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It appears the MV Serenissima has run aground in Oban Bay after a fairly apalling bit of navigation.
The motor ship Serenissima, entered service in 2003 after a multi-million dollar renovation by Swedish craftsmen, in 2012 she underwent another refurbishment. With her strengthened hull for ice service, her small size and relatively shallow draft she can dock in the heart of Europe’s historic centers and is able to navigate into smaller, remote ports inaccessible to the big cruise vessels.
Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
ISTR on CC2009 being warned on the VHF by a fellow participant that I was heading between two cardinals guarding a rocky bit not a million miles from that photo.
My only defence is that I had become slightly confused following a last minute change of destination from Oban Marina to Cardingmill Bay...
Nick wrote:What, gone the wrong side of a cardinal mark?
I haven't, and wouldn't expect cruise ship captains to.
ISTR on CC2009 being warned on the VHF by a fellow participant that I was heading between two cardinals guarding a rocky bit not a million miles from that photo.
My only defence is that I had become slightly confused following a last minute change of destination from Oban Marina to Cardingmill Bay...
You should have said you were washing yer windaes . . .
.... and despite the name she's not Italian. I think even the relaxed regulatory regime of St Vincent and the Grenadines may take quite a dim view. Someone will be getting their jotters.
The story I'm hearing is that she got into an awkward position having been baulked by a ferry and was then caught out by the wind and lack of steerage way.
Silkie wrote:The story I'm hearing is that she got into an awkward position having been baulked by a ferry and was then caught out by the wind and lack of steerage way.
Certainly she was only making just over 5 knots as she came past Maiden Island
