Cruise Reports Taking our yacht to Sweden for the summer - any 50m marinas?

alt said:
Capital_R - Do you have a completion date?
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The boat was supposed to be ready to go to Greece for its hull fairing and cosmetic work in November.

Got frustrated and sent two crew to push it forward in december.

She got ready to leave by mid Jan, but we did a surity dry dock and such first. Then the two new crew decided they wanted a bigger tender... and went to England by truck to pick it up.

Truck ended up towing the tender (7m RIB...) back on a trailer. Trailer axle broke in Hamburg. So they drove back to the UK to pick up a new Axle. And are now there. After a month of trying.

While away, boat got a sea-trials paint job and refloated. No custard... limited photos


Plan was to get it to Greece and have had the interior and exterior styling complete for a trip to ANZAC cove for April 25th. Big day if you're from so far south.

Take it for a two week tour; se what we liked/don't like, and then finalise 2 more months of work (if any changes are made)... then enjoy for July through September.... before thinking about another winter in EU or beginning the trip down to the Pacific via the Caribbean season.

At this point...

I would just be happy to be able to use it...!
 
Crikey, a lot of tooing-and-froing. (spelling??)

So, realistically, when will you be on-board, sitting back with a beer thinking "aah, it's finally coming together"?
 
alt said:
Crikey, a lot of tooing-and-froing. (spelling??)

So, realistically, when will you be on-board, sitting back with a beer thinking "aah, it's finally coming together"?
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I'm hoping, next weekend.

She's a beautiful ship. Really feels like a "home" already. Alongside pic below:

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So i love it already.

The crew's accommodation is already very nice. The "survivors" centre is okay.... but i really want some teak decks.... and to have her anchored somewhere, all generators etc powered down..
And just running off batteries and inverters.

Then.... that's the moment the beer comes out...!
 
PS:

Yes.... earlier i think i got some more numbers wrong... (big surprise)...

The 5.2m or 5.7m depth included the retractable thrusters down.... but it may be more. The thrusters are either 1.35m or 1.8m diameter (internal/external measurements; or diameter cs fore and aft?)...

Best thing is to come have a look.... then we'll both know!
 
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newWave said:
So she's currently parked in Skudenshavn Norway ?
http://www.tananger-offshore.no/index.php/vessel-information/m-v-guard-aletai

670 cubes of fuel, wicked.

All your stats seem to match, though hardly a family ship.
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Lols. Eye roll.

You guys havent heard of game theory, or are up to speed with false economies?

It would have of course been very easy for me to paste the same links.... but for some reason or another, I chose not to.

So rushing around... putting things online, serves short term gains...... but creates a suboptimal outcome in the longer term.....

670 cubes, plus two aft water tanks (balast or diesel), plus the forward converted balast tank... yeah. A lot of diesel.

Anyway..

Nicely dug up; but would have been cooler if you'd just said "guys, got some info that backs this up: official stats shows 670 cubes of diesel. Rob, why dont you share the profile page? Do you mind if i do?".

Rob: cheers... happy for people to know it's out there, but yep, chose not to put it up. Probably for reasons, but go ahead.. cut and paste the details if you like".
 
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I 'm kinda baffeled by the tone of your reply, I intended no offence.
Not being English speaking by nature, I might have formulated my post incorrectly.

What did you expect we are all interested and I wanted to know if it was possible to put so much fuel on a 50m, which for a typicall yacht is not.
 
newWave said:
I 'm kinda baffeled by the tone of your reply, I intended no offence.
Not being English speaking by nature, I might have formulated my post incorrectly.

What did you expect we are all interested and I wanted to know if it was possible to put so much fuel on a 50m, which for a typicall yacht is not.
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You have great English! Certainly better than my French. :-) Respect. #MonoLingual

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Capital_R said:
anchored somewhere, all generators etc powered down..
And just running off batteries and inverters
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That sounds very hard to achieve, in my books. That's the kind of vessel which is firmly in the "always on" territory for at least one of her gensets, I would think.

Otoh, after what I read so far on this thread, I wouldn't be surprised if the next feature would be a couple of masts and sails as a get-home system... :D :rolleyes:
 
You didn't see the part where I ordered a couple of https://www.smartflower.com/en pods for the foredeck?

