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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #300 on: 08 October, 2016, 12:08:38 pm »
This

On the Thames by the Isle of Dogs a couple of days ago.
I guessed (almost) correctly that it had pitched up to salvage a barge which had sunk at its mooring buoy in the middle of the river around four weeks ago.
But no, no salvage, just shifted the wreck to the north bank of the river where, I guess, it is more out of harm's way.
It'll be something for the kids to play on at low tide.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #301 on: 20 October, 2016, 02:37:36 pm »
No pics, but a Finnish minelayer came into the harbour this morning and now there's a submarine lurking just outside  ??? Anything to do with the Russian flotilla?

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #302 on: 20 October, 2016, 02:55:21 pm »
No pics, but a Finnish minelayer came into the harbour this morning and now there's a submarine lurking just outside  ??? Anything to do with the Russian flotilla?

I wouldn't be at all surprised.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #303 on: 20 October, 2016, 03:11:06 pm »
No pics, but a Finnish minelayer came into the harbour this morning and now there's a submarine lurking just outside  ??? Anything to do with the Russian flotilla?

I wouldn't be at all surprised.

The submarine has come into the harbour. It's Norwegian S301.

I've never seen a submarine in this harbour.

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #304 on: 20 October, 2016, 03:37:34 pm »
They are there to Finnish the Russians off.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #305 on: 20 October, 2016, 03:50:55 pm »
They are there to Finnish the Russians off.

 ;D

Or they're helping to make sure that the Russians don't shoot up any trawlers if they pass through the North Sea. They have form for that sort of thing.  :demon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #306 on: 20 October, 2016, 07:17:28 pm »
A bunch of blond men going 'ka-ka-ka-ka-ka' in the Moorings this evening.

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #307 on: 20 October, 2016, 07:35:28 pm »
A bunch of blond men going 'Ulrika-ka-ka-ka-ka' in the Moorings this evening.

Fixed.   ;)
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #308 on: 20 October, 2016, 07:45:27 pm »
A bunch of blond men going 'Ulrika-ka-ka-ka-ka' in the Moorings this evening.

Fixed.   ;)

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #309 on: 20 October, 2016, 08:25:24 pm »
This is what a jack up rig looks like when you jack it right up in port.

Gorilla in Dundee by David Martin, on Flickr

One of the Gorilla class (VII I think).

The jack up platform was invented for installing the bridge at Montrose over the River Esk and then used for the replacement Tay Bridge.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #310 on: 20 October, 2016, 08:33:31 pm »
Strewth! wouldn't want to do that on a windy day!
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #311 on: 20 October, 2016, 08:44:05 pm »
Impressive. :thumbsup:

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #312 on: 20 October, 2016, 09:04:41 pm »
Strewth! wouldn't want to do that on a windy day!

Check out the water behind. It was far from a flat calm. About a force 5
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #313 on: 20 October, 2016, 09:08:08 pm »
Not sure what is worse - Having all that leggage exposed to Force 5 or submerged and exposed to currents?
Instinct makes me think Force 5 is worse.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #314 on: 21 October, 2016, 08:20:40 am »
Not sure what is worse - Having all that leggage exposed to Force 5 or submerged and exposed to currents?
Instinct makes me think Force 5 is worse.

There are whitecaps regularly which is consitent with force 5 especially as the fetch seems short.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #315 on: 21 October, 2016, 08:41:28 am »
I know this stuff is easy to look up but I think it's fun to see the descriptions which form the basis of the Beaufort Scale.

This was all formulated when there was no easy way of measuring wind speed, so the basis of the marks in the scale were determined by the observable change in the open sea state. What always tickles me is that the original scale didn't get beyond a 12, on the grounds that there was no discernible difference in the sea state however much more the wind blew. Or was it perhaps that no-one had been at sea in anything more than a 12 and survived.  :-) 

0   Calm            Sea like a mirror
1   Light air         Ripples with the appearance of scales are formed, but without foam crests
2   Light breeze      Small wavelets, still short but more pronounced; crests have a glassy appearance and do not break   Wind felt on exposed skin.
3   Gentle breeze      Large wavelets. Crests begin to break; scattered whitecaps
4   Moderate breeze   Small waves with breaking crests. Fairly frequent whitecaps.
5   Fresh breeze      Moderate waves of some length. Many whitecaps. Small amounts of spray.
6   Strong breeze      Long waves begin to form. White foam crests are very frequent. Some airborne spray is present.
7   High wind         Sea heaps up. Some foam from breaking waves is blown into streaks along wind direction. Moderate amounts of airborne spray.
8   Gale            Moderately high waves with breaking crests forming spindrift. Well-marked streaks of foam are blown along wind direction. Considerable airborne spray.
9   Strong/severe gale   High waves whose crests sometimes roll over. Dense foam is blown along wind direction. Large amounts of airborne spray may begin to reduce visibility.
10   Storm         Very high waves with overhanging crests. Large patches of foam from wave crests give the sea a white appearance. Considerable tumbling of waves with heavy impact. Large amounts of airborne spray reduce visibility.
11   Violent storm      Exceptionally high waves. Very large patches of foam, driven before the wind, cover much of the sea surface. Very large amounts of airborne spray severely reduce visibility.
12   Hurricane force      Huge waves. Sea is completely white with foam and spray. Air is filled with driving spray, greatly reducing visibility.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #316 on: 21 October, 2016, 11:51:38 am »
That's what they had at the times but it is a bit flawed as the wave shape will be dependent on fetch and for how long the wind has been blowing. Some people report sea and wind indepedently like f4 wind and f2 sea, at least there were doing this in the French navy during my national service.

I don't think that in a bay, force 4 can generate whitecaps like those on the photo, it just creates a short choppy sea. There could be exceptions in places with strong tidal streams though.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #317 on: 21 October, 2016, 01:41:25 pm »
Are those Jack-Up houses in the foreground?
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #318 on: 21 October, 2016, 05:31:41 pm »
No. Jerry-built...
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #319 on: 21 October, 2016, 05:37:30 pm »
I used to jack buildings up.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #320 on: 21 October, 2016, 06:59:56 pm »
I used to jack buildings up.

That's interesting, what type of buildings were they ?

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #321 on: 21 October, 2016, 07:30:21 pm »
No pics, but a Finnish minelayer came into the harbour this morning and now there's a submarine lurking just outside  ??? Anything to do with the Russian flotilla?

I wouldn't be at all surprised.

The submarine has come into the harbour. It's Norwegian S301.

I've never seen a submarine in this harbour.


Seems to have made the news...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-37730422

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #322 on: 22 October, 2016, 01:03:14 am »
I started with the walls of houses, then moved on to whole houses, warehouse roofs and ultimately a lighthouse. Good fun.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #323 on: 22 October, 2016, 02:02:15 am »
This was apparently jacked up . . .



The Eighth Air Force made rather a mess of the first phase whilst it was still wet. 
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #324 on: 26 February, 2017, 11:07:39 pm »
On a hill above land locked Dursley

2017-02-26_10-57-20 by Vince Hall, on Flickr

Poor man's RIB

2017-02-26_10-58-26 by Vince Hall, on Flickr
216km from Marsh Gibbon