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

just catching up on this thread...seems to actually be a real project....great news!

some pics would certainly be good, especially after 82 pages of posts.

36,000 litres is 5% so you're saying it's capacity is over 700,000 litres!.....:eek:

What are you actually going to do with the boat?
 
MrB said:
There are some on marine traffic, 6 I think. There are photos on his other thread on here but no new ones since some work has been done though.
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Hi Team,

It's because I can't upload new photos.

I jusally get time to come on YBW when I'm in bed, so some hours between about 11pm and 5am (and via my mobile phone too)... So it's too much for me to find these ways to load photos.

I have done two things. (1) created a Wikipedia page. It says it takes 8 months for an admin to go from draft to full.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Saint_Christopher_(NZ_Yacht)?markasread=134004301

(2) I've also added this to one of my Facebook pages. I thought this would let me link to pictures... But I'm not so sure. Cool pictures are now there of the 'infamous' dinghy being loaded on my crane. WAIT FOR IT: They tell me the dinghy was nearly 2.9 tonnes. Does that sound right?

Here's the page on Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/OurBlueOcean...id=155298294892735&mt_nav=1&ref=page_internal

If someone out here is able to approve the wikipedia page, that seems an easy place for me to link to, and to use to update photos on the talk page of that (behind the front page of the article), while work is getting done. We're moving it to Spain, because work just isn't getting done in Norway. We've heard of two other boats doing the same. #AlwaysRaining. #OhSoCold.

If.... This is a nice opportunity for someone here to just go and delete the wikipedia page, I'll run out of enthusiasm quickly, and will stop sharing again, so if it's alright with everyone -- please don't troll it.... If you don't like the page, that's fine... But I'd rather not have the page, and not share photos, than be trolled all over again...!

No offence to everyone... But if there's some lingering enerty that wants to do that... Please express it here, amongst friends, and not on Wikipedia. :)

Now, let me post this, and see if it works....!
 
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I don't get why everything is just so odd. The main photo with blue hull is obviously photoshopped in a odd way. The support boat is just a RIB. Surely it's easier to load photos here than create a Wikipedia page? And that page is just odd too. You are truly a man of mystery Rob.
 
OceanSprint said:
I don't get why everything is just so odd. The main photo with blue hull is obviously photoshopped in a odd way. The support boat is just a RIB. Surely it's easier to load photos here than create a Wikipedia page? And that page is just odd too. You are truly a man of mystery Rob.
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Feedback received.

It was easier for me to do the wikipedia page....

The blue hull was my MS Paint efforts to show how I wanted the blue hull to be painted, with white trim. Plus the roof, which was supposed to be completed by now.

On the RIB, what else was it supposed to be? I'd have loved a hydrofoiling thing capable of 50 knots... (Lols)... But boats are just boats?

I feel like I'm dissapointing you OceanSpirit?
 
alt said:
Nice one! I'm free from Apr 23rd, PM me if of use any date after that :)
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Noted, with great thanks Alt. I'm still in NZ... Was supposed to be up there this weekend, but maybe next weekend. Lots of very cool things happening this week that I couldn't leave. Did anyone see our mention I'm the FT? One of the top growning firms in Asia-Pacific, so they noticed. :) ... And that's nothing compared to what's going on now.. :)
 
Capital_R said:
Noted, with great thanks Alt. I'm still in NZ... Was supposed to be up there this weekend, but maybe next weekend. Lots of very cool things happening this week that I couldn't leave. Did anyone see our mention I'm the FT? One of the top growning firms in Asia-Pacific, so they noticed. :) ... And that's nothing compared to what's going on now.. :)
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Hats off to you Rob. Taking on a vessel of that age and operational history is just never going to be easy. But I fear there is still a mountain (and mountain of cash) to get over yet. But still, All the best.
 
OceanSprint said:
Hats off to you Rob. Taking on a vessel of that age and operational history is just never going to be easy. But I fear there is still a mountain (and mountain of cash) to get over yet. But still, All the best.
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I hear you and I agree the mountains of cash issue is.... quite a lot more than it's comfortable to part with.... But, what the hell.

I was remoteking somewhere that it would have been easy just buy a bunch of little boats and use which everyone was working at the time...

The paperwork required for this, on entering and exiting ports is mind blowing.

But then again so it's the idea of being at sea and something like this, to me. So we'll see it's fun to do unexpected things. Let's just hope I do this one (project) well, too...!
 
Oh no, I just lost a big draft post!

Oops. Summary: fueling complete. A truck plus trailer showed up and put aboard 33,000 litres. Additional water ballast is 60 cubes. So she's 88 tonnes heavier than yesterday. Photos not yet sent (don't start me!). She's floating 50cm lower in the water, which confirms that she's about 492.8 metric tonnes of metal and stuff, prior to loading her up. now she's displacing 579 tonnes, cranes and winches and rollers removed, with a little bit of fuel and some basic ballast. :)
 
Capital_R said:
Oh no, I just lost a big draft post!
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Yes, that’s really annoying when it happens. You are by no means the first to have suffered from this Forum glitch.

One way to avoid this possibility in the future, is to type the new post in a plain Word document and then when you have finished writing it, copy and paste it into the Forum.

Fantastic story - which Wetherspoons are we all meeting in? :D
 
This photo makes me very happy!!

Thank you! Yes - she moved last week; and I was so pleased. First time under her own power for three years. And not a single problem. Surveyor was on board, and sea-trials now complete, and 5/10year class inspections are finally signed off. Whoot!

I got her almost 18 months ago, and when she went into drydocking, I wanted it clean and blasted. Blue was the only color they had to repaint. She then sat there as I had some crew issues, and work started again late last year. :)

BTW.... The dinghy is bung. The 7.1m inboard V8 is shot. I'm considering dumping it, unless someone can put in a new (probably diesel) replacement without bothering me with more problems...!

Very great... Thank you so much for the photo.

:)
 
I did notice she was moving about quite a lot last week so must have been the trials. When do you think you will be moving her for good?
 
I must say, I find this thread bizarre. After hundreds of posts, we haven't had a single decent photo. And I'm not talking professional photos, just some that someone (crew, worker, etc) with a camera phone could take in 30 minutes showing of various parts of the vessel (overall exterior, mods made so far, interior, etc). Most odd.
 
petem said:
I must say, I find this thread bizarre. After hundreds of posts, we haven't had a single decent photo. And I'm not talking professional photos, just some that someone (crew, worker, etc) with a camera phone could take in 30 minutes showing of various parts of the vessel (overall exterior, mods made so far, interior, etc). Most odd.
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Erm Pete, how long did your ‘time to buy another boat?’ thread run ;)
 
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