Zaandam horn broken?

[Kesstral]

Sailing away from vancouver now and the foghorn just stopped after 3 minutes or so... maybe longer. Captain just explained their whistle got stuck. Really feel for the crewmember t that i just saw climbing down from unsticking it.

 

We might have a new record though!

[PathfinderEss]

Glad they got it fixed.:D

[erewhon]

Thanks for this information.

Where did the crew member have to climb to do the repair?

Have a great cruise.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Glad they got the fog horn fixed.

[sail7seas]

Interesting. :)

I think this is the first I've heard a report of the fog horn sticking. Hope someone

had a can of 3-1 oil. :D

Good it's fixed.

 

[Copper10-8]

HAL ships have two whistles/fog horns. One is located in the radar/main mast above the Crows Nest (white megaphone shape with black center under larger of the two radars) and the other one is located in the forward part of the funnel (white rectangular box on left with black center) . The Bridge can switch between the two and/or combine them. Under normal circumstances, the aft one is used since the fwd one is located above/in the vicinity of sleeping quarters. Sounds like perhaps an air flow issues with Zaandam yesterday

 

 

[SilvertoGold]

HAL ships have two whistles/fog horns. One is located in the radar/main mast above the Crows Nest (white megaphone shape with black center under larger of the two radars) and the other one is located in the forward part of the funnel (white rectangular box on left with black center) . The Bridge can switch between the two and/or combine them. Under normal circumstances, the aft one is used since the fwd one is located above/in the vicinity of sleeping quarters. Sounds like perhaps an air flow issues with Zaandam yesterday

 

 

 

Neat! I will be looking for both next cruise. Love this kind of information!

[sail7seas]

Copper,

You have such depth of knowledge about the ships and their parts and pieces and are very generous to educate us. It's so interesting.

 

Did you learn all this through the years because of your interest in ships or was much of it cram study in training when you became an Officer on board?

 

[solocanadian]

HAL ships have two whistles/fog horns. One is located in the radar/main mast above the Crows Nest (white megaphone shape with black center under larger of the two radars) and the other one is located in the forward part of the funnel (white rectangular box on left with black center) . The Bridge can switch between the two and/or combine them. Under normal circumstances, the aft one is used since the fwd one is located above/in the vicinity of sleeping quarters. Sounds like perhaps an air flow issues with Zaandam yesterday

 

 

Thanks for the facts, John. Very interesting! You truly are a wealth of information.

:)

[Kesstral]

It was the one above the Crow's Nest. There were lots of people scrambling down from the sky deck after a few minutes. We could hear the captain blowing the rear horn too.

 

Cruise has started off fantastic and the crew has been great. Ship is a bit rocky sailing between the north end of Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii.

[Typhoon1]

Thanks for the facts, John. Very interesting! You truly are a wealth of information.

:)

 

John never fails to educate us. :cool:

[WeRockChalkKU]

Hope to see more posts from you about your cruise.

[erewhon]

HAL ships have two whistles/fog horns. One is located in the radar/main mast above the Crows Nest (white megaphone shape with black center under larger of the two radars) and the other one is located in the forward part of the funnel (white rectangular box on left with black center) . The Bridge can switch between the two and/or combine them. Under normal circumstances, the aft one is used since the fwd one is located above/in the vicinity of sleeping quarters. Sounds like perhaps an air flow issues with Zaandam yesterday

 

 

 

 

Thanks for this information.

Really appreciate you educating us.

[SilvertoGold]

Hope to see more posts from you about your cruise.

 

 

I'll second that!

[Kesstral]

Hope to see more posts from you about your cruise.

 

I'll try to find some time tonight or tomorrow to write up a "live from" for everyone :-) (just having dinner in Juneau with free wifi)

[sail7seas]

We'll look forward to any comments you wish to share with us.

 

Enjoy your cruise. :)