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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Angus on January 01, 2007, 07:54:28 AM
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Hello all and a happy new year.
As I have mentioned before, I am about to embark on a new adventure, - from farming to seamanship. I sail in 22 hours.
This means no AH, and no forum apart from the stop in harbour every month. Much worse is no missus and kids for the same period.
However, it's probably going to be interesting, and full of new things to experience.
So....bye to you all for a while, and I'll log in later when I'm back.
(Right now I'm packing Parrot, Eyepatch, Wooden leg, Arm-hook, Striped pullover etc etc.)
Arrrfff.
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Originally posted by Angus
Hello all and a happy new year.
As I have mentioned before, I am about to embark on a new adventure, - from farming to seamanship. I sail in 22 hours.
This means no AH, and no forum apart from the stop in harbour every month. Much worse is no missus and kids for the same period.
However, it's probably going to be interesting, and full of new things to experience.
So....bye to you all for a while, and I'll log in later when I'm back.
(Right now I'm packing Parrot, Eyepatch, Wooden leg, Arm-hook, Striped pullover etc etc.)
Arrrfff.
Good luck and take care.
What kind of ship? What are you going to be doing?
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G'Luck Angus! We're going to miss you.
Stay safe.
Hajo
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I figured with all the global warming, there would be MORE farming in Iceland, not less...
Of course, there is also more water too since the ice is melting, so maybe that means more pirates. Maybe we'll see some vikings this season.
Good luck, don't fall overboard.
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good luck, as a word of warning be mindful of the flying fish as you hang out topside contemplating the insignificance of man while gazing into the star blazoned heavens. those little suckers can hurt.
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Good luck to ya Angus. Let us know how the new life is going when ya get a chance.
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Sounds like a interesting new profession for you .
Good luck to you , and wishing all the best to you and yours in this New Year 2007
spro
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Good luck to you and your family. May your seas be smooth and pirate free.
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Good luck Angus! Stay safe and stay out of the smutthull you old pirate! ;)
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harrrrrrrr!
angus
safe voyage mate.
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Thanks all.
Sailing in 12 hrs now. The Ship is a 1000 tonnes trawler, and we go after flunder, Halibut and cod in Northern waters, often above the arctic circle AFAIK.
If there is anything of interest I'll keep you posted through my wife.
Take care and keep AH running you slackers. Make sure Viking and Nilsen are busy while I vacum clean the Norwegian waters. Arrrfff. :D
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I'm pretty sure that trawler contributes to global warming...;) but regardless, may the seas be calm and the bounty plentiful, Angus!
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Be safe. Bring/buy a camera/movie camera. I hope they pay you a bundle.
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oh and before you go play that sappy rod stewart tune about sailing across the seas. then play the styx one.
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Be safe and hope to see you back soon, Angus!
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I'm pretty sure that trawler contributes to global warming...;) but regardless, may the seas be calm and the bounty plentiful, Angus!
Nah not global warming but it is dredging the bottom likely removing many more species than just the targeted marketable one. This is another example of trash fishing by scraping the bottom and not only indiscriminately taking fish but disturbing the sea floor habitat!
Bad bad Angus!!!!
:p
For the sarcasm impaired, the above was sarcasm and was not meant to be taken seriously, accuracy of the statement not withstanding..........
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Since when did Princess Cruises start going after flounder, halibut and cod?
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Have a good trip Angus and remember not to pee against he wind and dont pack your crap in a backpack. :)
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Fair seas and good fishing Angus.
From one bluenose to another.
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Hello there.
I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'd like to bring you news about Angus' fishing adventure....
In general, he seems to like it all right, hasn't been seasick except for the first day, and finds it quite interesting: lots of different fish to see, one day, they even had sharks, one of them still alive! And he tries to do his very best on the job which seems to be pretty hard.
Still, I couldn't help it to get the impression that this is NOT the job he will be doing the next years, he announced having thought about the future a lot and I will surely need a lot of time to listen to him when he comes home at the end of the month.
For those who are interested: I've got pictures of the ship, but do not really want to make them public on the internet. So, if you like, I can send you pictures, just let me know.
Goodbye from cold cold Iceland.
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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YY!!!!!
Next time you talk to him let him know that Diablo said "Howdy!!"
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Hello Mrs. Angus and welcome to the forum! So you're the prize Angus stole from the Vaterland? :)
Good to hear Angus is safe, just make sure he stays away from our fish (the old pirate!). ;)
Greetings from cold cold Norway!
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Originally posted by Angus' wife
Hello there.
I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'd like to bring you news about Angus' fishing adventure....
In general, he seems to like it all right, hasn't been seasick except for the first day, and finds it quite interesting: lots of different fish to see, one day, they even had sharks, one of them still alive! And he tries to do his very best on the job which seems to be pretty hard.
Still, I couldn't help it to get the impression that this is NOT the job he will be doing the next years, he announced having thought about the future a lot and I will surely need a lot of time to listen to him when he comes home at the end of the month.
For those who are interested: I've got pictures of the ship, but do not really want to make them public on the internet. So, if you like, I can send you pictures, just let me know.
