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Doesn't fit the narrative of the current Fed Gov't that's why.
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Awesome! BZ to the crew!!
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Then the RCN PA folks wouldn’t have been approved to release the article.
The LPC is (rightly) getting lambasted for the state of the CAF. Any “good news story” would be a break for them.
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Patch I noticed for HMCS Max Bernays transit between the coasts.
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looks like no problems
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Wait - I’ve seen this ep of The 3 Body Problem…
Rainbow1910
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Mad Max made it to Esquimalt today.
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I can hear the comments about the rust discharge and why didn't the ship paint them over on social media already....
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Already happened.
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You should have seen MON on the way out the door on the weekend...it was notable...alas, when you've only got so many person hours, and so many things that actually need repair/maintenance, I can see how rusticles have less meaning.
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I can’t remember where I heard this, but I thought that due to environmental regs (especially in the US and Canada), you can’t paint ship while underway.
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Its a lot of things. Once each year we sent ships down to the naval station Roosevelt Roads Puerto just to paint the ship and that was over 25 years ago. Ships now get a full paint ship each time they go into a refit by contractors and it could be years between refits. The type of paint is changed to two part product and we no longer allowed to paint ourselves except for touchups and even then massive precautions. I would imagine Esquimalt even has stricter regs on painting. When Montreal left she was looking a little haggard especially when she deployed only 6 months ago. With the month before deployment filled with maintenance, lectures, DAG, refresher training, appointments, and getting ready for WUPS sprucing up the ship was low priority.
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Rust never sleeps, but to stay on it means the crew doesn’t either.
www.navalnews.com
NAVSEA Comments on Rusty U.S. Navy Ships and New Paint Coatings - Naval News
NAVSEA replied why U.S. Navy warships are rusty, an issue that has attracted the attention of the public, social media, and the media.
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Lot's of the higher end merchant ships are in good repair, despite minimal docking and refits. I have to wonder if they use better coatings and prep work?
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Most don’t brave weather that Navies sail in though. Also one tends to suspect private entities may not alway heed environmental regulations on painting.
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As someone who lives within 100 miles of Baltimore, how dare you question the professionalism of the civilian merchant vessel maintenance program.
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The paint is probably a polyurethane epoxy with isocyanate as the hardener-key word there is cyanate as in cyanide. My son almost got busted last December for spray foaming a house boat on the water even though everything was tarped and boom around it. Nosy neighbours called Transport Canada/CCG/MOE. Apparently nothing was allowed to fall in the water, anything that did was a contaminant. Not much of a sense of humour about it as my son asks even my hat? Answer YES
you really think so? Sitting next to Lock 1 on the Welland might just change your mind about that. Most going through are showing significant rust, dents, scrapes. I believe that they require an out of water inspection every 5 years and I can assure you that when they leave the dry dock many have not been re-pointed and if they are fresh water sailors they have not been undercoated
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i said higher end merchant ships, the various fleets run the gambit that goes from death trap to Starship. merchants try to avoid storms, but they have routes and timetables they must meet. They spend a lot of time at sea. I would agree that they are not as particular as we are in regards to the environment.
