KellysEye
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You will see both mega sail and motor yachts going through that entrance with inches to spare each side every day during the sailing season, it's nothing special.
Close shave for Steve Jobs' Superyacht
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claymore
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That was what I said in the original post. At Least the Hull-Zeebrugge ships have added interest with the Humber rattling past at 90 degrees.
Sybarite
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westhinder
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Yup.
Those bargemen know how to handle their boats. No bowthruster, mind you.
When I was 17 I had to opportunity to go along on a barge from Ghent to Paris. Along the Canal du Nord we passed a number of such locks. I had to remove the car tyres that were used as fenders, as the boat would not fit into the lock with a tyre either side. We never even touched the lock wall before we stopped and the skipper did not think anything of it. By the way, the skipper's wife did it just as expertly.
capnsensible
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Spent many happy hours sat at the Yacht Cub by the bridge watching the superb seamanship of the superyacht skippers.
That bridge doesn't look very wide from the cockpit of a small yacht either......
The jostling for position to go through is almost like a race start! One of my favourite Windies Islands. :encouragement:
That bridge doesn't look very wide from the cockpit of a small yacht either......
The jostling for position to go through is almost like a race start! One of my favourite Windies Islands. :encouragement:
tudorsailor
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I wonder if the drone belongs to the yacht. It would certainly help the skipper to have this view!
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NealB
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His yacht breaks one of my fundamental rules of yacht aesthetics.
To my eye, it always looks wrong to have a coachroof on coachroof, on a coachroof.
It looks like the upper layers are an afterthought.
She'd look infinitely better with just the first 'floor'.
Sorry for thread drift.
To my eye, it always looks wrong to have a coachroof on coachroof, on a coachroof.
It looks like the upper layers are an afterthought.
She'd look infinitely better with just the first 'floor'.
Sorry for thread drift.
Seajet
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NealB,
I think you're being very kind; the only way to improve the look of that abomination would be an afternoon spent firing RPG's at it...
I think you're being very kind; the only way to improve the look of that abomination would be an afternoon spent firing RPG's at it...
NealB
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Well.....ok.....yes.. though I'm not exactly sure what an RPG is (but it sounds nasty).
tudorsailor
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Searush
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More likely to be the original Roman(?) winged messenger of their gods. That's how he would be able to take aerial pictures, isn't it?
NealB
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Thanks, tudorsailor, that does indeed look like a very nasty bit of hardware.