Goodbye from cold cold Iceland.
Hi Agnus wife :)
Id love to see the pictures of the boat Agnus is on as i was wondering how he was doing.
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dont do it
:noid :noid :noid
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Hello Angus' Wife. Just tell him all the guys at the O'Club said "HARRRRRRR!!!" He'll know what it means.;)
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Thanks for the update :)
I bet it really hard work . He'll come home to you in really good shape I bet .
Wishing you the best from Michigan , USA .
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Originally posted by Debonair
dont do it
:noid :noid :noid
all i need is a bottle of scotch and a minute at the helm.... one short minute. :D
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I’d like t see the boat as well (what’s to fear about showing a picture of a big commercial boat?).
Google Earth Lat Long coordinates would be cool too.
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me too. good luck fishing, watch that outgoing line...
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I would tell you to stay warm but global warming from man made CO2 gases will do that for you.
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mmmmmmmmmm Co2 gasses :D
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Okay, I decided to post a few pictures, here they come:
The view across the harbour, Hrafn GK is the one turning to the right (in the middle of the pic):
(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155419.jpg)
A little bit closer and Angus standing there.
(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155420.jpg)
(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155421.jpg)
And that's where he is working maybe right now:
(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155422.jpg)
And that's the sitting room (Angus sitting there).
(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155423.jpg)
And the kitchen:
(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155424.jpg)
By the way: he told me that they had really rough sea so that the cook got sick himself, so they got only hot dogs ..... I told him that this would probably be better than a puking cook in the kitchen...
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Thanks for posting; intersting pictures.
Tell him we like his pink mug hanging in the galley!
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(http://www.dyrariki.is/gallery/gallerymyndir/m0155423.jpg)
Questions...
What's in his hands?
Why is he smiling?
What are all the blankets for?
Inquiring minds wanna know....
:huh
Mac
All the Best to Pirate Angst and may he return to Port safely to his better Angst.
HARRRRRRRR...
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Originally posted by AWMac
Dirty perverted minds wanna know....
There ... fixed it! :aok
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:rofl
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Good luck and calm seas to him. Here in Ireland we just lost two boats and five men in 24 hours. One of them is third generation of his family to be lost at sea. Fishing is a dammed dangerous.
I think it's in the top three most dangerous jobs along with loggers and curiously enough pilots which doesn't bode well for me. No wonder I pay higher insurance premiums.
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I love my North Atlantic cod though.
Thanks Angus!!!
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Awfrrr Harr.
I'm back. All the Norwegian cod is now ours, and on the way to the US market. Aye.
We were fishing very much around the polar circle, and there we got big cod. Also further down south catching redfish.
Our area yo the north might be expanding, because the ice is shrinking, - must be getting warmer :D
My net. illgotten gains from the month amount to some 5.000 $ so thanks for all the fish :D
I won't make it for next tour, but aiming for more. Also trying to get a leg in on the week tours, - a month in one go is not so fmily friendly. Lol, I must have been nuts to jump for a month for the first time, but I was just fine.
Another pic of the ride:
(http://www.fiskanes.is/images/hrafn.jpg)
Nice ship, and steady in the seas. We still logged a listing of 50 degs while at work once! That was a rough day.
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Dastardly pirate! Taking the food from the mouths of Norwegian children. :(
;)
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Tell me about your shipmates Angus; are they manly men?
Seriously, 5K is a pretty good take for a month, wtg. Do you get health benefits as well?
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5700 $ it was, - netto.
I am insured aboard, - the rest is public insurance, but I also have my extra one. If that is not the health benefit you refer to, well, this job is a workout, and the food is heavy ;)
The crew was mainly manly men, one manly woman :D
(normally there are two)
Lots of this guy (or similar) caught:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Rockfish.jpg)
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That's some decent money.
But you are welcome to it, Angus. There is a TV programme on at the moment about trawlermen sailing out of somewhere in Scotland. That is one tough job. The size of some of the seas... amazing.
Good to hear you made it back to dry land in one piece.
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Hello all again.
I've been on another ship, - this time it was not so much "Goodbye AH'ers" for it was one who does 6 day tours.
This one:
(http://www.skip.is/media/skipaskrain/1275.jpg)
I´ll be sailing again next week, that tour as the ship's cook, hehe.
So, I'm one of the officers then :D
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And you'll also be the one the crew beats up if you burn the stew. ;)
Have a good tour you old pirate! :)
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When I lived in Scotland, there was a guy that came into the pub on a regular basis, we used to call him goldfinger on account of his many gold rings he liked to wear lol
Anyway, he was a retired fisherman, said the worst place to go was N of Scotland at a place called the "Devils hole". Said he was on top of the mast up there once, chopping ice away in 35ft waves.
hmmm- no thanks, think I'll stay on dry land!
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Frigging waves up in the N-Atlantic are big also. You may sit in the bridge of a 1000 tn trawler, and the sea is higher than the horizon. And working fish onboard while the ship is listing zig-zag 30 to 30 degs is somewhat surrealistic.
