven compared to the hell hole of Calexico. Not many women with small yappy dogs in Mercedes in San Diego at that time, then were all up around Los Angeles which I visited twice in the 4 years I lived in CA, then decided to avoid it like the plague. Have fun.
Have not been to California since 1988. Hmmm. I would like to go to Napa Valley, but otherwise, I have not missed it. Great pics! And great seafood!
Ships that large & heavy tend to be fairly smooth rides, but … well, like you said, NFO. I knew a fella who’d been on the Forest Fire, er, Forrestal in the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane. He complained bitterly that they’d taken TWO 15° rolls, the poor thing.
Of course, it served him right: I met him on my tin can. Back on topic, the fresh seafood is always a good idea, too. At least you’re eating well. 🙂
Me oldest brother talked of crossing the Atlantic in a Gearing class tin can…and watching the rubber holding pieces of the upper hull together stretch until he was sure they’d break. Waves would hit the bow and crash over the entire ship. From the way he talked, it was the ride of a lifetime.
They issue the poodles at the DMV. Since my grandmother didn’t drive a Mercedes, she got a Shitzu.
Go see Dolphin.
The ships that scare me are the latest cruise ships. At least the car carrier looks wide enough to have proper ballast in the keel. The new cruise ships are WAY top heavy and look like a good still breeze will roll them over:
http://gcaptain.com/royal-caribbean-orders-fourth-quantum-class-cruise-ship/
Ed- A bunch of jobs…
LL- Good point, and no I didn’t know that. I’ll go by in June when I’m back out there.
Danny- You’re right. One of the reasons I got out of there as fast as I could! And it’s all good on the boat as long as the automated systems work. Get a blue screen, and it goes straight to s**t!!!
Juvat- Yeah, they are non-hackers… LOL
Glenn- It’s work… sigh
Fargo- Napa is good, LA/SAN, not so much…
Rev- LOL, yeah they do bitch and moan…
Jenn- ROTF… GOOD one!
Now I wish that I’d gone to eat seafood instead of fast food for lunch. If you want to tour a Sub while you’re here, and we’ve got one in port, I can help that happen, depending upon how long you’re going to be here.
California makes up for the beautiful weather and large numbers of pretty girls in bikinis by having large numbers of Californians and strict gun control laws.
Sean- Sorry bout that… That’s right down the road from you. But the San Diego weather sucked this week…LOL
I left California in 1991, never to return. I lived in North Hollywood and Huntington Beach. Both places had the same mind set: everybody is in show biz. And none of them get a dime from Hollywood, but they are all looking for that foot in the door.
Sure, they are waiting your table, washing your car or tending bar, but they ALL got a script in their back pocket. Every dang one of them. They want you to read it because THEY wrote it, or they are memorizing it for their next audition, etc. Everybody is a wannabe movie star, director, writer, producer, everybody’s a star. In their own mind.
And after they get done daydreaming, they ask you if you want fries with that.
Fredd- Good point. And the ones that actually WORK in TV/Movies usually don’t tell folks because they would be hounded…
Did you notice the ubiquitous “California signs” in every store, and on car windows, and just about everywhere? The ones that state that “The State of California has determined that (item) is hazardous to health yada yada yada”? On every shelf of a textile/sewing store; doors and walls of coffee shops; every fifty feet in parks; and on and on. Locals don’t seem to see them at all. They’re the result of public sector Civil Service employees generating regulations to grow their jobs, in collusion with Democratic Party legislators. Very strange and disheartening, because they’ll be spreading east as Californians migrate and replicate the conditions in their home state.
Sher- Yeah, I did notice those… They ARE everywhere!!! Sigh.
Tell me about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ORPO- Oh yeah… And it’s worse out where you live.
PCTC’s (the type of car carrier in the picture) ride really well. They’re not ‘top heavy’ so much as they’ve got a decent GM (metacentric height), so they roll slowly. In any kind of cross wind, the massive sail area acts, well, like a sail dampening roll in that direction so that you have smooth but more moderated rolling. They do crab pretty decently, and in a head sea, parametric rolling is an issue (look up “car carrier sea year on Youtube if you ever get tempted to go to sea) but overall they ride better than a tanker or bulker in ballast, and won’t launch you off your feet quite as often as a military ship.
I bought a hammer once that had that sign about it being made of materials known to the state of California to cause cancer. Scared me until I remembered that I didn’t live in California.
Paul- True!!! And I have the bruises to prove it, and left tracks on the bulkhead!
Fred- LOL, good one!