Parking in the Med

Reminds me of when my bow thruster got stuck on full left, everyone watching was wondering what I was doing, but I couldn't help it.
 
This was quite a while ago, it was the controls supposedly.

And possibly the emergency stops as that'd be the first thing I'd go for if you heard 4000+hp spooling up with 100 yards of water before a quay, having not touched anything!
 
markc said:
What was the big splash at 0:43 off the stbd side?
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Missed that Thx .
Looked at that a few times now to work out which dir it’s from .If blow out from the boat it would be aside the hull and a different splash not so high .Would have to be a spinning part centrifugally letting go .G box shattered maybe , unlikely a shaft issue ie the coupling .Buts all this is unlikely as the resultant hole would have sunk it and it did not sink in full public glare .
So for those reasons it’s not that .

Looks like an object of weight chucked out of the side door to the helm , judging from the splash distance from the hull approx 2 m and it must have been pretty large and heavy ish the splash is tall and on the sound despite the shrieking woman “ Bravi “ which if have got this right translates to “ well done “ - sarcasm I think ?

Conclusion = Something a person or folks at the helm station did not want authorities to come across should officialdom enter the boat shortly in terms of some sort of accident investigation or rescue which the thrower assumed was the next step ??

Or just a mad pique of fit by someone, but it’s not a light weight phone or set of keys - thinking row or something.

Maybe empty bottles - but so what ? There’s gonna be booze on a boat that size that’s not the issue , the issue is wether booze is circulating in the helms-persons blood , and crew on duty not the empty bottles of the guests in the gash .

Wonder wether blood test for booze + crucially substance abuse was ever done or if officialdom ever got involved ??
That would rule that out .

It does rev up at first going from R to N to F , I mean he must have floored it for that amount of smoke , then he throttles back 1/2 way a cross , and it seems like first click in F when he crunches the jetty with the bow shortly after that splash.

So the “ loss of control “ argument to me seems weak very weak .
As others have said “ kill switches “ etc

As others have said everyone’s worst nightmare a control problem in a marina .

Its spinning at the start so Port is in R and Stb in F
But after the spin he went from R to N to F then presume back to N after the 2 nd hit .
As said gave it beans then backed off .

Very strange indeed .
 
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Other wild cards .
Owner having a go .
But its border line under the 24 M LLL* , and the skip would be at his side + that’s pretty deep into Genoa so he would have had plenty of practice time before he arrived there .Aside the initial spin looks normal as does the R from the spin .Except no actual berths the tenders are there and no guys on the stern with lines .

Or no crew .
But there are guys with white shirts running about and even one in full “ whites “ at the start after the first whack runs back up the stb side to the helm , so why go out if no one can drive it ?
But the other white shirt guy does not seem flustered after the stern whack , because the capt has run back I think .
So there are crew imho .Capt went to the stern as the helm spun it .Then shot back after the crunch .



* With nose cones and bathing platforms I think builders can go to 92 feet and limbo dance under the 24 LLL , so that might qualify for owner / helmsman .


Sea trail .
Yes I kid you not .Broker offers prospect or prospect demands a go .
Happened to me albeit a smaller scale in Naples , they said after untying the lines “ do you want to take it out “
Absolutely declined , busy marina , ferry boats , windy etc .
Once out in the open sea then I took over .
Same on return I got it in the marina in Naples through the entrance ( massive btw ) on throttles but them passed it back for berthing to the skipper .

Ps as far as I recall nobody through anything overboard in the marina either :D
 
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So go 14 and see the guy in full “ whites “ come out of the stb door and walk down to the stern .
The boats spinning nicely.
Then @20 ( crash imminent ) the same guy presume skipper / captain runs back to the helm .

So what I think the newby on the helm panics and slams it panicking to full F hence the black smoke of the turbos spooling up etc .
How ever the system can’t go to N never mind to R because there is a fail safe Rev device that requires the revs to drop below a certain amount before a gear selection.
By the time the revs have dropped in F it’s too late , the boats covered too much ground to avoid a smack ahead into the jetty .
They can’t shift it to N to R fast enough either .

1- it’s revved up too much in F from the black smoke incident .So he can’t move it to R quickly enough to avoid the bow hit .

2- yes there was a failure of the Rev limited selector .This may be because no ones up to now gone from WOT Fwds straight to N and attempted R while the engines are spooling down , so it’s kinda locked itself in F .
To undo this it requires a system re boot or something, certainly getting the manual out .By that time the bows crunching the jetty .

As well al know those with large engines in marinas just use first click only in switching between F-N-R .
eg my tiny boat by comparison does 7-8 Knots in first click yet the marina speed is 5 , so constantly move from F to N .
Just tick over 600 rpm only and a lot of N with marina work .

It’s all about anticipating and slow gentle movements.
 
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