The Daily for Monday Jan 11, 2021

[TiogaCruiser2]

January 11, 2013 At Sea

This was a sea day and we had about 50 people show up for our Meet and Greet.

Lectures on South America and Antarctica started today. We had a Team that included Dr. David Bresenahan who had been an Inspector for the Antarctica Research Project, brothers Drs. David and Chris Wilson .who both provided naturalist lectures and commentary, and Benjamin the Travel Guide. The initial lectures covered the Treaty and Research Projects in Antarctica, and history of South America.  

 

In addition, Captain Bos had purchased books on Antarctica from Ebay and Amazon, and they were available as references for our use in the Crows Nest. Paper charts with our planned itinerary were taped up on walls and cadets would be sent up periodically while in Antarctica to update our position and record the correct the DR track. While Captain had a plan that would be subject to Antarctica’s finicky weather, and could be expected to be adjusted multiple times each day.

[Horizon chaser 1957]

Being technically challenged, I missed adding the link to my blog post for Devils Island a year ago today during the edit window for today’s post.  I’m not even sure it’s allowed? If so, here it is for anyone who wants to travel back in time. https://apassportinmyparasol.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/mon-dieu-cest-ile-royale-january-11/

[mamaofami]

1 hour ago, Copper10-8 said:

Starting on the evening of the last day of the cruise, it becomes a really busy time for the hardworking men and women of the Housekeeping Dept. under the leadership of the assistant housekeepers, junior housekeepers and room inspectors (depending on what class of ship you find yourself on). Teams of HK staff will start roaming the stateroom corridors with handcarts to begin picking up pax luggage placed there. This will go on until after midnight because some guests, for whatever reason, will ignore the request to place their luggage outside by 12:00 AM. HK Staff will use crew, plus designated guest elevators (the ones with blankets hanging against the walls for protection against damage), to take the luggage to the A-Deck marshalling area.

 

Prior to all that, other staff will have "unfolded" the metal luggage cages (they have been folded up and stacked in that same marshaling area since departure day) and will have placed them side-by-side in position by the break doors and going back, being very careful not to place them on the painted yellow lines which, among other things, is the pathway for the pilot under escort once he/she comes onboard in the early morning hrs on arrival day.

 

The racks/cages will be individually marked with numbered and colored tags (the same ones you receive to place on your luggage). The loading of the cages with the luggage will then commence and will be a precise process because of the way the cages are removed in the morning - by priority - by the longshoremen. On numerous occasions I have escorted the outgoing Victoria, BC pilot to the pilot break after midnight (4:30 standby that same morning for the Seattle arrival) and have seen the HK staff still hard at work stacking luggage. Great job by those boys and girls from Indonesia!   

Having been on several b2b cruises, I’ve been amazed at the amount of work the crew accomplishes in a very few hours. Hats off to the hard working crew.

[Red Haired Lady]

My travelogue from the Maasdam Jan 2020 -

 

After leaving Burnie, Tasmania, our next port was Sydney.  This was actually "turn around" day or the ending of the first segment and beginning of the second segment of my B2B cruise. I took a HAL shuttle to the area known as The Rocks.  This is close to Circular Quay and the Opera House.  I gave my new hip a challenge and we both made the walk with no problem. 

 

There was a little trolley that you could ride for about AU$ 5 around the Royal Botanic Gardens. What a deal! And my new hip really liked it.

My lunch was passion fruit gelato. Yummy.

Getting back to the Maasdam in Sydney Harbour.

And we sailed under the Harbour bridge on the way to Mare, New Caledonia.

 

Janet

[Copper10-8]

1 hour ago, Suslor said:

Thanks for crediting the hardworking men and women of the housekeeping staff. I enjoyed seeing the pictures of the baggage process and your explanation of the process, but I’m sorry, I must take umbrage with your calling those who do the stacking the “boys and girls” from Indonesia. They are the men and women of Indonesia. 

 

Your umbrage is well taken since, of course, we're speaking of adults which they all have to be in order to be employed on the ships! I used a term of endearment since I respect the very vast majority of them and saw heir work product on a daily basis

Edited January 11, 2021 by Copper10-8

[Copper10-8]

1 hour ago, TiogaCruiser2 said:

January 11, 2013 At Sea

This was a sea day and we had about 50 people show up for our Meet and Greet.

