Boka Vanguard, Cornwall

[Getragdogleg]

The heavy lifting vessel the Boka Vanguard is currently at anchor in Mounts bay.

Some drone footage has been uploaded on youtube and its rather good.

Anyone know what she is up to ? is she waiting for something in Falmouth ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKZSYCUZ7OA

[paintman]

According to AIS she's going to Falmouth.

[Getragdogleg]

It has been here around a month and then went off into the channel a couple of days ago and then came back.

Love to know what she is waiting for, try and get up to Falmouth to have a look at the loading of it.

[Taffer]

https://youtu.be/sd7vhn20YQo

She's off across the Atlantic to the Bahamas to be used as a floating dock for the Carnival Vista.

[Butter Face]

Taffer said:

https://youtu.be/sd7vhn20YQo

She's off across the Atlantic to the Bahamas to be used as a floating dock for the Carnival Vista.

That's fking awesome ain't it.

[Getragdogleg]

Yeah, I really miss it, from my house in the evening just before it got dark it looked like a silhouette of the Manhattan skyline, huge thing and really cool engineering.

[CAPP0]

That's very very clever. Well, it's not, it's basic physics, but very cleverly applied!

What happened to the Vista?

[Taffer]

CAPP0 said:

That's very very clever. Well, it's not, it's basic physics, but very cleverly applied!

What happened to the Vista?

Just a regular docking/inspection/overhaul period I guess - with the increase in cruise ship numbers, capacity at some docks must be stretched, so this allows a bit more space in the yard.

There was a crane collapse at the Grand Bahamas dockyard earlier this year, so not sure if that has impacted on the yard's capacity either.

[nice1two]

Having a repair to her Azipods. Seems to be an ongoing issue

[Krikkit]

nice1two said:

Having a repair to her Azipods. Seems to be an ongoing issue

Bearing issue apparently, costly stuff to put it into dry dock for a few weeks to get it sorted!

https://www.hydro-international.com/content/news/b...

[DavieBNL]

...what they need is a Heavy Lifting Vessel....

[Hard-Drive]

Presumably the anchor hawse pipe is actually underwater somewhere??

[Taffer]

Hard-Drive said:

Presumably the anchor hawse pipe is actually underwater somewhere??

Yep - you can see it in this photo when she was in drydock:

[The3rdDukeofB]

Loads of info and great images on my Linkedin feed

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activi...


“
We finally made to lift the Vista out of the water 🌊 Operations started this morning at 4 a.m. when we manage to leave the dock in Freeport. We sailed the Vista off the harbor and we approached the Boka Vanguard at dawn. ☀️ Boka was already submerged for approx 30 mt below the sea level. We made fast few tug boats which helped us in steadying the ship’s head and sowly, using our own propulsion, we gently slipped onto the vessel, in between of her quarter decks. Once in position, Boka started deballasting her tanks and we finally laid on the timber planks, eventually getting out of the water. Next step will see the complex of the two ships (BOKA+Vista ) moving slowly back into the harbor where we will dock and we’ll start our repair operations.⚙️🔨 This is a great achievement, both for us and for Boka team, since this is the longest ship
Ever lifted we had to Work out a lot in preparing everything in just few weeks 🏆“

Edited by The3rdDukeofB on Sunday 14th July 22:01

[Turn7]

Butter Face said:

Taffer said:

https://youtu.be/sd7vhn20YQo

She's off across the Atlantic to the Bahamas to be used as a floating dock for the Carnival Vista.

That's fking awesome ain't it.

Yeah, love that stuff!

[Hard-Drive]

So what's wrong with the Vista then?

[Getragdogleg]

Hard-Drive said:

So what's wrong with the Vista then?

Someone above speculated that it was bearings in the Azipods.

Sounds like a decent reason to go to the expense of getting her lifted.