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I don’t know and I doubt if Calmac would tell us if it was in the same place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deeranged
The MV Lord of Isles has also had to be taken out of service for repairs due to corrosion.
This never used to happen in the past but thanks to the failure of the Scottish Government to keep building new ferries for the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes the ferries are getting more and more elderly and clapped out.
When do you think steel started rusting?Quote:
Originally Posted by islaydarkblue
https://gilsongray.co.uk/property/ra...-road-P201850/Quote:
Originally Posted by Returnofrros
There is a mistake in the description. It states that the site is a short iron from the famous Carnoustie golf courses. It is about two miles away which you as a golfer will know is a lot further than a short iron (shot) which is about 150 yards at the most.
This site is a lot closer to the world famous Panmure Barry golf course when Ben Hogan practiced for two weeks before the won the Open Championship in July 1953.
It was Ben Hogan’s one and only time he entered the Open Championship as it cost him more to travel and stay in the U.K. before and during the tournament than he won in prize money.
There has never been a problem with Calmac ferries being taken out of service due to rusting steel or it being discovered when they get their annual overhaul until the last two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deeranged
Seriously? Is it possible that the information just wasn't made public until the last two years? Thing is that every steel built sea going vessel has, since they started making them, suffered from corrosion issues - it's the nature of the beast. It's actually not confined to steel as most metals will corrode more rapidly in a sea spray atmosphere.Quote:
Originally Posted by islaydarkblue
Is it not also possible that the acceptance criteria has tightened over the last two years? That would possibly mean that prior to that the yards just weren't rejecting the corrosion.
Twenty years ago some of the crew on the Kennacraig to Islay ferry in good weather in the summer months used to be painting exposed parts of the ship on the various decks during the crossings but that never happens nowadays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deeranged
The other more important problem is that the average age of all the Calmac has greatly increased since the SNP gained power at Holyrood in 2007.
Since 2007 there have only been two new large car ferries built for the Clyde and Hebridean ferry routes.
The MV Finlaggan which went into service in May 2011 had been in the planning long before 2007 as my wife and I attended a public meeting about the new Islay ferry in the Gaelic College in Bowmore, Isle of Islay in August 2003.
The MV Loch Seaforth ferry was built around 2013 and it was leased from Lloyds Banking Group until the Scottish Government decided to repay the deal about a month before one of the main engines in the MV Loch Seaforth broke down resulting in it being withdrawn from service for major repairs.
Nicola Sturgeon and the rest of the Scottish Government ministers need to remember that the Calmac ferries are the bridge from the islands to the Mainland.