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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    Trainferries
    Italy-Scilly

    My sister-in-law comes from Messina, her dad used to use that ferry every day to go to work (he's retired now), small world


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Will it fit?

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    will it fcuk! :pac:

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    The luxury cruise ship Pearl NO 7,bumps a bridge in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, May 23, 2012. No injuries were reported, but the deluxe liner lost its chimney which left a mark on Wenzhou Bridge. The cruise was being dragged by four tugboats to a downtown terminal ahead of opening to the public during the National Day holidays in October. The accident is believed to have been caused by miscommunications of the ship's height, Wenzhou City News reported. [Photo/CFP]
    source


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


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    Space Shuttle Enterprise began its journey from JFK International Airport to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    More likely see another oil terminal

    http://cf.gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/distribution_and_Shipping.jpg

    (very large image of Ras Tanura Sea Island Terminal)

    You can feel the heat, smell the inert gas discharging and remember the watches changing from 4on / 8 off to 6on/6off. :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Wow you really get a sense of scale in that photo. :eek:


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    A great video from Maersk in the 60s

    http://vimeo.com/34752776


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Just a bit more and it's ours :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    Tabnabs wrote: »
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    Space Shuttle Enterprise began its journey from JFK International Airport to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

    Looks like she came into contact with a bridge and done some damage !!

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    Img Above taken from NYCAVIATION


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Jambo wrote: »
    Looks like she came into contact with a bridge and done some damage !!

    jesus, they messed that up pretty bad, look at the clearance on the other side! Someone must have been asleep at the wheel to miss that one.


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,317 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Some close maneuvering in Galway harbour yesterday, my friend had just bought his new cruiser a few weeks ago and was feeling a bit butt clenched :D




  • Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    More likely see another oil terminal

    http://cf.gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/distribution_and_Shipping.jpg

    (very large image of Ras Tanura Sea Island Terminal)

    You can feel the heat, smell the inert gas discharging and remember the watches changing from 4on / 8 off to 6on/6off. :(

    Still the best view of Saudi , looks fantastic at night from the shore all lit up


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    A great video on LNG bunkering, a very new ship fuel. Interestingly they say this may not be the best way to do it, as it's still a learnng curve for them.



  • Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    Cool vid I found on Gcaptain last night !



    Hes lucky his quadcopter didnt ditch in the sea!!

    http://gcaptain.com/ship-video-week-quadcopter-gopro/


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    a nice bit of builders promo.
    But why are US ships so small and puny looking compared to European ships of the same design/class?



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,462 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    a nice bit of builders promo.
    But why are US ships so small and puny looking compared to European ships of the same design/class?
    the americans not overbuilding something
    :eek::eek::eek:


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    for ocean going tugs, I think brute force and scale is probably to be advised ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    for ocean going tugs, I think brute force and scale is probably to be advised ;)

    Absolutely right there.
    I would prefer something like this then.

    http://youtu.be/bQXVQlujaDs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Well its a good idea to NOT leave the bridge while the engineers are playing with the engines alone,lol.

    http://youtu.be/nZprXq_osq0


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    An aerial view of a 6,600 teu box boat



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭323


    Absolutely right there.
    I would prefer something like this then.

    http://youtu.be/bQXVQlujaDs

    Spot on. But you will never see anything like either of these coming out of US yards.

    To be fair Bollinger in the promotional video do build tugs/psv's of near these lengths but not bulk, be way too deep to get down the bayau.
    You are probably aware but many over here are surprised that design and build quality in the US is crap, real dark ages stuff, they are still building vessels with 4&6 man cabins and communal toilets and showers etc. Believe its because over there working at sea is still largely viewed on as a job for ex-convicts and drop outs.

    “Follow the trend lines, not the headlines,”



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Their yard work practices leave a lot to be desired too. True dark ages stuff. Treat the workers like crap. No goin home till the job is done type of carry on. Still hand welding major structures too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    323 wrote: »
    Spot on. But you will never see anything like either of these coming out of US yards.

    To be fair Bollinger in the promotional video do build tugs/psv's of near these lengths but not bulk, be way too deep to get down the bayau.
    You are probably aware but many over here are surprised that design and build quality in the US is crap, real dark ages stuff, they are still building vessels with 4&6 man cabins and communal toilets and showers etc. Believe its because over there working at sea is still largely viewed on as a job for ex-convicts and drop outs.

    Thats correct,they are beiing built mainly in my homeland,Norway,and i have seen one US built vessel that was 2 years old,and i thought it was built in the late 80s.Couldnt believe my eyes a 2 year old offshorevessels:eek::eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    Mv Ocean breeze grounded and getting pounded on a Chilean beach

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    Full story here http://gcaptain.com/ocean-breeze-runs-aground-pounded/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Thats a serious wave.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Speaking of waves, Safehaven Marine have been building Workboats, catmarans and Pilot boats for a number of years in Cork. The company owner, Frank, tests the boats himself in the worst conditions the mouth of cork harbour can throw at him.

    Heres what he done on Wednesday, while the rest of us were waiting for a storm as bad as Hurricaine Charlie.



    Visit their youtube page for more similar videos.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Speaking of waves, Safehaven Marine have been building Workboats, catmarans and Pilot boats for a number of years in Cork. The company owner, Frank, tests the boats himself in the worst conditions the mouth of cork harbour can throw at him.

    Heres what he done on Wednesday, while the rest of us were waiting for a storm as bad as Hurricaine Charlie.


    Visit their youtube page for more similar videos.

    Great place to test them, father was a pilot in Cork Harbour back in the sixties, and had a few trips to Milford Haven as the weather was so bad when they got out that he could not get off the Tanker


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Every deck officers worst nightmare :eek:



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    How did that happen?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Bitter end was the last thing leaving the deck. Thats what happens when you try to drop anchor in the middle of the Romanche Trench.


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