Ship porn

Tabnabs

Offshore eye candy

ShevY

Leaving Cobh, heading to Ringaskiddy

cookie.monster

Tabnabs wrote: »

Offshore eye candy

highland knight is the auld fellas vessel

Tabnabs

I've done this job and it's loud, dangerous (the water jet would do you serious damage), wet and dirty. When the cargo is discharged in the hold of a big bulk carrier, it is sometimes necessary to wash everything down so as not to contaminate the next cargo (eg. coal and then iron ore). All of this is done in hot and cold climates while the ship is at sea. Such is the life of Johnny the Sailor!



A fancy filter is used to make the image "arty"...

dball

taken from YLYL

osarusan wrote: »

Rough day to take the Manly Ferry in Sydney.

Tabnabs

All the "petrol heads" over on the motoring forum have nothing on this baby, 85,705 horsepower!!

Tabnabs

A quiet day at the office

Tabnabs

The millionaire in Florida who bought a house with a sea view... :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMRPJ7akbHk

Tabnabs

Maersk ships passing on the high seas.

Tabnabs

A bit of Snow arriving in Rotterdam...

Thargor

HeidiHeidi

I googled the Rena as I'd never heard of it - and here's a very interesting article on the mind-boggling consequences of a grounding like this

http://gcaptain.com/incident-photos-week-rena/

Thargor

It happened 10 years ago in Devon and it was a proper treasure ship that shed its load onto the beach as salvage, barrels of wine, BMW motorbikes, Tractors, Playstations, jewellery etc:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/jan/23/pollution.uknews





Cant believe this was a decade ago now.

roundymac

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I googled the Rena as I'd never heard of it - and here's a very interesting article on the mind-boggling consequences of a grounding like this

http://gcaptain.com/incident-photos-week-rena/

Among the valuable items of cargo being carried were 4000 cases of Sauvingn Blanc for Dunnes Stores. My wife who loves the stuff was inconsolable, luckly we managed to convert her to Pinot Grigio.:D

pajor

I was lucky to be at a lecture given by one of the head salvagers of the MSC Napoli, at the NMCI a few years ago. Was very interesting, especially the entire process of dismantling the ship. Took more than 2 years for the last piece of the ship to be removed from the Channel.

Tabnabs

Norwegian Joy, just launched in Germany, due for completion by June.

dogmatix

Impressive - it's size that is. But so bland and lacking in any charisma or charm. It could be one of a 100 similar looking cruise liners in the world today. I'm tempted to post some more pics from the golden age of ocean liners if I could get my blasted upload feature to work on my PC...

Tabnabs

It's all about squeezing the most profit out of the limited time she is attractive to the market though, function over form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caw8APPFmzQ

The next generation are equally unappealing



The old days just aren't coming back


(France, Mauretania and Queen Elizabeth in New York early '60s)

Thargor

I always wonder about the modern cruise ships identical design aswell, can they not even stick a figurehead on the prow or a unique artwork or something to stand out? I suppose the way the industry is booming they just dont care.

HeidiHeidi

Well, look what we passed by when leaving Cartagena harbour last weekend!

They must have stumped up for their outstanding bills and got her sprung

(It's even uglier in real life, in a so-bad-it's-almost-good way - I think the dawn light may have helped that impression though!)

HeidiHeidi

Very odd hull profile

(apologies, wouldn't let me add a picture to the last post!)

HeidiHeidi

Ah, feck's sake, the pics were there about five minutes ago.... where are they gone?

ETA - they're still there when I checked on the touch site on the mobile.... but not on the full site on the laptop (where I uploaded them)..... I'm confused Ted

Thargor

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Ah, feck's sake, the pics were there about five minutes ago.... where are they gone?

ETA - they're still there when I checked on the touch site on the mobile.... but not on the full site on the laptop (where I uploaded them)..... I'm confused Ted

You're trying to link to pictures in a Gmail account, only the person with access to that account will see them. If you want to share the pics you can attach them to a pose with the paperclip icon in the Post Reply window or else stick them on Imgur and post those links in IMG tags.

Tabnabs

Clewing up the main in increasing winds, deep in the South Atlantic.

HeidiHeidi

OK.... take 2......



ETA - bah, still doesn't work, and that's a link from Imgur.

And even I can't see the pictures I tried to post above, and it's my gmail account?

I give up! (again!!!)

Can't see a paperclip icon anywhere in the Post Reply box......

Sorry for derailing They were nice pics, honest.......

flyingsnail

If you click "go advanced" then the paperclip icon is 5th on the top line

HeidiHeidi

Take 3..... (if this doesn't work I'll delete it!)


Well, look what we passed by when leaving Cartagena harbour last weekend!

They must have stumped up for their outstanding bills and got her sprung

(It's even uglier in real life, in a so-bad-it's-almost-good way - I think the dawn light may have helped that impression though!)

a2.jpg


Very odd hull profile
A 1.jpg

HeidiHeidi

flyingsnail wrote: »

If you click "go advanced" then the paperclip icon is 5th on the top line

Cheers!

Next week I'll learn how to embed..... :rolleyes:

Shannon757

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Cheers!

Next week I'll learn how to embed..... :rolleyes:

Conchir

Here's Abitibi, launched in 1938 as a tug.



Still going today, after some extensive refits (and possibly a hull lengthening? I can't really tell), as a dinner cruise boat in Vancouver.


Sunset Cruise by Duncan Rawlinson - Duncan.co - @thelastminute, on Flickr

I used to see it every day at work, I always thought it had so much potential to be a very good looking ship, if not for the ugly windows and decks thrown onto it at some stage.