:)

I agree... the engineers look at me like I'm crazy when i tell them i want to go to zero diesel burn overnight. It's just so foreign.... if it's not running at least one of it's three radar systems.... something isnt right.

Slowly teaching them that this is the green pastures of retirement, and as long as the engine isn't more than 5 minutes notice, it doesn't need full three phases of everything, all at once.... it's a fun process.
 
Capital_R said:
I'm hoping, next weekend.

She's a beautiful ship. Really feels like a "home" already. Alongside pic below:

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So i love it already.

The crew's accommodation is already very nice. The "survivors" centre is okay.... but i really want some teak decks.... and to have her anchored somewhere, all generators etc powered down..
And just running off batteries and inverters.

Then.... that's the moment the beer comes out...!
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There lies half the problem of this thread at the beginning. The first picture you posted of what the "Yacht" would look like is nothing like the SHIP you are posting now lol. So are you Tananger offshore?
 
MrB said:
There lies half the problem of this thread at the beginning. The first picture you posted of what the "Yacht" would look like is nothing like the SHIP you are posting now lol. So are you Tananger offshore?
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The


Tananger were the former owners.

Lols.... where's yr sense of vision, MrB?!

Here's the rather ambitious mockups of how a bit of profiling can change the way a boat looks....

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Again, the grey one was a design mock up... never a real photo.
 
Just been reading through some of the conversations! blimey, interesting and some good humour but troll? never crossed my mind just a bloke with a boat. But then some of the blokes with boats I've met in the 50m range can be quite unassuming.

However I am off to Scandinavia next week for work, and I'd love to see the boat (partly to do some business with the yard doing the work) so if that's possible let me know. I have one meeting in Norway and there are some other interesting projects there like this joint Plymouth Norwegian unmanned vessel.
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Neil_Y said:
Just been reading through some of the conversations! blimey, interesting and some good humour but troll? never crossed my mind just a bloke with a boat. But then some of the blokes with boats I've met in the 50m range can be quite unassuming.

However I am off to Scandinavia next week for work, and I'd love to see the boat (partly to do some business with the yard doing the work) so if that's possible let me know. I have one meeting in Norway and there are some other interesting projects there like this joint Plymouth Norwegian unmanned vessel.
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Sure thing;

PM me with time and place. I have not been to the yard she just came out of, but have email contacts.

Unmamned boats.... gosh. Looks cool. Good luck!

And yep... my recollection of this thread has been basically, "hi, anyone know about marinas in sweden"/"no but boat seems cool, got a pic?"/"no, but here's a design"/"cool - details"/"some details"/"CRACKPOT"/"not a crackpot, here's some more detail"/"obvious nutter"/"hmmm"/"<all his personal information we can find>"/"sigh".....!
 
Capital_R said:
You didn't see the part where I ordered a couple of https://www.smartflower.com/en pods for the foredeck?
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Nope, I didn't, sorry.
Otoh, I suppose you also missed several years and thousands of posts here in the asylum... :D

For instance, talking of solar energy, five years ago I had the opportunity to go onboard Tûranor PlanetSolar, which you might have heard of.
And even if any mobo capable of going RTW with solar energy alone commands respect, I can assure you that you wouldn't want to live with the compromises they had to make to build that vessel.
You can find the related 2012 thread here, if you're interested.
And also some views of the beast, together with her (very basic!) interiors, in this video:

Anyway, I do sympathize with your desire - in fact, I can only remember of one or two nights in decades of boating when I had to keep the genset on at night while anchored, just because weather was so hot and humid to require A/C, and the noise (not much, tbh) did spoil the sleep a bit.
But my old tub is a 53' timber boat, whose current demand for essential systems is ridiculous.
For a vessel like yours, I suspect you might have to accept what your engineers are telling you, eventually.
Best of luck with the zero emissions idea anyhow - even if only at anchor, that's very ambitious for such ship! :encouragement:
 
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"<all his personal information we can find>"

Sorry about that. I really thought you were someone pretending to be <the man> and was trying to flush you out as an imposter. I was going to contact "you" to warn you about it.

I'm envious of your ship. It looks good now, let alone if all the mods work out. I wish I could afford a "proper ship", although expect i'd need a commercial ticket to be master of it.

I did wonder if you were going to be cruising around the Med picking up refugees for the humanitarian aspect.
 
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