What do you think this 73m superyacht is up to?

[RunAgroundHard]

An attempt at the 8647 message to those who need to be contacted but don't read The Times anymore.

 

[Wansworth]

Indecisive!

 

[Blueboatman]

Driving lessons for the new owner?

 

[ChromeDome]

Vodka is the answer. Who's the skipper?

 

[oldharry]

Obvious:: owner has let his wife/girlfriend/ child have a go on the helm. A bit like the airliner that crashed some years ago after the pilot let his son take the controls... I was on a Calmac ferry that started going all over the place after the skipper let a family member take the wheel.manu years ago.

 

[dunedin]

Many years back when we got our first GPS with a screen that could show a track (no chart back then) ......... the kids steered around to create shapes and their initials

 

[Irish Rover]

Ship PREDATOR (Yacht) Registered in St Kitts Nevis - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 1009314, MMSI 341548000, Call sign V4TN4

Here is a photo from Marinetraffic - she seems to have a variation on a theme of an 'X' bow, which is probably good for seakeeping, but it does look rather odd (as if it got bashed in ).

I saw your post a few days ago and was a bit confused by the "bashed in" observation. I've always admired her sleek look which seems to me to be very much in keeping with her name. I've been meaning to take a few pics since to post when I'm passing in and out but I kept forgetting to take my phone up to the flybridge. Anyway I remembered today.

 

[ProMariner]

Dodging is the answer, any number of bureaucratic, metrological or programming reasons you might find yourself at sea with a variable amount of time to kill, a limited geographical area to wait in, and for whatever reason, no ability to spend it at anchor. Think going hove too outside a port to await first light before entering, this is the mobo equivalent. Cruise ships like to keep moving to keep their stabilisers working, tugs with tows keep moving to keep their tow lines under tension, sometimes it's just that keeping moving involves less admin than anchoring.

In this case, am guessing it was just to give the various shipping agents time to process the departure paperwork, clear the arrival paperwork, and pay off the necessary interested parties, it's probably cheaper than getting impounded on arrival. Have spent months and months of my life doing this, you usually find angles that minimise rolling, keep the satellite dishes happy, and areas that keep you in mobile signal to keep the crew happy. Catching up with chart corrections and updating publications, filling in the last month and next week of H&S checklists etc etc etc etc. They say that 70% of work is make-work, I think that's an underestimate.

I do quite like that bow, the profile overall looks very rakish, quite pretty as these things go, to me anyway.