Sailing a superyacht, some speculation

[extravert]

No superyacht experience required to add to this post, just make it up as you go along. As well as dreaming about sailing in places that only Nigel has ever visited, I like to have the odd speculation about sailing on boats that I never will. So here's my list of speculations on sailing a 35m+ superyacht to start. Anyone want to add some more?

1) Pulling up the mainsail makes you sweat
2) A spinnaker wrap costs a year's salary
3) Trapping your fingers in an electric winch makes your eyes water
4) You'll never find anyone like Jimi on board
5) Wraparound shades obligatory
6) Look cool when the Yachting World photographer is around
7) Don't look for the main traveller, you will be disappointed
8) You'll never visit the Sea of Okhotsk
9) You won't get wet in Scotland, just go inside and sail from there
10) You can visit Loch Ranza, safe from gnat/midge tornadoes.

<hr width=100% size=1>Summer is what you expect - rain is what you get.

 

[flaming]

I doubt there'd be much sweating pulling up the main, a push button winch doesn't take much effort!

Of course if I was sailing a superyacht I'd make sure there were plenty of "ornaments" on board!

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[extravert]

Ah, but if you did pull up the mainsail by hand, it would make you sweat. I expect. You can pull them up by hand even with electric winches, can't you? I don't know. I've never sailed on a boat with electric winches so I am winging it here.

<hr width=100% size=1>Summer is what you expect - rain is what you get.

 

[jhr]

1) Antifouling between tides a bit of a challenge.
2) Newtown Creek a no-no at low water. And high water. Porthmadog also a bit dodgy, even at HWS.
3) You'll never find anyone like Jimi on board.
4) Bowthruster has greater h.p. than engine of current boat.
5) Storm jib would make acceptable winter cover for current boat.
6) Crew will not answer back, and disagreement with Mate will not lead to costly divorce.
7) Gourmet tinned products, courtesy of Messrs Fray, Bentos not much in evidence.
8) You'll never find anyone like Jimi on board.
9) Erm............

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[MainlySteam]

1) laughing at people sailing manky little boats who are so envious they are enraged /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

John

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[AlexL]

1) Gybing requires a passage plan.


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[Guest]

Thanks for the plug ....

but I am just a lucky one having chosen MN as a career before swallowing the anchor and coming ashore.

I worked all sorts of ships from coasters to one of the largest tankers built .... cargoes / work from Seismic thru acids, Phenols, Oil, Fertlizers, coal .......... about the only major type of ship I didn't sail on was Cruise Liner ..... an old joke is : Self Loading / Discharging cargo occupying 10 cu.ft = passengers !!

As to superyachts .... I wouldn't call it a superyacht, but I have opportunity to sail a famous yacht ....... MILDA. A 60ft clipper yacht that did a circum-nav under the skippership of the ex-PM of Latvia a few year ago .... she sits alongside near my home and I am often invited on ...... she has 2 baths ........ yep straight up - 2 baths, 13Kw genny, 175HP main engine, enough sail area to satisfy Mainlysteam and Oldhand ......... actually she's up for sale if anyone interested .........

If I had the dosh ......... dream on ....


<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ... and of course Yahoo groups :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gps-navigator/

 

[extravert]

More winches than you can shake your winch handle at.
More wenches than you can shake your wench handle at.


<hr width=100% size=1>My ultimate dream - sailing a superyacht on the Sea of Okhotsk

 

[Eccles]

Pulling up the main makes your crew sweat in their uniforms!

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[tome]

Ensign the size of my main, and room to berth my boat in their garage...

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[charon]

If you are looking for a 'bargain' superyacht there is one in Suezhaven Dock in Amsterdamm. It is brand new and the 'Owner' is apparently bankrupt. The hull is longer than the 3-masted barque adjacent and the mast (cutter rigged) was taller. Oh, by the way, all winches were hydraulic and the tender was stored in a garage under the rear deck, the hydraulic hatch hinging down and doubling as a ramp. The condition is immaculate with the maintenance crew removing their shoes on the carpet (!) on the quayside before stepping on the deck.

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[Peppermint]

Pulling up the sails is something you watch on CCTV.
You need GPS to find your bunk.
The main tender flies.
You don't know where you are and you don't care.
The scatter cushions cost more than your existing boat.
You are surrounded by Australians.
Honest. I know they're clean and tidy but they're Aussie alright.
The turning blocks are bigger than you.
The shower works and nobody hassels you about the water your using.
When you steer it feels like someones watching you.
You know it's going to end and you can't bear it.
You look down on your fellow yotties. You can't help it your so high up.

Mirabella V Oh! How you ruined my life.



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[Colin_S]

You have to watch the wake as you return one of the jetskis to the garage.

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[Sunnyseeker]

Pulling up the anchor will really do your back in!

<hr width=100% size=1>Oh ye who have your eyeballs vexed and tired feast them upon the wideness of the sea

 

[graham]

If the lifting keel jams down half the UK ports become unavailable.

I know a chap that does relief skipper work on the previous Mirabella. Getting the mainsail ashore for repair in Palma took a large crane.

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[Johnnygil]

Standing at the place where you steer from and you cant see the sharp end...or the blunt end either

And nigel luther "...... she has 2 baths ........ yep straight up - 2 baths"
dont u mean 2 berths oh sorry straight up they're showers lol



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[MrG]

1 - When one tacks one's superyacht, one expects someone to move one's G & T
to the otherside of the table.
2 - When one is berthed in Southampton, one expects the captain of the QM2 to
hail you personally before he ties up alongside.
3 - One has guards at the gangplank to prevent riff raff getting aboard and supping all the Blue sapphire.
4 - One's helicopter is used to do masthead repairs.
5 - One's bow is passing Cowes before one's stern clears Hurst Narrows.
6 - One does not gybe - period.
7 - One gives way very occassionally.

<hr width=100% size=1><font color=blue>Regards Mark

 

[musicman]

1)four ensuite cabins, with shower faclilities plus quarters for up to five crew members.
2)if you ever went bankrupt, you know you could sell the boat and buy a house or two, a couple of smaller yachts, and still be able to live off the interest of whats left in the bank

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[tome]

When berthed in Southampton, one insists that QE2 run lines ashore once she's rafted alongside...

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[Colin_S]

..........and then insist all the passengers go ashore by launch. One simply would not want hundreds of passengers and their attendant luggage trooping across the deck.

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