Bajansailor
Well-Known Member
Further to my previous thread ( http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=237131 ) describing our visit to England to attend sea trials on the new Oil Spill Response Vessel for the Oil Terminal in Barbados, here are a few photos of her after she arrived here last week.
Here she is at the haul out yard in Bridgetown, finally, after being shipped from Newcastle to Antwerp, where she had to wait 6 weeks for the ship bringing her to Barbados.
Astute anoraks have probably already noticed the port propeller missing.... it got dinged while loading in Newcastle, and was sent on later after being repaired, and was fitted soon after these photos were taken.
There were two Bertram 31s hauled out in the yard - one is lurking in the photo below.
There were very neat little swing out brackets on the trailer to make it effectively wider.
She has a very simple dory type hull form, with a very effective (against spray flying up) aircraft carrier style bow overhang!
It all looks a bit precarious, but she was well strapped down on the trailer.
The Travel-Lift usually has longitudinal 'I' spreader beams supporting the straps, but as this is quite a tight fit, they had to take the beams off, and attach the straps directly to the lifting pulleys.
A virtual pint for anybody who recognises the bow of the boat to the right of the Travel-lift in the photo above, or the Builder of the sportsfishing vessel in the background below :
It looks like a rather tight fit......
Nah, loads of room on each side!
Bow view - trimming nicely.
Stern view - the open hatches are the accesses to the steering gear compartments. There are 4 water tight compartments in each hull, which is a good safety feature.
Here we are on passage up the south coast from Bridgetown, heading east to Oistins, trundling along at 8 knots, 2,000 rpm, into a slight head sea, and very comfortable.
There are high rise (high for Barbados) condos all along the south coast now
A few wake shots while toddling along at full speed of 10 knots
(the new coastguard harbour is in the background of the first two)
And finally, we arrived in Oistins, and found that our mooring had gone awol, hence had to find somewhere temporary and safe to secure Responder until a new mooring could be laid - there were no tankers present discharging fuel, so we tied up to one of their mooring buoys, and were pretty certain that she wouldnt be dragging it during the night.....
Here she is at the haul out yard in Bridgetown, finally, after being shipped from Newcastle to Antwerp, where she had to wait 6 weeks for the ship bringing her to Barbados.
Astute anoraks have probably already noticed the port propeller missing.... it got dinged while loading in Newcastle, and was sent on later after being repaired, and was fitted soon after these photos were taken.
There were two Bertram 31s hauled out in the yard - one is lurking in the photo below.
There were very neat little swing out brackets on the trailer to make it effectively wider.
She has a very simple dory type hull form, with a very effective (against spray flying up) aircraft carrier style bow overhang!
It all looks a bit precarious, but she was well strapped down on the trailer.
The Travel-Lift usually has longitudinal 'I' spreader beams supporting the straps, but as this is quite a tight fit, they had to take the beams off, and attach the straps directly to the lifting pulleys.
A virtual pint for anybody who recognises the bow of the boat to the right of the Travel-lift in the photo above, or the Builder of the sportsfishing vessel in the background below :
It looks like a rather tight fit......
Nah, loads of room on each side!
Bow view - trimming nicely.
Stern view - the open hatches are the accesses to the steering gear compartments. There are 4 water tight compartments in each hull, which is a good safety feature.
Here we are on passage up the south coast from Bridgetown, heading east to Oistins, trundling along at 8 knots, 2,000 rpm, into a slight head sea, and very comfortable.
There are high rise (high for Barbados) condos all along the south coast now
A few wake shots while toddling along at full speed of 10 knots
(the new coastguard harbour is in the background of the first two)
And finally, we arrived in Oistins, and found that our mooring had gone awol, hence had to find somewhere temporary and safe to secure Responder until a new mooring could be laid - there were no tankers present discharging fuel, so we tied up to one of their mooring buoys, and were pretty certain that she wouldnt be dragging it during the night.....
