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John McPhee wrote 'The Ships of Port Revel' originally for Atlantic Monthly.

Sedately the vessel skids, like a cornering car. This is the Indianapolis 500 in geologic time.
Astonishingly, the model ship Europe develops less than half of one horsepower in order to replicate the real ship's thirty-two thousand.
Real sailors use motorbikes on the decks of such tankers.
A ship is heavier in shallow water and particularly difficult to stop. The virtual mass of the ship increases, because you have to stop not only the ship but also the shallow water you take with you.
(Bjorn Grandin has a boy and a girl, and his family can travel on the Traviata whenever he likes.) {!!}
On a ship - in varying situations having to do with, among with other things, center of gravity, speed, torque, and direction - the swinging place moves. It is known in ship handling as the peripatetic pivot point.
He once worked as a pilot in Algiers, where depths were routinely given in feet and lengths in metres.
A Japanese request that a ship in open waters near a sea buoy put out its gangway so that a pilot could use it to come aboard. This special, and not entirely safe, consideration had to do with the fact that the pilot was more than ninety years old.
In swfit-rising storms ore carries have disappeared in thirty seconds.
On the way to Port Revel in the van this morning, they told stories about dreaming of ships. Andy said he has had a recurrent dream for some years in which he tries to climb a mountain in a ship.

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