Maybe. I’d think there would be some shipyards in the US that could make the necessary repairs and avoid the cost of a very long tow back to Mexico.
There are a few, possibly as close as Mystic Sea Port for repairs that would let the Cuauhtémoc get home at least. But mast repairs can take a lot of time as generally the entire mast needs to be replaced. This would be 3 masts.
I think Bayonne, NJ can do the repairs and there was a place up in Maine that The Clearwater used for hull repairs.
It only needs its engine to get home. Granted, it was probably an engine failure that caused the accident.
That is very true, but at least partial sail capability would be safer. But, I was overthinking it.
Making mast and rigging repairs at sea while motoring to a friendly port would be an interesting training exercise in old school maritime skills. I’m not sure if that would be mentally helpful or not to the crew after losing shipmates.
I’m puzzled about the two who were killed in this. Were they standing on the yards high-up on the masts? If so, how did they not see this coming? Surely they saw the looming danger as it was not an accident that happened in an instant.
Of course, I do not know. Not sure how it happened.
If rigging is falling neither the deck nor aloft is a safe place to be.
It takes a good deal of time to clamber up and man the yards. It also takes a good deal of time to get everyone back down. And as said, when that much rigging and mast comes down, nowhere on deck is safe from falling debris.
When the engine first fails, they’ve got a decision to make: leave the sailors up there and try to rig sail to avoid a collision with [something], or get everyone down ASAP before the ship drifts into [something] and the abrupt stop knocks somebody off a yard.
Depending on where/how the engine quit, They might have had 5 minutes but needed 10.
Some did go into the water… between the collision and going into the water, deaths are not unexpected.
Hornblower could do it.
He’d have to learn how a motor works, first.
So you have the East River, which is an estuary, the North River to the Wes, and the Harlem River, that is a strait?
That’s what Lt Bush is for.
The East river is a strait or tidal estuary.
I believe Spuyten Duyvil Creek also gets involved. An old Dutch name corrupted by the English.
And I loved that clip for Community.
In The Happy Return, Hornblower was denied access to Spanish ports to make needed repairs, so he sailed Lydia to an isolated island and careened her there to make the repairs.
I think that was the one where he delegated to Bush the task of transporting several cannon to high points to defend the ship while repairs were under way.
I cringed this morning while reading this story. Apparently, the reporter from ABC News doesn’t know what a mast is, or needs their hearing checked.
"The captain, who was maneuvering the ship, lost power and mechanical function, and the current “caused the ship to go right into the pillar of the bridge, hitting the mass of the ship where there was a couple of sailors,” NYPD Chief Wilson Aramboles said during a press briefing.
The sailors were injured as a result of the mass striking the bridge, according to Aramboles."
Or is the reporter accurately reporting what NYPD Chief Wilson Aramboles said?
I suppose that’s a possibility as well.
plus, never rule out spell-check/AI deciding it knows best.
The Wiki article on the incident (That was quick) says no one wound up in the water.
She was built in the Celaya shipyard, Bilbao, Spain in 1982 so I imagine the masts and yards are both steel.
A CNN article has a track showing she continued up the river, passing under the Manhattan Bridge before docking at pier 36.