Ship porn

Cookie_Monster · 22-11-2013 8:37am

Rig support vessel in Port Taranaki

Tabnabs · 07-01-2014 5:24pm

Oh for a life on the rolling seas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9FmEq5D6A

Another link to video

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e56_1389058712

Cookie_Monster · 07-01-2014 7:31pm

NZ's new life vest ad

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

Johnny_Fontane · 10-01-2014 10:06am

goldie fish · 10-01-2014 1:00pm

Completely sold out it seems.

Tabnabs · 10-01-2014 3:14pm

Pfft, you call that a lego ship

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?58357-LEGO-Aircraft-Carrier :eek:

goldie fish · 10-01-2014 10:17pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

Pfft, you call that a lego ship

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?58357-LEGO-Aircraft-Carrier :eek:

You can buy the Maersk as a kit. Can you by the carrier as one?

knucklehead6 · 10-01-2014 10:22pm

goldie fish wrote: »

You can buy the Maersk as a kit. Can you by the carrier as one?

If still prefer the carrier!!

Tabnabs · 10-01-2014 10:51pm

goldie fish wrote: »

You can buy the Maersk as a kit. Can you by the carrier as one?

By the looks of it, the carrier would be easier to buy at the moment

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme

Tabnabs · 10-01-2014 11:02pm

Enough of the toys? more of the real thing maybe

showphoto.aspx?photoid=90423

tricky D · 10-01-2014 11:05pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

Oh for a life on the rolling seas..

Indeed: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8dd_1305213553

Tabnabs · 10-01-2014 11:12pm

Actually, salvage tugs are an interesting pastime, I used to see the Dutch ship Waker regularly, it was all standby until the stuff hit the fan and then action stations... All or nothing on those ships

long range shooter · 11-01-2014 11:03am

Tabnabs wrote: »

Enough of the toys? more of the real thing maybe

Wow,7 deck guys to connct a line:eek:

Tabnabs · 11-01-2014 11:12am

You must have hundreds of photos LRS? How about putting the best ones up?

Tabnabs · 13-01-2014 5:29pm

Winter, North Atlantic

Great Lakes and ocean gearless bulk carrier was built as hull # 256 by Govan Shipbuilders Ltd., Govan, Scotland

The plan was to operate these vessels on Great Lakes trades during the navigation season, then ocean trades during the winter months.

The storm pictures below were taken during a North Atlantic storm February, 13, 1987 on an eastbound passage from Tampa, Florida to Ghent, Belgium with a load of phosphates. The pictures were taken by Capt. George Ianiev, who was the ship's Second Mate at the time. The big blue wave was the largest wave the ship encountered during the storm; seeing it hit the ship made the vessel's master question whether they would survive the storm.

http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/spruceglen.htm

Tabnabs · 15-01-2014 1:43pm

For all your budding navigators out there, a simple illustration that shows how awkward naval ships are when it comes to nav lights

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Imagine no silhouette of the ship, you'd spend a fair while wondering what's going on there....

HeidiHeidi · 15-01-2014 2:03pm

Very timely - I'm doing my colregs exam tonight

(for the second time, so thankfully I don't have to pass it - although I'd like to obviously)

Just to add, in my experience, any lights at all are a bit of a nightmare - unless it's the two whites of a vessel >50m at quite a distance, I don't think I've EVER seen a set of lights that only include those required for navigation!

I've also done a 10-hour overnight race in sight of another (sail) boat which proudly displayed his anchor light - and only his anchor light - the whole night long. What you see is not always what you get at night at sea

Tabnabs wrote: »

For all your budding navigators out there, a simple illustration that shows how awkward naval ships are when it comes to nav lights

Imagine no silhouette of the ship, you'd spend a fair while wondering what's going on there....

murphym7 · 15-01-2014 5:38pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Very timely - I'm doing my colregs exam tonight (for the second time, so thankfully I don't have to pass it - although I'd like to obviously)

Just to add, in my experience, any lights at all are a bit of a nightmare - unless it's the two whites of a vessel >50m at quite a distance, I don't think I've EVER seen a set of lights that only include those required for navigation!

I've also done a 10-hour overnight race in sight of another (sail) boat which proudly displayed his anchor light - and only his anchor light - the whole night long. What you see is not always what you get at night at sea

Nav lights are grand when you are steaming, you can see them pretty OK and with the radar you have a good idea what’s going on, size of radar contact, speed etc…..

What used to kill me was going in and out of port at night. You get the ambient lights from Shore, loads of ships and other craft, navigational buoys, land side navigational lights…..Jesus at the beginning I used to be very freaked out indeed, especially if the channel in questions wasn’t a straight run in and bended back and forth. You would be running back and forth to the chart table to find your next buoy, counting the flashes, confusing one for another. Stress.

goldie fish · 15-01-2014 8:37pm

I remember my first trip, on watch with other cadets, testing each others knowledge of lights at night based on passing vessels (in the Irish Sea, as it happens).
Spotted a contact on radar, easily picked it out on the horizon, due to the amount of light it was putting out. "The Ferry to the UK" we all decided. Nothing else could give off that much light.

Nope.

When it got closer(much closer) we realised our dramatic error, finding it to be just a trawler, working nets.

long range shooter · 21-01-2014 2:35pm

Amazing discharging of timber in Canada.

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

Tabnabs · 21-01-2014 2:54pm

24 hours in Liverpool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDPJz67xaY

Tabnabs · 23-01-2014 3:10pm

That would make me nervous, on so many different levels...

Cedrus · 23-01-2014 9:05pm

"Protect the environment - No smoking"
As in, Blazing Oil Tankers are bad for the environment? Or the publicity that it generates.
Guns and oil are cool though?

Tabnabs · 24-01-2014 10:23am

Cedrus wrote: »

"Protect the environment - No smoking"
As in, Blazing Oil Tankers are bad for the environment? Or the publicity that it generates.
Guns and oil are cool though?

Yeah.... no. More like tankers and little sparks of flame. Sod the environment, I'd be more concerned about "big ship go bang". Unless of course, those weapons are intrinsically safe? :pac: