{"id":2670,"date":"2010-08-10T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:19:34","slug":"maintaining-ancona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhvferry.com\/blog\/?p=2670","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining Ancona"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/figcaption><\/figure>A whole day in port – time for the crew to take a breather and relax in advance of another packed sailing in the evening?<\/p>\n

Not so for the crew of the Ancona. Even with her imminent retirement, there were lots of routine maintenance tasks to perform during a stopover in the ship’s namesake port in mid-July. I suspect maybe some of the officers were taking it easy, but plenty of the crew were out in the mid-day sun – washing, painting, brushing or testing lifeboats. Here are some pictures of them hard at work – many taken, I must confess, from the comfort of a table in the shade of the canopy at the old Stazione Marittima<\/em>‘s restaurant. <\/p>\n

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Lifeboat drill in the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"No.<\/a>
No. 2 in the water, no 4 coming down. In the background is a fellow former North Sea ship: once of Rederi Ab Svea\/Svenska Lloyd's big rivals, the ex-Tor Dania is now AGEMAR's Filippos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"Splashdown...\"<\/a>
Splashdown...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"A<\/a>
A rusty smear just within stretching distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"Good<\/a>
Good as new. Well, sort of. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Down<\/a>
Down on Promenade Deck, a colleague is wrapped up against the Summer chill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The Ancona and the Hellenic Spirit shining together in the afternoon sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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