Marino

On 04/03/2022 at 19:13, S-Westerly said:

I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place. On one hand I've got Ukrainians who don't even know if they'll have a country to go home to. On the other I've got 2 Russians who I've known for years and are a couple of the nicest guys you could hope to meet. However they've not been paid last month and the company is scratching for ways to do it without breaking sanction rules. Might be impossible.  Also they are getting sent home in the next week or so and as it stands there is serious doubt as to whether they'll be able to come back. Now my company alone has about 450 Russian officers. Replacing them with any kind of a warm body is going to be incredibly hard. Now think about it - globally there's about 70,000 Russian officers on all these ships carrying your oil, gas, cars, wheat  toys and anything else that gets shipped by sea. Whose going to replace them? Its going to be a nightmare and will have knock ons as guys who are supposed to be relieved by Russians won't be. Of 9 officers on here 4 of us are supposed to be relieved by Russians and that's pretty typical across our fleet.

We have 25 Russians on board and they all getting paid no issue, Norwegian flag, only issue is now there is no more Russians coming on board as there is no flights and those on board must extend their contract. Same with Ukrainian, looks like they will stay for some time.

I don’t ride in winter time, at least not often so little I can say,  but working on board the ship (cruise), I can tell you rinse it daily after ride, and use the cover. Obviously where rust starts to show up it need to be cleaned, at least that is easy in the beginning of rusting process, if you let it for a while it will go deeper in the metal.

Rinse, clean the rust, apply any rust blocker.

And when ever is possible cover your bike.

8 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

With all respect to Marino, with only 24 guys on board there's a lot of room for tensions to get exaggerated and no way to avoid meeting people. Also if your home is under occupation by an enemy state how do you even go home?

For that matter the Russian guys who are mostly not fans of the regime will have trouble leaving/joining ships too. Schengen and US visas will be impossible to get and flights problematic.

It is different on cargo ships I agree 

On 23/02/2022 at 09:42, S-Westerly said:

My current crew has both Russians and Ukrainians so that's going to be an interesting dynamic. Also my Chief Mate is a Latvian and really doesn't like Russians so I suspect I'll be having to try and keep the peace. The guy I'm relieving is a Russian too.

Really newer had any problem on board with different nationalities. We have 70 to 80 different nationalities on board and all is ok. There is the bigger or smaller conflict everywhere on earth at every moment and all our crew were always normal. Maybe at home they will be different but here on board all is ok.

we have few mixed couples on board Russians with Ukrainian and they are still ok, normal people.

maybe on cruise ships things are bit different than on cargo 

Believe that in UK should be similar as in EU, pedestrian shall cross the road only on zebra crossing.

But i don’t see them much in UK.

So driver will be aware where legal crossings are, and same for pedestrians.

Than if they are crossing out of  zebra crossing, they fault.

in us you can get fined crossing out of zebra crossing 

Wish u happy birthday  

Maybe in April, now I am on the  

not really from Manchester area but almost every ride is to Glossop  and the snake  

For regular road users, riding according speed limits, pressure that is in manual shall be ok.

as well few psi up or down wouldn’t change a lot 

who ever said that pressure from manual is not ok, must be riding it slightly over the speed limits

exemption granted to those with luggage and pillion.

Seriously, pressure depends from road conditions, temperature, and your riding.

That will be important on race track, or on public roads if you are rebel

Happy and better 2022

There was a study regarding car drivers and perception. They are looking for cars, trucks, but not motorcycles.

Unfortunately, brain is set up for something else and by the time processor process the picture it is too late for bike riders. I don’t remember percentage’s but think it was very high, around 70 + percent didn’t register motorcycles even they clearly could see them.

Moonset on approach Sete 

10 hours ago, billy sugger said:

What does the tree remind you of

Dirty mind

One from Atlantic Ocean few months ago

One from today
 

As long it makes u happy, who cares about other people opinions.

Thats why I got superduke gt 

Bike will be most of time in the garage connected to cteck charger. Maybe some occasional ride if not cold and wet.

20 hours ago, Pie man said:

Not bad luck, that's the way it is for the vast majority of people, good ole Brexit. I've always paid duty on goods from outside of Europe in the past. 

Not sure, recently ordered bunch of stuff from all over the world and this is first time to pay VAT. Or maybe it was already calculated in the price on previous orders. Vill have to pay more attention 

Two weeks ago I purchased roof box from Italy on Amazon. Had to pay vat, delivery was by DPD. So assume bad luck?

Secret is to maintain a proper speed, same as u turns. Too slow you go down, at least foot down. Too fast, end up on the wrong side. I found it’s trickier to go up hill as if too slow there is little room for correction. Down hill bit easier, at least to me.

Resin 

It has to be blue. I would paint  mine if don’t become blue

Never give-up, follow the rainbow  

Soon all sports and competitions involving internal combustion engines will become rude and barbaric behaviour. Historians will talk about them as today they are talking about gladiators in Ancient Rome.

If 20 years ago someone told me that skateboarding and bmx will become Olympic  sports I wouldn’t believe.

On 13/08/2021 at 21:03, Hoggs said:

Well that's not helpful

 

its the wrong colour I know... but I love it a lot  Z750

Nice bike, I had Z750R mat black many years ago. Great machine

8 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Jahre Viking was a dog. She was jumboised to make her more that 600,000 tonnes but they never upgraded her steering so in bad weather she was unsteerable in autopilot. The big Esso ones (Atlantic and Pacific) were much better. They were designed to be fast by the standards of the class. 15 knots loaded and 18 in ballast. 200 tonnes a day of fuel though. Used to take bunkers in 20,000 tonne parcels. "Green" they were not.

2 or 3 times was along side jahre wen she become storage with 300 000 vlcc, we were so small compare to her