captainalex
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combined power is somewhere around 40,000hp i think.
http://www.blohmvoss-repair.com/presse.php?page_id=PT-214
http://www.blohmvoss-repair.com/presse.php?page_id=PT-214
282ft, 45knots and a 10m rooster tail!!
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ecstasea and wade
a poster hereabouts uses the handle "wade" wonder if related?
I understand from the grapevine that ectesea did have problems using (existing) monster power frtrom time to time. Not sure what, though.
a poster hereabouts uses the handle "wade" wonder if related?
I understand from the grapevine that ectesea did have problems using (existing) monster power frtrom time to time. Not sure what, though.
squidge
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Re: ecstasea and wade
Looks like the one i saw in flushing last year.
Looks like the one i saw in flushing last year.
captainalex
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Re: ecstasea and wade
Ecstasea has a huge gas turbine, about 2.5-3m diameter and then must have two shafts. Obviously the majority of power will go through the turbine once out at sea but in port would have to run through the shafts. Maybe 40,000hp through two shafts is just too much.
Ecstasea has a huge gas turbine, about 2.5-3m diameter and then must have two shafts. Obviously the majority of power will go through the turbine once out at sea but in port would have to run through the shafts. Maybe 40,000hp through two shafts is just too much.
pvb
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Re: ecstasea and wade
afaik, the turbine is a separate unit, and i think there were problems with the amount of heat it generated when they tried it in August. I don't think they "engage monster turbine" as soon as they feel like it (esp with the fuel it uses) - mostly it's pootled about on the diesels.
afaik, the turbine is a separate unit, and i think there were problems with the amount of heat it generated when they tried it in August. I don't think they "engage monster turbine" as soon as they feel like it (esp with the fuel it uses) - mostly it's pootled about on the diesels.
captainalex
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Re: ecstasea and wade
Certainly something to steer clear of when the turbine is functioning. That must suck a fair few things up .But whilst in the rodriguez yard at Golfe Juan i knoticed the jet intakes for the mangustas were not protected, therefore leaving them free to suck up debris. Surely that could do some damage to the props?.
Certainly something to steer clear of when the turbine is functioning. That must suck a fair few things up .But whilst in the rodriguez yard at Golfe Juan i knoticed the jet intakes for the mangustas were not protected, therefore leaving them free to suck up debris. Surely that could do some damage to the props?.
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Re: ecstasea and wade
erm, i am into speculation here, but do the big 108's use props? I think it's waterjets cos the props couldn't gettem to 60 knots - isn't it waterjets.
Air intakewise, the gas turbine blades inside thhe quite small turbine engine are hugely strong, and air wd only need to be filtered against birds and sticks so praps they have slight filters further down the line.
However...i dunno how ectasea is actually powered - there's a big fan thing halfway in the water at the stern. It can't be a semi-submerged jet engine.
erm, i am into speculation here, but do the big 108's use props? I think it's waterjets cos the props couldn't gettem to 60 knots - isn't it waterjets.
Air intakewise, the gas turbine blades inside thhe quite small turbine engine are hugely strong, and air wd only need to be filtered against birds and sticks so praps they have slight filters further down the line.
However...i dunno how ectasea is actually powered - there's a big fan thing halfway in the water at the stern. It can't be a semi-submerged jet engine.
captainalex
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Re: ecstasea and wade
It was on a 105, i've got some really close up shots of the intake and prop. Also got really close up shots of ecstaseas gas turbine and it does look like a semi-submerged jet engine with 50 heavy duty bolts, bolting it to the stern.
It was on a 105, i've got some really close up shots of the intake and prop. Also got really close up shots of ecstaseas gas turbine and it does look like a semi-submerged jet engine with 50 heavy duty bolts, bolting it to the stern.
Nick_H
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Re: ecstasea and wade
Ecstasea was delivered in 2004 and its just gone in for modernisation works!! Either the old interior designer was living in the past or the owner is bloody fussy.
Ecstasea was delivered in 2004 and its just gone in for modernisation works!! Either the old interior designer was living in the past or the owner is bloody fussy.
jfm
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This repair job is kinda old news Alex. The boat is Abramovich's, it's a Feadship, the only one of his 4 mega boats that he commissioned from himself (as opposed to diving in and nicking someone else's near-finished project, ie Pelorus, or buying secondhand, ie LGB and Sussuro). All that work last winter was officially to do things with the accommodation but was-according to street info- to fix turbine problems. She was back in commission early summer and was in IYC Antibes pretty much all summer, mostly nailed to the dock but occasionally out and about. By general observation he seems to use Pelorus much more than Ecstasea
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ther remained some story about the turbine being unuseable - water gets hurled up all over the boat at 35+ knots, surprise surprise....
captainalex
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The pershing 115 nearly had the same problem. When travelling at 15knots the wake is so turbulent that if the boat lost its engines it would be engulfed by its own wake.
Oldhand
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Cheaper to ride on large Incat wave piercing ferry, they can achieve similar speeds with twin rooster tails and the biggest has similar HP.