Hi Matt.
Look at the date against them. (Pioneer=12th June 2010, Marbella Delight=26th June 2010). You'll have to wait a little while, yet.
PS In case anyone thinks that the Elbe dynamics weren't realistic, you'd have to argue with the man in charge of it in real life, Roger van der Kraan (Zeesleper Elbe).
The update was programmed by me at Roger's request. He told me:
The bow thruster is built in because we want to make trips with passengers in the Rotterdam port area, so we can manouevre the ship easily. No more long tows around the world, onfortunately. Nevertheless we want to make trips to England, Germany and French coast. And ofcourse an trip to the Azores where the ship was stationned many years.
Roger also very kindly supplied me photographs taken during the installation, the specifications of the thruster unit and its anticipated performance. Following the release, amongst several conversations I had with Roger, he said:
We've sailed a lot of missions with our renewed Elbe and it's bow-thruster this week. It works perfectly well.
Many thanks for this effort!
Kind regards,
Roger van der Kraan
Zeesleper Elbe
PS I've attached one of the photographs for you.
