Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[PushedDover]

Also some amazing images kicking around / in articles of the Brent Alpha collection yesterday by the Pioneering Spirit -





17,000Te lifted in 9 seconds


https://allseas.com/project/brent-alpha/

[hidetheelephants]

Are they removing all of the jacket or just snipping it at a suitable depth? It's a lentilist's dilemma; let the evil capitalists save money but keep the fish habitat, or force them to remove it at great cost but make Nemo homeless.

[PushedDover]

hidetheelephants said:

Are they removing all of the jacket or just snipping it at a suitable depth? It's a lentilist's dilemma; let the evil capitalists save money but keep the fish habitat, or force them to remove it at great cost but make Nemo homeless.

Shell says in this document



TL:DR, fill ya boots and report back

[MartG]

PushedDover said:

Shell says in this document



TL:DR, fill ya boots and report back

Cut at 84.5m down and remove, leaving the footings below that in place

[RizzoTheRat]

DeltonaS said:

Sister ship The Vanguard is more impressive, can carry more than twice as much load and is currently the worlds largest of it's kind:

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

I noticed the collection of ships moored of the coast here had gained another heavy lift the other day, looked on Marine Traffic and it's the BOKA Vanguard. That is a big ship! 70 x 275m deck and able to lift 110,000 tonnes!

Pic from Wikipedia

[MartG]

Sack the navigator !

[FourWheelDrift]

It's the remains (conning tower) of K-19 purchased and set up as a memorial.

[Shinysideup]

FourWheelDrift said:

It's the remains (conning tower) of K-19 purchased and set up as a memorial.

Jeez, just read the history and that thing was cursed. So many deaths from build to operations

[PushedDover]

PushedDover said:

Also some amazing images kicking around / in articles of the Brent Alpha collection yesterday by the Pioneering Spirit -





17,000Te lifted in 9 seconds


https://allseas.com/project/brent-alpha/

Adding - a Great video,

https://youtu.be/D5xXmEHPFp8

and whilst not viewable in the iPhone pic- the platform is clearly visible with the naked eye from the edge of the Yorkshire moors (this morning)

[PushedDover]

[Silver Smudger]

PushedDover said:

[PushedDover]

Just needs a little Lube

[CharlieAlphaMike]

I took this picture a few months ago but forgot about it The Zhen Hua 33 was bringing a new bridge into Stockholm. The bridge was about to be floated into position by 'sinking' the ship. It's a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel. Quite amazing.

[CharlieAlphaMike]

Came across this recently whilst out on my Paddle Board. Perhaps not the most impressive ship but quite a sight when it's coming towards you and impressive to see it go through such a narrow channel and with hardly any wake

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[CharlieAlphaMike]

Please excuse the poor quality image. Trying to photograph a dark (blue) yacht, with a huge building casting a shadow over it, an overcast sky, on a mobile phone and from a difficult angle wasn't easy

This is Mariette:

[J3JCV]

Excuse the bad quality phone pics, but this is Mariette sailing back in our 2020 Regatta (Pendennis Cup), "thundering along" is the most apt idiom for her - you can sense the immense power 200' away and its mind blowing on board.

[XJSJohn]

J3JCV said:

fantastic shot, thats about as fast as she will go looking at the displacement curve of the wake, leaves the bow and comes back up right on the transom .... going to be some load on them running backstays too!!!!

[PushedDover]

a few things to co-ordinate:

[Hard-Drive]

Not as amazing or cool as most of the photos on this thread, however I took these last week when sailing on the South Coast. Three cruise liners anchored in Christchurch Bay, and eight in Weymouth Bay, including the three Cunard Queens. As a yottie, it was very strange and a bit unsettling to be able to pass so close to them, they are truly enormous.

The Cunard boats were anchored really close to shore...I have no idea in what state of readiness they are left, or how long it would take to spin the engines up, however if they had dragged the anchor they would have had very little time. Interestingly when it really blew last Wednesday night, it looks like they had raised their anchors and were just trundling slowly round the bay. We left Weymouth at dawn on Thursday morning, QV & QE were just heading back into the bay to drop anchor again, and QM2 was out near Portland...it almost looked like she was having a nose around the Portland Race for sts and giggles.

[paulguitar]

Hard-Drive said:

Not as amazing or cool as most of the photos on this thread, however I took these last week when sailing on the South Coast. Three cruise liners anchored in Christchurch Bay, and eight in Weymouth Bay, including the three Cunard Queens. As a yottie, it was very strange and a bit unsettling to be able to pass so close to them, they are truly enormous.

The Cunard boats were anchored really close to shore...I have no idea in what state of readiness they are left, or how long it would take to spin the engines up, however if they had dragged the anchor they would have had very little time. Interestingly when it really blew last Wednesday night, it looks like they had raised their anchors and were just trundling slowly round the bay. We left Weymouth at dawn on Thursday morning, QV & QE were just heading back into the bay to drop anchor again, and QM2 was out near Portland...it almost looked like she was having a nose around the Portland Race for sts and giggles.

Anthem of the Seas was my last ship, I disembarked in Bayonne and flew home from Newark when all of this kicked off. It gave me the shivers a bit seeing your photos.