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(c)2013 WavyLine.com	Issue No 678 10 Dec 13
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In this issue:

1. Welcome
2. So Farewell to the List on Paper
3. Seattle Sea News
4. Sandy Galbraith's New Website
5. Writing Prize
6. And Finally...

1. Welcome

Poem of the Week

I close my eyes, it's you;
I open my eyes, it's you;
so I take the deep dive into clouds, touching it, water falls, forming lakes & oceans, you still there,
in all aspects,
reflections of whenever and forever.

Lucy Luo (2013)

News of Readers

ISA (International Surveyors and Adjusters) is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregg Newman as Managing Director of global cargo surveying operations as of 1 December 2013. Gregg gained his Master Mariner's Certificate during his time as a Senior Inspector commanding vessels in the Royal Hong Kong Marine Police and is an accomplished investigator. He is also legally qualified and joined W K Webster in 1992. Gregg remains in his role as Board Director of W K Webster & Co Ltd with overall responsibility for Cargo Recoveries departments world-wide.

mailto:GNewman@wkwebster.com

Readers Write

From Jim Davies of IMIF:-

A small inaccuracy I think by John MacFarlane in Bow Wave Issue 677 on the Christmas Dinner item. He states that Olympic/Titanic were the largest Passenger ships in thebworld. I am sure that Majestic Berengaria and Leviathan were all bigger!

mailto:IMIF@imif.org

From Roger Foord

Annual Charity Review of the Year

'Up Limus Streetius!' - a Roman Extravaganza - 23rd January 2014

This year's annual review from John Preston, Julian Kirkman-Page and myself with be held at the Xchange, Minster Court, Mincing Lane, London EC3 on Thursday 23rd January 2014.

As usual it will be a full English breakfast and entertainment around a review of the London market in 2013.

Start time is 8.30 a.m. and all will be over by 10.00.

Please let me know numbers as soon as possible as we had a full house last year. Cost will be £20 to include breakfast and contribution to one of the Philippines disaster charities.

Kind regards,

Roger Foord

07710479070

mailto:roger@rogerfoord.com

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Note from the Editor

Greetings from the Isle Of Wight where your editor hobbles about awaiting Christmas.

Longstanding Readers may recall how we find it difficult to produce a serious version of this e-zine, being overcome with seasonal levity, as we usually are.

Readers with something amusing to share, do not tarry but send in your contribution for our Xmas edition

Enjoy!

2. So Farewell to the List on Paper

Around the time the next edition of Bow Wave appears, the paper version of Lloyd's List will be no more. This follows the announcement that Lloyd's List would be available only in digital format after 20 December. The management of the paper having surveyed their customers, found only 25 were using the print version only.

So it is farewell to the oldest daily printed newspaper in these islands. The paper began in 1734 and of course continues online going forward.

Your editor began reading the List online in Hong Kong, sometime in the early 1990s when the download time was of patience-stretching length. But this limitation of the bandwidth available at the time easily compensated for the two or three days it took for the printed paper to arrive.

There is no doubt that the virtual edition of the List represents the best future it may have. A cakewalk does not await the publishers as there are some very good online publications out there dedicated to the marine and transport world and freed of its inky complications the List will have to become more central to readers in places outside the traditional and historical reach of newprint distributors in London. The readership in say South America or East Asia can certainly stand more specialist attention from the writers and editors of the List.

There are in this kind of publishing only two real jobs which have to be done, the job of the writer and the job of the advertising seller. Both are vital for any online publication.

As for the editiorial line of the paper, your editor, at the beginning of writing columns for the paper can recall asking what the editorial policy of Lloyd's List might be. The dean of shipping editors responded with an excellent reply:- Support the Good Owner.

3. Seattle Sea News

We are indebted to marine surveyor John L David for this item:-

02Dec13

Man Arrested After Stealing Victoria Clipper High-Speed Ferry in Seattle

Trade Winds By Mike Schuler

Authorities in Seattle have arrested a man accused of stealing a high-speed passenger ferry from a dock and attempting to take it on a joyride across Elliott Bay.

The Seattle Police Department reports that a man was able to commandeer the Victoria Clipper IV passenger ferry Sunday morning while docked at Pier 69 on the Seattle waterfront.

