The awesome boats thread

idk said:
Who is operating these old sailing vessels? Is it private? How many people do you need to operate of of those? Amazing pictures!
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Most of them are operated privately, usually financed by getting booked for company outings or sailing vacations. For instance, you could book trips on these ships for the parade. Paid handsomely, obviously.
There are exceptions, for example the Krusenstern is run by the Russian government as a training vessel. For funding reasons it also takes on passengers though.
As a pricing model, take the Abel Tasman. You can book that for a week with 24 guests for 7725? plus VAT plus other charges such as beer (duh), food, engine over 1h/day, harbour dues, etc etc etc - including taxes you'll easily be around 12k?/week. That's only 500? per person though. A company outing during Kiel Week, 10am to 5pm, up to 60 people, is about 4600? plus VAT plus catering.

They're usually run by only a handful of people, much fewer regular crew than you would expect. Helping to set sails etc. is used as a special event for the guests :D

DanRoM said:
Doesn't she lie at Hamburg harbour usually? I think I've seen a ship with that name there in May.
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:nod: usually you can book her out of Hamburg.
 
Awesome because it's properly quick.




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Some more big ship goodness.









Boats scramble to watch the fireworks.


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How ships are launched: it's like God playing in the bathtub. Scary and fascinating.
 
The Norwegian Coastal Express ships, known as Hurtigruten; a mixture of public transport cruise going up and down the Norwegian coast, regardless of weather. NRK recently did a minute-by-minute broadcoast from one of the ships, earning the record for the worlds longest live broadcast with 134 hours.

From 0:50 there is a short clip from that broadcast...

During winter time, the weather can get pretty tough... The ship is MS Nordnorge, the one they did the live broadcast from...


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The Saga Ruby departing Oslo. Pictures taken from Bygd?y

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The former Vistafjord, sole surviving ship from the Norwegian America Line, after the Saga Rose (former Sagafjord) was scrapped last year. I have to say she is a beautiful ship, classic ocean liner design, although she did one crossing from Oslo to New York, then only cruising according to Wiki...
 
"and for all our serious side, the British have always been rather good at fun."

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Originally he planned to turn it into a tribute to The Beatles? Yellow Submarine but, once the hull had been converted, he discovered that the specialist paint required cost ?4,000 so he opted for black paint, which was much cheaper.
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Linky
 
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No not awesome, both LCS are nothing but fail, lots and lots of expensive, idiotic fail.
 
I think all we got with the LCS-1 was a very expensive jet powered speedboat. There isn't much a current destroyer can't do compared to the LCS-1.
 
Chaos said:
I think all we got with the LCS-1 was a very expensive jet powered speedboat. There isn't much a current destroyer can't do compared to the LCS-1.
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But it's a badass speedboat! :D
 
Speaking of expensive speedboats, I remember this one from my cruise in the Mediterranean last year... And it's quite an extrodinary one. It's an MDV 3000 Jupiter class fast ferry. And fast is a very appropriate description here...

At 11374 GRT it's not as big as the Color Line Super Speed ferries, but it's cruising speed is 40 knots. It can take 460 cars and 1800 passengers. They are some really powerfull beasts, they're powered by a combination of four diesel engines putting out a combined 26000 kw and two gas turbines making a combined 42000 kw. Or a combined 90000 hp if you like that. The gas turbines are connected to two booster water jets while the diesels are connected to the biggest steering water jets ever made.

Italian ferry line Tirrenia has four of these; Taurus, Aries, Capricorn, and Scorpio. Sadly they are all decommissioned, and all of them are except Scorpio are to be scrapped this year, according to this wiki page. (In Italian)

Two more of my pictures of the Scorpio:

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The Italians have this strange, inexplicable desire to build things that are faster and more powerful than most other things out there.
 
Chaos said:
The Italians have this strange, inexplicable desire to build things that are faster and more powerful than most other things out there.
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Yes, and realizing just a few years down the road (or the sea...) that the economics of said thing just don't add up... :p
 
Boat-related contend.

Please note the course this ferry is taking towards this slowly moving cruizeship ...

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From my perspective, it looked like the ferry literally passed the cruizeship within 5 meters at the bow in the end ... and it looked a lot like it would crash into it on the way to it ... maybe the ferry captain had trouble remebering who?s right of way it is :clarkson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Empress
 
Interrobang said:
From my perspective, it looked like the ferry literally passed the cruizeship within 5 meters at the bow in the end ... and it looked a lot like it would crash into it on the way to it ... maybe the ferry captain had trouble remebering who?s right of way it is :clarkson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Empress
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Yes, basically the rules are that the biggest ship has the right of way. Lot's of small boats in Oslo (usually piloted by rich kids and/or their parents) don't realize this, which results in an angry blast of the cruise ship's horn, or an angry call if the boat has a radio. Though it seems here that everything is right, the ferry is clearly heading towards the moving cruise ship's stern (rear end), not bow (front).

The ship there, MS Empress, is the former Nordic Empress of the RCI. Pullmantur Cruises, which operates her, are owned by RCI, so they have a few ex RCI ships in their fleet, most well known is the MS Sovereign, former Sovereign of the Seas:

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Speaking of cruise ships, here is a shot of Port Lauderdale from Google Earth, now this is properly conveying the size of the Oasis of the seas, compared to other large cruise ships...
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