Lectures on South America and Antarctica started today. We had a Team that included Dr. David Bresenahan who had been an Inspector for the Antarctica Research Project, brothers Drs. David and Chris Wilson .who both provided naturalist lectures and commentary, and Benjamin the Travel Guide. The initial lectures covered the Treaty and Research Projects in Antarctica, and history of South America.  

 

In addition, Captain Bos had purchased books on Antarctica from Ebay and Amazon, and they were available as references for our use in the Crows Nest. Paper charts with our planned itinerary were taped up on walls and cadets would be sent up periodically while in Antarctica to update our position and record the correct the DR track. While Captain had a plan that would be subject to Antarctica’s finicky weather, and could be expected to be adjusted multiple times each day.

 

The tug "Algarrobo" (meaning "The Winds") based out of Quellon, Isla de Chiloé / Chiloe Island, Region de los Lagos, Chile

 

[Copper10-8]

2 hours ago, sailingdutchy said:

Good Day Daylyites . We have been doing quite a bit of Travel Challenges with our family and friends on an other website to pass the time  but I have been keeping a close eye on CC of coarse and have been thinking a lot of the wonderful crews that have now been at sea for months and months without being able to go ashore , wander around or do their personal shopping . 

 

Today I would like to share a number of pictures of a fantastic tour we had with the Chief Engineer of one of the ships ( think I should not divulge that ) down under in the heart of the ship the place that it makes it all tick .  We were with six of us 5 Electrical and Mechanical engineers and one Civil. 

Everything was incredibly clean but it was quite noisy . An amazing experience . 

 

I have also been thinking of all the wonderful Hotel Staff , most of whom are now at home maybe doing other jobs or waiting and hoping like us to soon be able to get on board again .................

 

 

Nice tour and talk by the chief, Tony; consider yourself one of the lucky ones 😉 Ear protection is mandatory plus it can get pretty hot down there - Take care and be safe and "het beste," Meneer uit Zeeland! 😉 

[Copper10-8]

Just a quickie; what those same luggage bins look like in the hands of longshoremen (this pic was taken in Seattle, WA) and oh yeah, what any respectable HAL SECO, born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, wears while off-duty in his cabin 😉

[TiogaCruiser]

Could those be added to dress uniform for the Orange Party😇?

[TiogaCruiser]

1 hour ago, Red Haired Lady said:

 

 

My lunch was passion fruit gelato. Yummy.

 

Oh my. Lunch of my dreams. Gotta make some of that.

[Happily@Sea]

delete - it was suppose to edit

 

 

Edited January 11, 2021 by Happily@Sea

[Happily@Sea]

3 minutes ago, Happily@Sea said:

I resemble the quote [especially when other make it look easy]   lol

 

 

 

Edited January 11, 2021 by Happily@Sea

[StLouisCruisers]

@TiogaCruiserI see you are signed in again as "yourself".  Thank you for starting your Antarctica cruise and also @Red Haired Ladyfor your Australia cruise.  We have to live through each other's adventures.

[Himself]

3 hours ago, TiogaCruiser2 said:

January 11, 2013 At Sea

This was a sea day and we had about 50 people show up for our Meet and Greet.

Lectures on South America and Antarctica started today. We had a Team that included Dr. David Bresenahan who had been an Inspector for the Antarctica Research Project, brothers Drs. David and Chris Wilson .who both provided naturalist lectures and commentary, and Benjamin the Travel Guide. The initial lectures covered the Treaty and Research Projects in Antarctica, and history of South America.  

 

In addition, Captain Bos had purchased books on Antarctica from Ebay and Amazon, and they were available as references for our use in the Crows Nest. Paper charts with our planned itinerary were taped up on walls and cadets would be sent up periodically while in Antarctica to update our position and record the correct the DR track. While Captain had a plan that would be subject to Antarctica’s finicky weather, and could be expected to be adjusted multiple times each day.

Pieter BOS was a great Captain.  He was also outstanding in Alaska and one of frienliest Masters in the fleet.

[Copper10-8]

1 minute ago, Himself said:

Pieter BOS was a great Captain.  He was also outstanding in Alaska and one of frienliest Masters in the fleet.

 

One of the best, Father and loved by his crew! PS, also a huge Formula 1 racing fan

[Himself]

1 minute ago, Copper10-8 said:

 

One of the best, Father and loved by his crew! PS, also a huge Formula 1 racing fan

 

 

He was the only one who would announce whale spottings or bear sottings in Glacier Bay.   When I was CHALAIN he would always go out of his way to say hello.

