Yacht under a bridge?

[braehouse]

Shamelessly stolen from the Hallberg Forum................

http://www.dump.com/2011/09/15/how-do-you-get-80-feet-of-mast-under-a-65-foot-bridge-video/

Chris

 

[Lakesailor]

and shamelessly repeated here for the 3rd time

 

[braehouse]

and shamelessly repeated here for the 3rd time

Sorry about that but I had not seen it on here before and maybe some others have not either!

 

[pagoda]

Shamelessly stolen from the Hallberg Forum................

http://www.dump.com/2011/09/15/how-do-you-get-80-feet-of-mast-under-a-65-foot-bridge-video/

Chris

When dinghy racing, our club goes below 2 bridges at low water - and races in Montrose Harbour a couple of times a season.
The railway bridge ain't too much of a problem, but the new road bridge makes it interesting. There's maybe 1m clearance at low water when we go out.
Coming back , depending on timing, you can easily clash by 1 to 1.5m!
You are under sail, with 3-4Kts of tide behind you, so the accepted technique is to lean over and almost dip your rail, but sail in a nice stright line up the middle. Quite hair raising at times.
Those with smaller cojones capsise at the edges and walk the boats under the bridge!
Nice to see people doing similar things with bigger boats though...

Graeme

 

[prv]

and shamelessly repeated here for the 3rd time

Sure it's been more than three.

Pete

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

thanks, not seen by me.

 

[Sybarite]

Shamelessly stolen from the Hallberg Forum................

http://www.dump.com/2011/09/15/how-do-you-get-80-feet-of-mast-under-a-65-foot-bridge-video/

Chris

This 80' Norfolk wherry

http://www.ncsl.co.uk/ardea/image10.htm

was moored in the Seine close to home and I was invited on board by the owners. The boat is not rigged here but the couple have sailed it in the Seine. The mast is in an enormous tabernacle and in the bow, below decks, there is a huge windlass. When sailing, they drop the mast just before the bridge and winch it back up after passing under before losing way. They were braver than me.

 

[braehouse]

Brave

They were braver than me.

And me!

 

[Colvic Watson]

thanks, not seen by me.

Not by me either, thanks for posting

 

[Bav34]

and shamelessly repeated here for the 3rd time

I'm shameless too

http://www.dump.com/2011/09/15/how-do-you-get-80-feet-of-mast-under-a-65-foot-bridge-video/

 

[KellysEye]

Another thanks for posting I hadn't seen that either.

 

[ffiill]

And I know where I could put that to good use where at low low tide for winter storage I only need about two feet! under the road into Loch Long by Eilean Donan Castle.
It used to be a lifting bridge until the present road to Skye was built in the 1970s.
Alternative I guess would be to load your boat with excess weight so it rides very low in water!
There again once saw a brand new artic try to cross the road bridge over the Falls of Laura in front of me on Loch Etive just north of Oban-he peeled off his aluminium roof like a tin of saradines!

 

[nigelm]

I hadn't seen it before so thanks from
Me, nice looking boat aswell ...