Samskip Pioneer
Posted on 30 June 2009
Samskip Pioneer, a container ship, docked in Cork last weekend. We were down by the Marina in Blackrock on a blistering hot Saturday. While us Irish sat in the shade, Spanish students sat out in the 3pm sun, some wearing long sleeve tshirts! I know, I know, they’re used to the heat but the mind still boggles. I’m useless if the temperature goes above 25C.
Anyway, I went searching and found aprs.fi where you can track the radio transmissions from shipping and found this map showing the location of Samskip Pioneer last Saturday. Login as “V2BT5″, the callsign of the ship. Yes, it’s in Cork Harbour!
The lines might be wrong but then they’re as the crow flies and a big ship doesn’t fly.
What do you think of the border? I adjusted the image in Bibblepro using it’s lens guide which created the border. Normally I’d resize it out but this time I liked the effect.
1 Response to Samskip Pioneer
The tracking website is excellent. I run past those boats all the time and have often entertained a michael palin-esque adventure that would start with a cabin on one of these boats to Rotterdam. The rest of the trip is sketchy but could include the trans siberian railway. The boarder looks like the edge of a CRT (a telly).