Worry Free Docking

[Artzco]

Here's a "How To" on docking your large vessel.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/QYltdonj2iE?wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=1

 

[GJH]

I don't remember that one exactly but it certainly looks like my signature style.

 

[jim rosenthal]

What I love is that all the radars are still turning at the end.

This looks like a breakers yard- maybe the ship isn't going to ever move again, but be cut up for scrap. Still kind of weird to see it happen.....

 

[sandspur1966]

Certainly appears to be a breakers yard perhaps in Turkey though? not the famous east indian beaches.

That vessel has an interesting design with those bridge wings hanging out 6-10 feet past the hull sides. I guess they took on faith that she would never need to travel through a tall lock or come abreast of a seawall or ship taller than her.

 

[saltshaker]

What's the purpose for the fire burning? I would think they wouldn't need any aid to determine where to put her.

 

[Artzco]

What's the purpose for the fire burning? I would think they wouldn't need any aid to determine where to put her.

Probably where they were cooking their lunch...

 

[jim rosenthal]

I think when they see it go out, they know they've finished docking. Or something like that. Sort of like parking by ear...

 

[jim rosenthal]

What's even funnier, if you look on YT, what you saw up above was the second attempt. On the first one, they ran into another ship and holed it. I think they finally got it on the second try.

It is a Turkish yard, evidently.

 

[jim rosenthal]

There are a few of these videos and they all seem to have something burning on the beach. Must be a tradition there, or something.

 

[Glory]

I have some boating freinds, and I use the term losely, that think that was a great job of returning back from a boat ride.

JM

 

[krush]

Found this blurb. It's the internet, accuracy not verified:

On the video below you can see how to crash a ferry. The M/F Ostend Spirit also known as the MS Pride of Calais was planned to go for scrap and recycling. Most of the work of the ferry was going back and forth across the English Channel. The time to be scraped had come, the vessel was no longer needed.

Video shows how the M/F Ostend Spirit is arriving in a unique style at the ship breaking yard in Turkey. The vessel will be broken down, piece by piece.

The ferry is intentionally beached because it is easier to demolish a vessel when it is on dry land. This operation has to be normal, but it looks scary. Video below shows how M/F Ostend Spirit was beached between two other wrecks.

Read more at: http://www.vesselfinder.com/news/1797-How-to-beach-a-ferry-MF-Ostend-Spirit
Copyright © Vesselfinder

 

[jim rosenthal]

So that's what a Channel ferry looks like. I've been on a couple, but it was night and I really couldn't see much. BIG ferry.

If you put the ship's name in YT, there are a few of these videos. Interesting and a bit depressing.

 

[Tim Powell]

There is a sigh at Jaret Bay it says

APPROACH YHE DOCK AT THE SPEED YOU WISH TO HIT IT

 

[Seabrooke]

So I HAVE been doing it right!!!