Ship porn

Ghost Train

two months work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QirVr-pEVU4

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151113-this-is-why-people-cut-cruise-ships-in-half

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Tabnabs wrote: »

High and dry

that s awesome!!!

Tabnabs

taken earlier in the week

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Don't drink and drive!

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Winter is coming...

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Shipping can be a dirty old business, coal and iron ore cargoes in Rotterdam.

Tabnabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6GfUvWESUQ

Keep watching, you know what's coming! :pac:

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View from the office window

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Finally, some truth around here!

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Waiting for the day shift to start on the rig.

cookie.monster

Tabnabs wrote: »

Waiting for the day shift to start on the rig.

tabnabs do you work for gulfmark offshore??

Tabnabs

Never worked for Gulf, thankfully.

Tabnabs

A bit of classic porn with this one.

The ocean going Tug 'Elbe', built in the Netherlands in 1959 and used as a tug until 1976 when she sailed to Cobh to be converted to a pilot-vessel by Verolme United Shipyards. She then worked in the States for 8 years before being sold to Greenpeace. Sacrificed for the "greater good" by Greenpeace, she was damaged and seized by the French in the Mururoa atoll.

After 6 months, the French donated her to the Harbour Museum in Rotterdam (NLD) for preservation restored to her original state and after a long a difficult process, she is now back to her former glory. And what a pretty thing she is, all curves, open lifeboats, HF antenna in the masts and a bridge that would terrify any young deck officer with the lack of electronic equipment!

Cookie_Monster

that is one classically nice looking ship!

elastico

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

that is one classically nice looking ship!

Pathetic how our equivalent looks, that being the Naomh Eanna.

Tabnabs

Ditch-crawling up off the Great Lakes. No room for error here!

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https://www.facebook.com/TheSkipperOnline/videos/999676516772061/

Facebook video.

Iceland, the one place you'd be a bloody fool to go to sea!

Wanderer78

Tabnabs wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/TheSkipperOnline/videos/999676516772061/

Facebook video.

Iceland, the one place you'd be a bloody fool to go to sea!

wow, thats scary! any idea what force wind that was?

HeidiHeidi

Tabnabs wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/TheSkipperOnline/videos/999676516772061/

Facebook video.

Iceland, the one place you'd be a bloody fool to go to sea!

:eek:

The sound on that video made my hair stand on end!

:eek:

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Pilots? Astronauts? Seafarers!

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Two tough ice queens operating on the roof of the world.


CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent (left) and USCGC Healy on a joint icebreaking mission.

Thargor

Great pics last few days Tabnabs.

Tabnabs

Like a child leading a giant home

cruizer101

Would the way she is being pulled not cause her to hit the left wall, or are there some other forces at play here.

Also stacks of ships on a ship:


There is part of me wonders is the above photoshoped but then again it does carry loads like this, US Missile Defence Radar:

Tabnabs

cruizer101 wrote: »

Would the way she is being pulled not cause her to hit the left wall, or are there some other forces at play here.

If you look at the Ocean Cygnus' deck at the centre right of the photo, you can see some crew gathered and looking over the side. I'd imagine things are getting tight there and the tug is trying to inch her away from that side. In reality the tug probably weaves back and forth quite a bit to keep the bow away from the walls.

cruizer101 wrote: »

There is part of me wonders is the above photoshoped

Nope, that's for real (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158305/Thats-load-ships-The-carrier-boat-hold-22-barges--oil-rig--back.html). Dockwise have some interesting ships and probably the most unusual cargoes on the high seas.

Tabnabs

The smell of a wooden ship, the noise of the creaking rigging, the sight of all sails aloft; the humble diesel engine changed that forever (well almost)

Tabnabs

From the sandy desert to the salty brine

Yawlboy

Zumwalt starts seatrials

Cookie_Monster

Yawlboy wrote: »

Zumwalt starts seatrials

she'll never pass, no safety railings!! :eek:

Thargor

Thats what I was thinking... They'll have to put something there wont they?