When I get my first supertanker...

[failmaster]

When I get my first supertanker, I'm going to register it with the Mongolia Ship Registry.

Now, aside from the unlikelihood of me ever owning any ocean-going vessel, can anyone else spot what's wrong with the above statement?

Comments

[failmaster]

Correct!

Although amusingly their marketing brochure starts off by describing the majesty of the vast rolling steppes and the Gobi desert... Their marketing department clearly did a lot of research on how to impress salty sea-dogs!

That said, it then goes on to state how the registry was set up as part of a programme of improvements to the Mongolian economy, which may convey the message to the owner of the MV Rusting Deathtrap that this might conceivably be a Flag of Convenience provider they can work with... although I think their hope that it will "connect Mongolia into the global
maritime transportation network" is still a little optimistic!

[uitlander]

The clue is in the name :-)

[failmaster]

Indeed. It's either them or El Registro Internacional Boliviano de Buques! :)

[failmaster]

MSRA, surely?

[failmaster]

Ah, you see the problem with Switzerland and Austria is that they are closed National registries, so not being a citizen I wouldn't be able to register my free-booting rust-bucket with them.

As far as I can tell, Liechtenstein is a 'Quasi-flag-of-convenience' which means that I'd at least have to establish a holding company based there with links back to the genuine owner (ie, me!) so they could prosecute for all the safety regulation breaches, crew training inadequacies, pollution incidents, collisions, and general human rights abuses that my rusting tuppence-ha'penny tub would be responsible for. That doesn't sound appealing at all!

[moreteadk]

fæadskjlkjæladfsfkjæaljæadfklskjadfsæl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU MADE A POST!

*dies of shock*

[failmaster]

Yeah, make the most of it - it won't happen again for _aaages_! :p

Gosh, I'm such an antisocial misanthrope these days... ;)

How are you, anyway?

[moreteadk]

Stressed and more than likely on the verge of a cold, so I think the best answer would be 'fairly whiny'. :) But I'm always borderline whiny, so...

Obsessing about Steepster and various facebook games, trying to write stuff (with semi-limited success) and reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (I think), which is very good but long.

Also less than a minute away from yummy raspberry oolong.

[seawooddesigns]

lol. Glyn, can you do it again in about, oooh, nine weeks or so? The shock might be enough to start off labour if I haven't popped by then. ;)

The letter 'n'?

[albatros]

Is it more usual to use adjective rather than noun when a country is in the name?

I've seen both. Noun seems the older form.