otek
29th January 2010, 17:09
Hello all,
Let's get it out there: I am a certified land crab, and most of you have probably forgotten more about ships than I will ever learn. Yet I have a long standing fascination with big ships, particularly tankers.
I was born in Göteborg, Sweden, and one of my earliest memories of childhood is that of my dad taking me down to Eriksberg and watching the construction of the M/S Svealand OBO carrier. I remember my awe and fascination with the sheer size of the steel plates being welded together, and I can still remember the smells and sounds. In my young mind, the ship was a huge, benign leviathan, a sea creature with a heart and a soul.
As I grew older, that image never quite left me, and is probably the reason why now, as a grown man with mostly unrelated pursuits taking up my time, I am returning to browse these fora today.
So thank you for a beautiful and fascinating forum! Hopefully, if I ask questions later, I will be able to pose them in a reasonably intelligent (read: non-annoying) fashion, and you will be able to review them with a modicum of patience.
Thanks,
otek
Let's get it out there: I am a certified land crab, and most of you have probably forgotten more about ships than I will ever learn. Yet I have a long standing fascination with big ships, particularly tankers.
I was born in Göteborg, Sweden, and one of my earliest memories of childhood is that of my dad taking me down to Eriksberg and watching the construction of the M/S Svealand OBO carrier. I remember my awe and fascination with the sheer size of the steel plates being welded together, and I can still remember the smells and sounds. In my young mind, the ship was a huge, benign leviathan, a sea creature with a heart and a soul.
As I grew older, that image never quite left me, and is probably the reason why now, as a grown man with mostly unrelated pursuits taking up my time, I am returning to browse these fora today.
So thank you for a beautiful and fascinating forum! Hopefully, if I ask questions later, I will be able to pose them in a reasonably intelligent (read: non-annoying) fashion, and you will be able to review them with a modicum of patience.
Thanks,
otek