MapisM
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Yep, it's just the autofocus that struggles a bit in low light, but that's noticeable also because in normal light it's amazingly fast.
One week around the boot's heel - some pics
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MapisM
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Interesting - did you have the opportunity to try some real fast laps? :encouragement:
Anyway, you must remember this other spot in that area, I suppose...
henryf
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Absolutely gorgeous images. Instantly transported me back to our Monte Carlo to Athens cruise last August. The mediteranian DNA is strong and you can pick out elements of many of the places we visited.
Thanks for taking the time to post.
Henry
Thanks for taking the time to post.
Henry
rafiki_
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They were all fast laps...................but didn't really feel like it. 12.8 km banked circle. Hands off at 180 km/hr. Needed to start paying attention at 240 km/hr!Interesting - did you have the opportunity to try some real fast laps? :encouragement:
Anyway, you must remember this other spot in that area, I suppose...
Used to find the local drivers amusing. A couple of glasses of vino at lunch time, and they would have their feet on the dash board
Aircon wasn't standard on Fiats in those days.
Used to really enjoy overtaking the odd Lambo with the Jag. They were nowhere near as quick as their spec sheet implied.
Hardmy
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I only met Nico, which I guess you know.
I was impressed overall, also because I didn't expect to find such an organised and well equipped structure in that area.
The only thing I'd rather not try is the entrance in the travel lift basin in a windy day...
Of course I know Nico, he kind of coordinates the office stuff. You probably met also Mirna? I guess the brothers weren't there then. You probably would have liked them, very knowledgeable about ship building. As said before, I like them and was really happy there. So what do you think, should BartW refit BA there?
The entrance is interesting indeed. This pic was shot after I arrived. But, conditions had deteriorated after they took me out of the water:
Monopoli in December 2014, people were still sunbathing/swimming:
Looks like we shot the same picture. Interesting contrast between December and April!
MapisM
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Naah, that's because Valentino was a gentleman.
He must have thought it was nice to lift his right foot and make British visitors proud of their green stuff...
MapisM
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Well, that's up to him of course.
What I surely would do in his boots is get an unbiased opinion on WHAT to do exactly, from someone with a lot of experience on wooden boats - and possibly on Canados specifically.
And in a sense, it might be better to get such opinion from someone else than the yard which should do the job...
Thanks for posting your pics, they are a nice addition to this thread.
Btw, I meant to tell Vas (but I forgot in my first reply) that of course he's welcome to post also his pics of that area - as well as anyone else, of course.
It's a shame that we don't have a dedicated forum section for trip reports.
There are so many that were posted in the past (and I'm not talking of my own!) which are better than anything one could find in any tourist guide.
Otoh, finding them now that they are buried together with anchor and colreg debates is almost a mission impossible... :ambivalence:
Hardmy
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Oh yes, I 300% agree. Not only in the Mobo section, I am sure that I miss also a lot of trip reports in the raggie section where I never go. My preferred threads are indeed #1 trips with lots of pics from very different cruising areas and #2 refit/newbuildings/newbuys! At least, its useful when new threads are clearly marked with the magical words "pics" and "refit" in the title
scubaman
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I totally agree re the cruise reports. It would be great to have a sticky thread into which links to individual cruise reports (with short descriptions) could be posted. Iirc, P, you made the effort of gathering a list at some point but keeping that updated and on the first page is, as you say, a mission impossible.
The current stickies are useless/not relevant anyway so why not put them to proper use.
The current stickies are useless/not relevant anyway so why not put them to proper use.
AndieMac
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Fantastic and skilfully taken photos MM, such an interesting looking destination. Hope everything is OK at home....
rafiki_
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Overtook one as its engine was sending out smoke signals��Naah, that's because Valentino was a gentleman.
He must have thought it was nice to lift his right foot and make British visitors proud of their green stuff...
jfm
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Those are very fine pictures mapism - thanks for posting. My favourite is the second one
That looks quite some boatyard. I couldn't read the travel hoist rating but it is surely 100 tonnes plus.
That looks quite some boatyard. I couldn't read the travel hoist rating but it is surely 100 tonnes plus.
MapisM
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Thanks for asking C, the answer is so-so, I'm afraid.
I mean, could be worse, considering also that the old girl is by now closer being to being 90 rather than 80yo.
But atm (and in the foreseeable future), S still wouldn't be confident enough to arrange trips requiring a long haul flight to return, if necessary.
We don't complain though, we have plenty of nice places to see not too far from home, as this thread proves!
MapisM
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Yup, 140 IIRC.
I must say that its setup didn't impress me though - you can't see that in the pic posted by Harmy, but each sling support is lifted by a single steel cable.
No big deal when lifting a boat well within its capacity, as obviously would be the case for even the larger of the forum boats, but I'd be nervous to see a 140T beast entirely depending on 4 steel cables, when the failure of just one of them would have catastrophic consequences...