Man of Honour
I know that drifting in a confined area gets more points, but that was too optimistic 
The Suez Canal is currently not blocked
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Naa that ship should reverse to get a good run up then go full throttle.
Caporegime
Just give it a good tug.
Soldato
By the looks of things on Vessel finder. They have a few tugs either trying to sort it or keep it in place
Associate
If they give it full beans in reverse and a few blokes jump up and down on the front then it might shift, rally style.
Soldato
This is the reason why most ships no longer have handbrakes.
Gust of wind.... rubbish, it was human error, someone not paying attention and it was too late to correct for it.
Gust of wind.... rubbish, it was human error, someone not paying attention and it was too late to correct for it.
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- Pop in the gpu forum
- Tell them that they need to move the ship or not get new gpus
- Wait
- ?????
- Profit
Man of Honour
Get the word out wider, covering the whole market rather than one shop. Use Facebook or something, maybe get coverage from the BBC.
"If you move the ship you will be allowed the awesome privilege of buying a graphics card for 50% over the manufacturer's recommended price!"
That would get enough people out there to pull the ship straight. They'd pay for the ropes themselves, too.
Probably what the captain was doing...
On another note interestingly the kind of tactics which could proceed armed conflict - jamming up supply/logistic lines before commencement of hostilities.
Man of Honour
The main thing preventing that is that usually both sides would benefit from the canal. So the fighting would usually be to control it rather than to block it (as it was in WW2). Otherwise the easiest way to block the Suez canal would be with bombs. It wouldn't take much explosive, blowing it up anywhere would do the job and defending the entire length of it would be extremely difficult.
Many, many years ago I started writing a short story where this was the case. Only in that instance it was Shayetet 13 using limpets to scuttle large ships in the canal.
I actually wrote a thesis on exactly this, as it's already been done, notably in the Suze Canal in 1956. My late grandfather broke both his legs landing on a vehicle during the assault - he was a paramedic with the British Army. Interesting stuff!
Soldato
Pilots don't manoeuvre or control the ships in anyway other than telling them to speed up or slow down etc... Panama canal is the worst as they expect to be fed, and can order from any restaurant they like at your expense if they don't like the food you are serving.
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I have just noticed that the ship is gender neutral.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56522178
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56522178
Soldato
Stick a sign on it "for sale £20", pretty sure some local specimen will have it away to sell down the scrappy within 30 minutes! 
Soldato
Easily fit in a knackered Transit Pickup 
Soldato
Quarter expert here. Towing is good for pulling something with relatively low resistance to motion and maintaining a course. A tug pulling a barge doesn't require huge amounts of force (relatively speaking), as you just need to slowly get the barge moving then maintain a course. To 'unjam' something like this that is wedged in by the hand of god (0.5*m*v^2 of energy [where m = ****** large] into what looks like a lovely sticky cohesive soil) can't reasonably be done by pulling. The capacity of attachment points and the tug line itself just won't exist. You would probably need a row of attachment points and tugs all pulling at the same time.