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by Joske Vermeule, September 1
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I thought they used old Plimsolls to line the bottom....... 
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Graham,
Know the feeling- first thing I did was get a smaller diameter Mota-Lita steering wheel!
Regards
GLLHG
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Already done by my +4's prevous owner. Seats are higher in that though. I have no problem with the original wheel on my '76 (with bench seat).
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Haha its a fair beast. My brother was working on a ship just off nigeria not to long ago called the Bonga. Its absolutely massive!!!!  
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Is that one of those storage tankers?
Give us a clue - GRT?
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Its not, its a drilling ship and a refinery all in one if i remember rightly.
It weighs 300,000 tonnes.
It is 305.1 m long.
Has a moulded breadth of 58 m
And it is a Floating, Production, Storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Has the capability to process 225 000 barrels of crude oil a day and can export 1 million barrels onto a shuttle tanker at the rate of 1 million every 24 hours. And it is permanantly moored in the Niger Delta oil field that Shell have.
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I would love to see the anti piracy equipment they've put on her. 
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OK, That 300k tonnes: Gross, Registerd or Deadweight? e.g. the Cheveron South America was 207987.29 Gross Reg Tonnes; 171274.63 Net Reg Tonnes, MDWT was in the region of 454,000 Engine - steam turbine, 45,000 shaft horsepower Presume it's one of Shell's own vessels? Trent - if it's anything like the antipiracy we were assigned when out on SPM at Escravos, you wouldn't... Anyway, we're getting along way off the Simmonds Hood topic here! 
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Anyway, we're getting along way off the Simmonds Hood topic here! Graham isn't that one of the wonderful aspects of Talk Morgan: the conversational aspect to it.  After watching a television program about piracy in the Nigerian Delta, I was quite surprised at the fearless tactics of the pirates. Perhaps it is a matter of having little to loose and much to gain.
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