Crash Test Boat.

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DJE said:
Snooks, is this anything to do with you!
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Sadly not me as such, after being confined to the office for the last 8 weeks to allow my back to recover following my accident last year, I'm now only allowed to do land based jobs, so I'm missing out on it.:(

But yes it is Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat in a Viking burial stylee gas explosion with the help of the RN...And yes, she is insured with Admiral Insurance for recovery of wreck if it does all go wrong.
 
Snooks; can you tell your colleagues that this has been one of the most fascinating and worthwhile series of articles I have ever read in a yachting magazine? Bouquets to all concerned.

Presumably, once you've blown her up, you'll be passing her on to PBO for a series entitled "A winter restoration project"? :)
 
jhr said:
Snooks; can you tell your colleagues that this has been one of the most fascinating and worthwhile series of articles I have ever read in a yachting magazine? Bouquets to all concerned.

Presumably, once you've blown her up, you'll be passing her on to PBO for a series entitled "A winter restoration project"? :)
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I agree this is a very interesting series, I look forward to the finale, I hope it is not too big a bang. 200m does not seem that far if bits should go flying off?
 
I saw the CTB at Sibs.

I was wondering how many people enquired about the price before looking up at the remainder of the rigging.
 
jhr said:
Snooks; can you tell your colleagues that this has been one of the most fascinating and worthwhile series of articles I have ever read in a yachting magazine? Bouquets to all concerned.

Presumably, once you've blown her up, you'll be passing her on to PBO for a series entitled "A winter restoration project"? :)
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They've still got to set fire to it yet...... dont you realise it is the equivalent of Top Gear's Toyota truck? :)
 
Are they trying different amounts of gas leakage and different igniting implements (cigarette, bilge pump float switch, starting the engine, tossing a match in), or just an aesthetic boom? And perhaps different ways of getting gas out the bilges - would a (manual!) bilge pump do the trick?

I'm curious how much gas it would take to get a result, and if it ever at all disperses. i.e. will my failed attempt at lighting the gas oven come back to haunt me?
 
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sighmoon said:
I'm curious how much gas it would take to get a result, and if it ever at all disperses. i.e. will my failed attempt at lighting the gas oven come back to haunt me?
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Chris has done a lot of research into gas explosions, how they are caused, how they can be prevented, ways of testing for gas leaks etc, but what we don't know is how much damage they can actually cause inside and the circumstances that lead to the explosion. We have a theoritcal gas/air mixure, but how does the explosion spread through the boat and her fittings?

We'll have a video camera inside the boat as well as on deck to capture the explosion which should be happening this morning.

Basically it will be a wake up call to anyone who hasn't thought about their gas installation, and an visual demonstration why keeping a gas bottle inside the boat really isn't a very good idea :)
 
sighmoon said:
Are they trying different amounts of gas leakage and different igniting implements (cigarette, bilge pump float switch, starting the engine, tossing a match in)?
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For mad ex-wives purposes? (And bung in mobile phone, lightswitch and torch for Sandyman?).

sighmoon said:
And perhaps different ways of getting gas out the bilges - would a (manual!) bilge pump do the trick?
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For boatowning ex-husband of aforementioned mad ex-wife?

Sorry, for "mad" read "very angry and/or possibly living with mental health issues"...?
 
DJE said:
You're going to need a very fast camera!:)
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They do exist. A mate of mine was using one for some engineering purpose in his PhD, but was able to borrow it out of hours. It was fast enough to capture in slo-mo the hand-shaped ripples spreading out across a slapped (female, willing) arse :D

He had quite a beautiful sequence of a dropped lightbulb smashing as well, which was somewhat more presentable in polite company :)

Pete
 
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