Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[Stick Legs]

That feels tight on a ship with half the beam!

[MBBlat]

hidetheelephants said:

Voldemort said:

Some sort of bun fight/tea and medals after the Falklands? I'd be surprised if there's anywhere with deep enough water upriver of the barrier for it these days, so we're unlikely to see a repeat with HMS Queen Elizabeth.

By the “R” on the flighdeck isn’t that Ark Royal? If so unlikely to be associated with the Falklands.
Some quick googling suggests June 1987.

[CooperD]

A hydrofoil on Lake Como. Only been on a hydrofoil once in my life when I went from Naples to Ischia many years ago. If I recall it was quite noisy and more akin to being on an aeroplane than a ship.

[generationx]

CooperD said:

A hydrofoil on Lake Como. Only been on a hydrofoil once in my life when I went from Naples to Ischia many years ago. If I recall it was quite noisy and more akin to being on an aeroplane than a ship.

I’ve been on that, and it was noisy. Cool though!

[Tony1963]

Drove out to Landguard this afternoon as the rain passed. A little choppy.

[RizzoTheRat]

The US navy used to have a fleet of hydrofoils, the Pegasus class. Quite expensive to run I believe, which was part of the reason for retiring them

[98elise]

MBBlat said:

hidetheelephants said:

Voldemort said:

Some sort of bun fight/tea and medals after the Falklands? I'd be surprised if there's anywhere with deep enough water upriver of the barrier for it these days, so we're unlikely to see a repeat with HMS Queen Elizabeth.

By the “R” on the flighdeck isn’t that Ark Royal? If so unlikely to be associated with the Falklands.
Some quick googling suggests June 1987.

Yes it's Ark Royal. I was on it in 1987

[hidetheelephants]

I wandered into an internet wormhole and found that she moored just upstream of the naval college at Greenwich and that the same moorings were used by HMS Ocean during the olympics. The derelict waterfront, Convoys Wharf, next to the moorings is still derelict 37 years later, because of greedy developers and probably council doing council st.

[spitfire-ian]

Tony1963 said:

Drove out to Landguard this afternoon as the rain passed. A little choppy.

I popped over there a few weeks back

Edited by spitfire-ian on Monday 18th March 12:28

[DJFish]

CooperD said:

A hydrofoil on Lake Como. Only been on a hydrofoil once in my life when I went from Naples to Ischia many years ago. If I recall it was quite noisy and more akin to being on an aeroplane than a ship.

There used to be a service from ostend to ramsgate, I used it once in the early 90s, it was quick but made me feel quite odd and I was a rufty tufty sailor at the time…
https://youtu.be/1VeLinx126k?si=JFxpSrH8oIfejH3k

[CooperD]

A vessel I took on Lake Como used to clean up the water. The rubbish goes up the belt and a crew member rakes it in to a skip. Mainly cleaning up twigs, leaves and plastic bags.

[Voldemort]

I think you've hit the wrong thread Tony. Probably wanted https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Tony1963]

Voldemort said:

I think you've hit the wrong thread Tony. Probably wanted https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Oops! Thank you.

[GliderRider]

DJFish said:

CooperD said:

A hydrofoil on Lake Como. Only been on a hydrofoil once in my life when I went from Naples to Ischia many years ago. If I recall it was quite noisy and more akin to being on an aeroplane than a ship.

There used to be a service from ostend to ramsgate, I used it once in the early 90s, it was quick but made me feel quite odd and I was a rufty tufty sailor at the time…
https://youtu.be/1VeLinx126k?si=JFxpSrH8oIfejH3k

I went on the Boeing Jetfoil from Dover to Ostende as the first leg of an Inter-Rail trip back in 1987. I thought it was very civilised, however the sea was pretty calm that day. I don't recall it being excessively noisy inside though.
On a ferry trip from Piraeus to Aegina back in the early 2000s I was surprised just how many hydrofoils the Greeks used. I got the impression most were Russian-built.

[PushedDover]

Voltaire back to work

[DodgyGeezer]

Not amazing/cool pics - but the boat itself looked pretty cool