The vessel was discovered to be about 300 yards from the pier at 7 a.m. and at first appeared to be adrift.

However, upon closer inspection by a tugboat sent to retrieve the vessel it was discovered that there was a man in the pilothouse. After negotiating with the man, a SWAT team was able to board the vessel and arrest the suspect.

When asked what he intended to do with the vessel, the man told police he had planned "to take the boat to West Seattle." The suspect -identified as 33-year-old Samuel Kenneth McDonough- was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of burglary, reckless endangerment, malicious mischief and failing to register as a sex offender, the Seattle police department said. Officials are still working to determine how the man was able to commandeer the ship. The Seattle Times reports that the ferry is operated by Clipper Vacations, providing ferry service between Seattle and Victoria, B.C., and the San Juan Islands. The 330-passenger Victoria Clipper IV catamaran is one of three vessels in the Clipper fleet and can travel at speeds up to 30 knots.(ends)

John L comments:-

In order to commandeer the vessel, and based on some experience, I suspect the man walked on board, let go of the lines, and pressed the big green button marked, "start your engines".
(You have not been charged for this technical advice).
However, I had no idea that it was seemingly necessary to register as a sex offender before you should do this, (in Seattle at least), and it is odd to see that a SWAT team was required to get the (adrift) ferry back.

4. Sandy Galbraith's New Website

Frazer Hunt writes:-

Here is a blog worth following. Sandy Gailbraith is editor. He was previously the editor of Lloyds List DCN (the Australian version of Lloyd's List).

http://www.maritimeintel.com

5. Writing Prize

Mark Jackson of the Marine Society has asked us to mention the Marine Society Writing Competition. It is free to enter, the first prize is £1000 and the closing date is 31 December 2013.

http://www.marine-society.org/writingatsea

6. And Finally...

Thanks to Frazer Hunt for taking his chances and passing on these philosophical musings on the great institution of marriage:-

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
David Bissonette

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.. Sacha Guitry

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.? Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Anonymous

The great question... which I have not been able to answer.. . is, "What does a woman want?"
Dumas

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Sigmund Freud

'Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.' Anonymous

'There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.'
Sam Kinison

'I've had bad luck with both my wives.
The first one left me, and the second one didn't.' James Holt McGavra

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Patrick Murra

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once....
Nash

You know what I did before I married?
Anything I wanted to.
Anonymous

My wife and I were happy for twenty years.
Then we met.
Henny Youngman

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. Rodney Dangerfield

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'. Next day he received a hundred letters.? They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.'
Anonymous

First Guy (proudly): 'My wife's an angel!’
Second Guy: 'You're lucky, mine's still alive.’ Anonymous

All about Australia

From Frazer Hunt:-

I doubt that these are really true, but should be! __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

These were posted on an Australian tourism website, and the answers are the actual responses by the
website officials, who obviously have a great sense of humour (not to mention a low tolerance threshold for cretins!)
________________________________________________ Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ). A: We import all plants fully grown, and then just sit around watching them die.
__________________________________________________ Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? ( USA ) A: Depends how much you've been drinking.
_________________________________________________ _Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? ( Sweden)
A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles. Take lots of water.
_________________________________________________ _Q: Are there any ATM's (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay ? ( UK )
A: What did your last slave die of?
__________________________________________________ Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia ? ( USA )
A: Af-ri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. Aust-ra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not ...
Oh, forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
__________________________________________________ Q: Which direction is North in Australia ? ( USA ) A: Face south, and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions. _________________________________________________ Q: Can I bring cutlery in to Australia ? ( UK )
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.
__________________________________________________ Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? ( USA ) A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is ...
Oh, forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.
__________________________________________________ Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
A: You are a British politician, right?
_________________________________________________ _Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan
hunter/gatherers. Milk is illegal.
_________________________________________________ _Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can Dispense rattlesnake serum. ( USA )
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-mer-ica, which is where YOU come from. All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled, and make good pets. __________________________________________________ Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and
lives in trees. ( USA )
A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them.You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking __________________________________________________ Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in Australia (USA) A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather. __________________________________________________

Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia ? ( France ) A: Only at Christmas.
__________________________________________________

Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA ) A: Yes, but you'll have to learn it first.

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