Amazingly cool and interesting boat footage

[Condi]

RDMcG said:

Boskalis which can lift 117,000 tons...........even a cruise ship.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2cAs445wU

Does that really count as lifting? It's just using physics. Even you with a bucket could lift the cruise ship like that if you had enough time!

[s2kjock]

Dunbar lifeboat moves to safety of habour

Scary enough until the end when you watch the view as it squeezes into the harbour

I have never been to Dunbar harbour before, but looking at the chart the entrance faces north west, so mostly a following sea on the way in.

Seems like a case of as much power as you dare to maintain steering and hoping for the best.

[Simpo Two]

s2kjock said:

Seems like a case of as much power as you dare to maintain steering and hoping for the best.

Looks like it. Video ended rather abruptly; do you think he clouted the left bank 2 secs later?

So that's what you do when being the Potter Heigham bridge pilot is to slow!

[dhutch]

Jezzerh said:

Lol imagine not quite making the landing and going over the side with that lot strapped to you.

I hope there have been practiced 'get this ruddy sht off quick' exercises in a controlled environment somewhere!

[dhutch]

Taffer said:

That's the MV Suilven - she sailed for over two decades off the west coast of Scotland with Caledonian MacBrayne, then was sold to New Zealand operators, then to Fiji, where she had a sad end to her career:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Suilven

What a cracking bit of boat, proper boat shaped boat, with solid traditional lines and a proper name.

Love it.

[dhutch]

Condi said:

RDMcG said:

Boskalis which can lift 117,000 tons...........even a cruise ship.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2cAs445wU

Does that really count as lifting? It's just using physics. Even you with a bucket could lift the cruise ship like that if you had enough time!

That is fair impressive! Must be a paint to paint the over hanging end of the bulbous bow....

[dhutch]

Simpo Two said:

s2kjock said:

Seems like a case of as much power as you dare to maintain steering and hoping for the best.

Looks like it. Video ended rather abruptly; do you think he clouted the left bank 2 secs later?

Very much a possibility imo!

[FourWheelDrift]

When the owner says he'll park the superyacht

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 2nd December 13:03

[Mrtee]

s2kjock said:

Dunbar lifeboat moves to safety of habour

Scary enough until the end when you watch the view as it squeezes into the harbour

I have never been to Dunbar harbour before, but looking at the chart the entrance faces north west, so mostly a following sea on the way in.

Seems like a case of as much power as you dare to maintain steering and hoping for the best.

The "old" entrance to the East used to be much more exciting!

I believe this is normal practise for Dunbar in bad weather - full throttle and hang on!

It must have been bad for them to move the boat - they lost one a few years back at the Torness pier in similar weather:-

[DeltonaS]

Tour of the Pioneering Spirit:

[MartG]

BBC documentary about Clyde puffers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmm1KzVWNh8

[DeltonaS]

Installation of new jacket lift system consisting of two 170m/5.500 ton beams:

Edited by DeltonaS on Sunday 23 January 17:58

[Baron Greenback]

The ferry at the beginning, I would of been at the front for sure.

[rampante]

here's a cool action movie from a Swedish small-town Poker Run
https://youtu.be/tFmIK3t3dTI

[rampante]

Boating in Karlskrona - several years...

2021


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2020

[DeltonaS]

For those of us with a few quid to spare:

J-Class - Rainbow, build by Holland Jachtbouw

https://www.hoekbrokerage.com/yachts-for-sale/j-cl...

[Baron Greenback]

Need to win lottery, checked under the sofa and still not enough! Remember seeing a hull near Southampton docks many moons ago when I was learning to sale, looked awesome just bare hull.

[Petrus1983]

DeltonaS said:

For those of us with a few quid to spare:

J-Class - Rainbow, build by Holland Jachtbouw

https://www.hoekbrokerage.com/yachts-for-sale/j-cl...

Thanks for posting - really well put together video.

[Baron Greenback]

Sorry a twitter link but crazy low flying of chinook worth putting the sound on,


https://mobile.twitter.com/aviationbrk/status/1521...

[FourWheelDrift]

"Video of Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas crashing into the dock in Falmouth, Jamaica this morning."

https://twitter.com/TheAviationBeat/status/1529986...