BOW WAVE 237

Mulberry Harbour Edition

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(c)2004 WavyLine.com	Issue No 237 07 Jun 04
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Editor: Sam Ignarski
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In this issue:

1. Welcome
2. Hull Market Continues Moderately Dismal
3. Salvage Events On Line
4. HK Marine Department Site Reports Good Progress on ISPS
5. Greek Owners Join RINA Hellenic Committee
6. And Finally...

1. Welcome

A Prayer for Oldies (see item 6)

May the Allmighty grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference.

New Readers this week include:

Dave Morrow, PR & Marketing Manager of Fugro NV
Gary Bhojwani,President, Commercial Business at
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company in California
Christopher Barnes
David Style
Barry Sear of CCL Compliance in London
Michel Heer of Capezzana Shipping and Trading in Switzerland Klaus A. Mueller of Navexperts Inc

News of Readers

Craig Neame has rejoined Holman Fenwick & Willan and will be involved in the firm's logistics and multimodal practice.

Contact him at:

craig.neame@hfw.co.uk

David Cheslin of Dunelm Public Relations (and guest editor of Bow Wave) wonders whether any Bow Wave readers have sons or daughters (or friends of sons and daughters) seeking a start in PR. Dunelm is looking for a recent or imminent graduate with strong writing skills to join its team specialising in shipping and marine insurance matters. More details can be obtained from:-

davidcheslin@dunelmpr.co.uk

John Nichols, for many years the loss prevention man at the TT Club retired on 31MAY04.

Readers Write:

Artur Cossa in Maputo, Mozambique writes:-

On behalf of Manica Freight Services (Moç) Sarl, in general, and of the Marine Claims Division in particular, we are very sad to say that today local newspaper has announced the death of Marine (Ships) Surveyor, Eng. João Jaime Sitoe on 02JUN044 at Maputo Central Hospital, due to undisclosed reasons.

For the family our heartfelt condolences.

Peace to his soul.

Contact him at:-

acossa@manica.co.

Xavier S Hencker writes:

There was a nice quote in the Guardian from one of the artists who lost work in the Momart warehouse fire covered in Bow Wave Issue 236:-

Jake and Dinos Chapman, however, had their minds on other things yesterday, despite losing their major piece, Hell.

"We're having a bit of a disaster in the studio," Dinos said. "There's a flood. We've had fire and flood and now we are expecting pestilence."

He added: "If the insurers decide the fire is an act of God it's going to be quite funny - that God destroyed Hell. In fact if that happens I will start going to church.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1225678,00.html

Greetings from a part of the maritime world which is pausing to commemorate the D-Day Landings' 60th
Anniversary. Large parties have travelled to Normandy from where the remains of the Mulberry Harbours built in Southampton to serve as temporary ports during the invasion are still visible in places

http://www.normandiememoire.com/NM60Anglais/2_histo2/histo2_p4_gb.htm

Enjoy.

2. Hull Market Continues Moderately Dismal

William Beveridge, 34, Lloyds Syndicate 1209, a very young chairman of the Joint Hull Committee and one of the main advocates for drastic improvements in hull rates is, according to recent reports, going on gardening leave. Your editor has known a number of people who in different ways were deeply engaged with hull insurance in London: Roger Nixon, Jonathan Jones, Mark Carter and William Beveridge. All have ultimately been caught in the undertow of a tide of red ink. A column on the subject follows next week.

3. Salvage Events On Line

There is something of an encouraging trend these days for major salvage events to be depicted on websites. Here is one on the Cape Africa, the sticken tanker:-

http://www.capeafricasalvage.co.za/pics.htm#31may1

4. HK Marine Department Site Reports Good Progress on ISPS

Our research in recent weeks on the readiness of ships and ports to comply with the ISPS Code by 01JLY04 led us to the rather good site maintained in HK by the Marine Department which, for want of a more old fashioned port authority is what the SAR has to organise port affairs.

The website has come on leagues since its launch in the l990s

http://www.mardep.gov.hk/en/publication/pressrel/pr040602.html

5. Greek Owners Join RINA Hellenic Committee

John Guy Writes:-

Greek shipowners have backed a move by Italy-based classification society RINA to expand its presence in Greece. Nineteen representatives of the Hellenic shipping community have joined RINA's newly-reformed Hellenic committee.

The RINA Hellenic Committee will meet twice a year. A Technical Committee, composed of technical representatives of the Hellenic Committee members and of RINA experts, will be established to work on detailed areas of particular interest.

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE RINA HELLENIC COMMITTEE

Chairman, Marios STAFILOPATIS, Byzantine Maritime Co.

Anthony E. COMNINOS, Target Marine S.A.

George DALACOURAS, Dalex Shipping Co. S.A.

Andreas N. HADJIYANNIS, Cyprus Maritime Co. Ltd

Adamantios M. LEMOS, Ceres Hellenis Shipping Enterprises Ltd

Nicos J. MANESSIS, Halyvourgia Thessalias S.A.

Andreas MARTINOS, Minerva Marine Inc.

Enzo MORFINI, Medcare Shipping S.A.

Markos NOMIKOS, A.M. Nomikos Transworld Maritime Agencies S.A.

Simos PALIOS, Diana Shipping Agencies S.A.

Basil PAPACHRISTIDIS, Hellespont Steamship Co.

Andreas PETRAKIS, Iolcos Hellenis Maritime Enterprise Co. Ltd

George PROCOPIU, Dynacom Tankers Management

Costantino TOMASOS, Tomasos Brothers Inc.

Panagiotis N. TSAKOS, Tsakos Shipping and Trading S.A.

Myron TSATSAKIS, Modion Maritime Management S.A.

Nick VAFIAS, Brave Maritime Co. Inc.

Yannis VARDINOYANNIS, Anek

George YOUROUKOS, Technomar Shipping Inc.

RINA SpA is a Genoa-based classification society formed in 1861. It is a founding member of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). As at December 31, 2003, the RINA-classed totalled more than 17 million gt. RINA classes all types of vessel and is especially active in passenger shipping, high-technology vessels, and in providing combined services to shipowners. It has the highest
proportion of double-hulled tankers in class of any IACS member.

Contact person: Stefano BERTILONE

e-mail:rg

6. And Finally...

Thanks to Jeff Blum for these which might be called Remembrances of (American) Things Past:-

NOSTALGIA

Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."

"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was
green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look
larger.

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine." I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

Further reading on this general subject:-

http://tempsperdu.com/

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