I remember seeing your ship at the bridge end of the births.
Your pilot wasn't a short, stocky, bearded guy (Scotsman?) called Jim, who was into black powder shooting, by any chance?
At that time I was working in Owens workshop. We looked after most of the log handling machines (and forklifts) that the company operated in the port.
Owens had the contracts for handling the loading out of logs from all the N.Z. log export ports, exception being The Port of Tauranga, which we had to share with another company. The company is now (if I am up to date) Toll-Owens. The Toll bit being an Australian company.
A miss is a miss. Unlike the Rena.