[VintageGeo]

20 minutes ago, Himself said:

Pieter BOS was a great Captain.  He was also outstanding in Alaska and one of frienliest Masters in the fleet.

 

17 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:

One of the best, Father and loved by his crew! PS, also a huge Formula 1 racing fan

We certainly enjoyed sailing with Captain Bos on our first Alaska cruise. We appreciated the heads up for the bear family in Glacier Bay and still laugh at his 'enthusiasm' when telling us to expect floatplanes in Ketchikan. Thanks for bringing up some good memories.

 

Lori & George

 

 

[XBGuy]

34 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:

 

One of the best, Father and loved by his crew! PS, also a huge Formula 1 racing fan

 

Probably easy to guess who his favorite driver is.

[erewhon]

Thanks for the daily update.

@rafinmdyour menu sounds very good, we will be having lamb chops on the BBQ for dinner this evening.

No puddles here, it's a lovely warm sunny summer day.

Found a HAL laundry sticker from the Maasdam on my clothing this morning.  

@TiogaCruiser2you were so very lucky to sail with  Captain Bos.

Stay safe everyone.

 

[Copper10-8]

14 minutes ago, XBGuy said:

 

Probably easy to guess who his favorite driver is.

 

You're right on with that one however, he likes Lewis Hamilton also 😉 

 

[bobpatj]

Go Browns!  We must be dreaming, but we love it!

[mamaofami]

watching On The Waterfront. The opening scene has a blue hulled ship and two smokestacks. I used DuckDuck Go to identify the ship and it said it was the SS Maasdam filmed  in Hoboken. I know Hal doesn’t use that port now, but does anyone know ? Watching a bit further into the film and there’s a sign on a building that says Holland America Line.

Edited January 12, 2021 by mamaofami

[Copper10-8]

1 hour ago, mamaofami said:

watching On The Waterfront. The opening scene has a blue hulled ship and two smokestacks. I used DuckDuck Go to identify the ship and it said it was the SS Maasdam filmed  in Hoboken. I know Hal doesn’t use that port now, but does anyone know ? Watching a bit further into the film and there’s a sign on a building that says Holland America Line.

 

tss (turbine steam ship) Rijndam (from 1951) or her sister tss Maasdam (from 1952) made a cameo in the 1954 crime drama motion picture "On the Waterfront". Both ships made regular runs from Rotterdam to HAL's Hoboken, New Jersey 5th Street Pier (usually via Le Havre and Southampton) - see attached 1st pic - 

Interesting tidbit is that both ships were laid down as freighters, Rijndam was originally going to be the Dinteldyk and Maasdam, the Diemerdyk. HAL, throughout its history had passenger ship names end in "dam" and freighters/cargo ships in "dyk." During construction, the then powers to be at HAL decided that both ships should be changed to passenger ships. The other big change was that both ships introduced HAL's new color scheme of that time; a gray hull, a white superstructure, a yellow funnel with the green-white-green official colors of the city of Rotterdam (from its logo/seal).

 

Both ships were soon known as the "economy twins" however, having been designed as freighters, they were not comfy ships to ride across the big Atlantic, especially during winter weather

 

HAL started using using New Jersey berths, first Sussex and York Streets in Jersey City, then 5th Street in Hoboken, since as early as 1892. It would remain HAL's primary berth in the greater New York City area until 1964 when the company relocated across the river to the Manhattan borough of the Big Apple 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2021 by Copper10-8

[Overhead Fred]

31 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:

tss (turbine steam ship) Rijndam (from 1951) or her sister tss Maasdam (from 1952) made a cameo in the 1954 crime drama motion picture "On the Waterfront".

 

Both of those ships had single stacks I believe. So what was the twin funneled ship in the movie opening? There is a single funnel ship that can be seen towards the right as the scene pulls back

[Copper10-8]

30 minutes ago, Overhead Fred said:

 

Both of those ships had single stacks I believe. So what was the twin funneled ship in the movie opening? There is a single funnel ship that can be seen towards the right as the scene pulls back

 

ss Nieuw Amsterdam from 1937, the "Darling of the Dutch" - Time to see the movie

 

Found a clip in which you can clearly see/read "Nieuw Amsterdam" on the double stacker in the beginning. Unable to read the name of the single stacker but it is Rijndam or Maasdam

 

 

Edited January 12, 2021 by Copper10-8