Somebody has broken my boat

[Frankie-H]

Any guesses as to how this might have happened.

 

[sailorman]

that hull / transom joint aint very strong is it

 

[photodog]

I hope that isnt your boat!

Crushed by a ferry?

 

[Marmalade]

are you serious - is that your boat?

 

[photodog]

Fart ignition in the rear cabin?

 

[VicS]

Any Italian cruise liners been passing your way ?

 

[Frankie-H]

No not mine , thank God. One I saw yesterday and took my camera with me.

Not a ferry but very close. A barge came out of the lock in Pt St Louis and failed to make the turn in the port basin.

 

[photodog]

So much for being made of plastic... They dont really bounce back like a proper fender.

 

[Cardo]

At least it looks like it may be a charter boat and not someone's personal P&J?

 

[ValleyForge]

SSShark !

 

[Seajet]

Add a few bolts No.1

I've seen several AWB style boats on these forums where the 'plug in' transom has detached; in one case it sank the boat after a collision sprang it out...

 

[Trop Cher]

Imagine the owner turning up to go for sail and finding that...nightmare!

 

[sailorman]

So much for being made of plastic... They dont really bounce back like a proper fender.

looks like the sikaflex gave way

 

[photodog]

looks like the sikaflex gave way

Right after the barge sat on it........

 

[Seajet]

Then again I worked on a 38 metre barge in Burgundy; the steering had 33 turns side to side, to give mechanical advantage when the rudder's in silt.

Imagine handling a tesco trolley on an ice rink, that's about it...

 

[Frankie-H]

The new Janitaus, which used to be commisioned here - before the 'crise'. Could not support their own weight on the keel. The keel joint was filled with sikaflex so that it would 'flex'. Great manufacturing point.

 

[Frankie-H]

Then again I worked on a 38 metre barge in Burgundy; the steering had 33 turns side to side, to give mechanical advantage when the rudder's in silt.

Imagine handling a tesco trolley on an ice rink, that's about it...

Yes a skilled job driving one of those but they do have a bloody great bow engine, driving the thruster. Perhaps that failed.

 

[BruceDanforth]

Most of that will polish out.

 

[Bosun Higgs]

Most of that will polish out.

You're just the man I need to clean my decks.

 

[Seajet]

Yes a skilled job driving one of those but they do have a bloody great bow engine, driving the thruster. Perhaps that failed.

Digbydog,

the larger commercial barges may have bow thrusters, but not any 38 metre job ( hotel barges in this case ) that I ever saw.

The one I was on had been built at Strasbourg as a standard cargo barge as part of reparations for WWII, one big slow revving donk & prop.

There was one rare twin screw one which should have made life a little easier, but one engine was always u/s so it was actually harder; we could always tell if they were ahead by the red paint on the lock gates...