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Topic: Tenders stored facing towards the stern rather than bow?

cruiseshipluver
First Class Passenger
Member # 5104

posted 11-12-2006 07:05 PM

I have been seeing this quite lately and regularly on some cruiseships, is this something normal, practiced elsewhere? I always thought that all the lifeboats and tenders faced forward all the time.

However, i have been seeing the opposite on some occasions. For example, i think it was sometime last week when Maasdam was here she was doing lifeboat training/drills on the Port side...and took down all boats and tenders then hauled back up one tender but the tender's stern was facing forward and bow to the ship's stern.

They did now put her back down and turned around... Also i saw it the other day with Noordam here, she dropped all three tenders on the port side and picked them back up and had them in the opposite manner. However she did not sail with them like that though, So could someone tell me the reason for this?
cruiseshipluver

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mike sa
First Class Passenger
Member # 5957

posted 11-13-2006 01:04 AM

This would be highly unusal, while possible to hoist the tenders out of the water stern forward (but only by their own specific davits) it would not be possible to pull them inboard as the chocks on which they rest once inboard are specifically shaped to take only certain parts of the boats (ie the bow area is a much different shape from the stern) and indeed only certain boats will fit in each place, the tenders are a different size and shape from the "regular" lifeboats. In 10 years of working at sea and numerous cruises thereafter I have never yet seen this - perhaps what you saw was a cock up rather than anything else. On newer ships especially boats are plugged in to charge batteries etc. again they are specifically designed to be carried on either port or starboard sides with corresponding fittings and thus forward facing.

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Indarra
First Class Passenger
Member # 6005

posted 11-13-2006 02:41 AM

Maybe they were being painted.

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 11-13-2006 04:24 AM

Maybe some a/b wanted us to start a new topic. Try to stop us discussing the new HAL name

Once someone told me that the lifeboats hung facing bow was that whene they are lowerd down. And there was still motion in the ship the lifeboats where able to manouver easyer frome the ship.
Maybe some one who cane explain.

Maasdam post 2501 Greetings Ben.

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Sutho
First Class Passenger
Member # 6234

posted 11-13-2006 05:02 AM

The lifeboats would have to be facing bow if they were to be released while the ship was on the run. I dont know if cruise lines practice this but Naval ships release lifeboats at speed to train for man overboard recovery etc.

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cruiseshipluver
First Class Passenger
Member # 5104

posted 11-13-2006 10:27 AM

Indeed it is quite strange, I never saw this occuring untill recently. It not only happens on cruiseships, ive seen on come container ships that have davit launched boats with them facing astern. And on one occasion i saw a Tanker with a free fall boat with its bow pointing up towards the accomodation block and stern towards the water.
Now if you ask me that is pure foolishness because supposed the crew had a real emergency? free fall boats are not designed to enter the water stern 1st.
cruiseshipluver

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