Amazingly cool and interesting boat footage

Amazingly cool and interesting boat footage

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Foppo

2,344 posts

130 months

Tuesday 18th March 2014
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chilistrucker said:
jeez, i think i'd honestly cack my pants.
think the worst i was ever in was a force 10, but that was on a bloody big ferry on route from portsmouth to bilbao. i was ok, but wouldn't have fancied it much stormier.
we used that boat alot with the lorries, so i got to know some of the crew. 1 of the barman was reassuring me by saying the only time you need to be concerned is when the crew start putting their life jackets on smile
made sense i guess.
i asked if he had ever had to do it, and he said just once, on a new years eve cruise.
Fair weather small trawlers can take the the short waves keep the bow into it.

Ari

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19,511 posts

221 months

Tuesday 25th March 2014
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Fishtigua said:
Alex Thomson walks up the mast of Hugo Boss.

Makes a nice change from doing the keel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4loB_UGxw8
Trying to work out how he's secured on. He must be, because when the boat comes upright he's hanging on something, but I can't see anything as he runs up the mast.

Bloody impressive either way, that's a big mast!

willfinch36

601 posts

164 months

Tuesday 25th March 2014
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Ari said:
Fishtigua said:
Alex Thomson walks up the mast of Hugo Boss.

Makes a nice change from doing the keel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4loB_UGxw8
Trying to work out how he's secured on. He must be, because when the boat comes upright he's hanging on something, but I can't see anything as he runs up the mast.

Bloody impressive either way, that's a big mast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fm0dUEsR9U

Ari

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19,511 posts

221 months

Saturday 29th March 2014
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They claim in that video that he jammed himself between the mast and sail. Not actually possible.

There is also a very brief shot as he runs up the mast where you can see what looks like a harness D ring thing attached to him

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Monday 31st March 2014
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Flipping an Elling 360 deg. Great little boats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3OeuJ8gzWA

markmullen

15,877 posts

240 months

Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Fishtigua said:
Flipping an Elling 360 deg. Great little boats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3OeuJ8gzWA
Pretty impressive, looks a sturdy little thing, I like!

Mashedpotatoes

1,344 posts

154 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Blown flat boats sound great especially at 4:20
http://youtu.be/b4hAe0g5tHw

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Mashedpotatoes said:
Blown flat boats sound great especially at 4:20
http://youtu.be/b4hAe0g5tHw
Got a pair of Kiekhaefer Big Block V8s in the workshop from the '60s. Carl Kiekhaefer was the founder of Mercruiser/Mercury engines and raced in the original Donzi Offshore.

I think there are only about a dozen original motors left, the last parts were bought from a boatshed in Iraq. If anyone knows of some spares, let me know.

The sound is quite outstanding, open pipes just howling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Kiekhaefer

Mashedpotatoes

1,344 posts

154 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Fishtigua said:
Mashedpotatoes said:
Blown flat boats sound great especially at 4:20
http://youtu.be/b4hAe0g5tHw
Got a pair of Kiekhaefer Big Block V8s in the workshop from the '60s. Carl Kiekhaefer was the founder of Mercruiser/Mercury engines and raced in the original Donzi Offshore.

I think there are only about a dozen original motors left, the last parts were bought from a boatshed in Iraq. If anyone knows of some spares, let me know.

The sound is quite outstanding, open pipes just howling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Kiekhaefer
From that article

In 1927 he briefly worked as a draftsman by Evinrude Motors before being fired for "...frequent, disquieting and brazenly insubordinate arguments concerning design and product development...".[1]

I like him.

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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The 2014 St. Barts Bucket from a quadcopter.

http://vimeo.com/92445173

Mashedpotatoes

1,344 posts

154 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Fishtigua said:
The 2014 St. Barts Bucket from a quadcopter.

http://vimeo.com/92445173
That should be watched right to the very end wink

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Tuesday 27th May 2014
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Ari

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19,511 posts

221 months

Monday 2nd June 2014
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Superb! thumbup

J3JCV

1,257 posts

161 months

Wednesday 6th August 2014
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This is the video of the 2014 Pendennis Cup, a little regatta we put on every couple of years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKVd4F6cRYw

Superyachts racing in the bay of Falmouth.

Its the best fun we have at work really!

Ari

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19,511 posts

221 months

Thursday 14th August 2014
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Enjoyed that! Great video - fantastic yachts! thumbup

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Saturday 30th August 2014
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Sadly Mike Fiore, a chap I used read about as a lad, has crashed his Outerlimits Cat at speed. A sad loss of a fine and humorous Bloke's bloke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubukX0ZgtI

J3JCV

1,257 posts

161 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZeUGDb-uc

Saw this on Yacht Forums, I think its quite a good video as it certainly made me smile.

gwm

2,390 posts

150 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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J3JCV said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZeUGDb-uc

Saw this on Yacht Forums, I think its quite a good video as it certainly made me smile.
Wonder what the yacht owners think of it? Dirty deck hand feet on all your stuff

Abbott

2,611 posts

209 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Great thread

Silent1

19,761 posts

241 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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gwm said:
J3JCV said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZeUGDb-uc

Saw this on Yacht Forums, I think its quite a good video as it certainly made me smile.
Wonder what the yacht owners think of it? Dirty deck hand feet on all your stuff
looking at the other version of the video it's some sort of thankyou to a bloke called Jack, who i presume is Jack Cowin the owner.