The sea between Iceland and Greenland is pretty naughty, - in still weather you still have quite some waves. Explanation is currents passing, one northbound, one southbound. That could be the case with "the Devil's hole", or even or also some big changes in the seabed.
BTW, if you look at the pics of the two trawlers, I never experienced that calm sea.
And Viking, FYI, Iceland has been dabbling with the idea of applying for EU.
There has been a research, and a conclusion which is negative, the reason being fish. Turns out that even if we were to join with a deal about us ourselves holding our own fishing grounds, this can later be altered by vote within the EU. What is the Norse view here?
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Originally posted by Angus
Hello all and a happy new year.
As I have mentioned before, I am about to embark on a new adventure, - from farming to seamanship. I sail in 22 hours.
This means no AH, and no forum apart from the stop in harbour every month. Much worse is no missus and kids for the same period.
However, it's probably going to be interesting, and full of new things to experience.
So....bye to you all for a while, and I'll log in later when I'm back.
(Right now I'm packing Parrot, Eyepatch, Wooden leg, Arm-hook, Striped pullover etc etc.)
Arrrfff.
:(
I was away when you posted this...
Godspeed my friend, keep us updated how you get on
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Originally posted by Angus
And Viking, FYI, Iceland has been dabbling with the idea of applying for EU.
There has been a research, and a conclusion which is negative, the reason being fish. Turns out that even if we were to join with a deal about us ourselves holding our own fishing grounds, this can later be altered by vote within the EU. What is the Norse view here?
Exactly the same. Having seen what the Spanish and Portuguese fishing armadas have done to the other EU fisheries, more or less the only thing keeping us out of the EU is the protection of our offshore assets.
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Originally posted by Viking
Exactly the same. Having seen what the Spanish and Portuguese fishing armadas have done to the other EU fisheries, more or less the only thing keeping us out of the EU is the protection of our offshore assets.
Just take a look at the decimation of the Scottish Fishing Industry and you'll have your answer on join or not to join the EU:mad:
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Icelanders in the cod wars had some part to play with the decimation of the British fishing industries. (Although our foes were mostly Hull, Grimsby, and the RN :D). Anyway, it was in a nick of time, after expanding to 200 miles we had to put quota on our own fishing.
Norway as well has vast fishing grounds, and has kept it's own system. The EU has screwed up their own turf in the meantime and are hungry for more (Typical political deals etc). BTW, the Spanish once declared that they would never give a yes vote for Iceland entering unless Spain would get fishing rights in Iceland's grounds....
We have ongoing debates in the country wether to join EU or not. It was probably Norway through their vote that silenced the joiner's voices for a while, they started singing again and have been put aside recently.
Same stuff in Norway I guess?
And Hawco, How about an independed Scotland eh?
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Would love to see Scotland in charge of it's own affairs, hopefully in my lifetime anyway, glad you guys are against the EU, as once your in then you can kiss goodbye to your fishing fleets and grounds.
The spanish are like locusts when it comes to fishing.
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Hehe, Amen to that.
Just returned from a double-tour. This time we were in the N-Atlantic, south of the country. I made a debut as the ship's cook this time, - quite a challenge! Hehe, cooking and frying with everything rolling around!
BTW, the frying-pan is attached to a gyro-unit, - it is always level, so one can easily see how much the boat is rolling!
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You can hurl in the frying-pan and call it an omlet if the seas gets too rough. :)
yum!
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Get the new guys to look at that gyro-unit in high seas...:D
Glad you made it back safe.
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Originally posted by Xargos
Get the new guys to look at that gyro-unit in high seas...:D
I was going to say..
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LOL, that pan is actually quite nice, - and big, like 1/2 a yard in diameter.
Only drawback is that you cannot put much weight on to one end, for it will then tilt that way, thereby gathering all the fat in that lowest spot.
But a good idea none the less, and seems to be a standard on the trawlers.
BTW, the cook also has to wake up the shifts (6 hr shifts round the clock), - 3 out of 4. Cooks shift is 5AM to 9PM, roughly.
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Originally posted by Xargos
Get the new guys to look at that gyro-unit in high seas...:D
Glad you made it back safe.
Thank you :)
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Originally posted by Hawco
Just take a look at the decimation of the Scottish Fishing Industry and you'll have your answer on join or not to join the EU:mad:
And they raped the Grand Banks off Newfie.
Anyone watch the TV show 'Deadliest Catch'? It is about crabbing in the Gulf of Alaska. Terrible weather and seas there.
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Saw it.
Looked like dicy work. Up here, if Icing starts, the trawlers lift their nets, and run for their lives. They will ice up like aircraft, and either sink or roll over from the iceload. Bad stuff can happen in an hour or so, and the seas do not have to be that bad.
I've been on deck doing work in some rough sea, and man, I don't like it. If you get flushed out, you're dead, - simple as that. But I was lucky, the deck was never Icy.
On the trawler I went with in January, we were much farther north, and the deck was one slippery ice coated bugger. But they had a special crew for the net-jobs, and anyone going aft had a safety line.
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I get cold too easy to do that line of work. Frostbite on your fingers suck.