Cape Town Dock Work

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Good day all! This is Zak Ludick writing to you from the harbor in Cape Town, South Africa. I am busy on an ship project and as such it is rather difficult to put out my usual content! I can however bring to you sights and sounds that would be unusual to most viewers.

12 hour shifts from 7 to 7, overalls, safety boots, hard hat and safety glasses is the standard norm for all workers in the docks here.

Have a look at where I am working!

Table Mountain, when it is covered like this we call it the "tablecloth".

I will speak in more details when I have the time to do so. When I have some gaps I need to write more fiction!

Cheers!
@zakludick

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Interesting photos ! Is it a trick of the light, or has the Coral Sea really got a big hole near the bow ?

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Naw, it's just a lot of rust... it is a very rust ship.

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lol, yeah I looked up a few images of her. Even 20 years ago she was a rustbucket, so I guess by now the metal is long gone and she's just made of a hundred coats of paint. 😁

Maybe she'll go the way of MOL Comfort.... https://gcaptain.com/mol-comfort-incident-photos/ - one of our wholesalers lost all the 2013 Tamiya UK Christmas stock when the "mysterious fire" broke out the day after Lloyds announced they were going to launch an investigation....

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Wow! Ouch!

Yeah I think they grind down, replace some of the worst metal and weld it in and then paint it up again.

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