Anyone here into boat/yachts , the ocean and stuff?

Ha-ha. Whenever I am on a ship, I spend all my time playing with the engines.
On one occasion, the crew who did not speak very good English, assumed by the way that I was walking around and questioning certain settings that I was from the company who owned the ship. It as 12 hours of endless fun.

 

I'd go sailboat. Live aboard. Sail for nearly free across the globe. Slow and in tune with the world.

Say like a 35 footer. Big enough to have electronics and some decent living space. But easy to manage and can get into pretty much any port.

 

had one once. never went further then accross the sound and around lake union up in seattle which was where and when sometime around 1975.

i'm more of a forest person then an ocean person. not sure how i got talked into it. but every form of mechanical transportation other then the car is of at least some interest to me.
my dad used to dream about such things and subscribed to yacht and the kalimback ships and the sea.

well mine was a little (22ft i think it was) converted life boat hull with a four cylander ambient water cooled buddah, with a cracked head.
nothing fancy. really basic cabin with a couple of crude bunks. storage under them, hand pumped bilge pump.
highly illegal direct flush head too. lol.

i did like sleeping on board though, i found the gentle wave action at the moorage, which was next to dillingham tug, very relaxing, and the moorage fee was way less then renting an apartment would have been.

 

I Say "Fake"......I Did Not Spot One Drop Of Oil On The Floor......



Cheers Glen.

 

Just Watched Another Video.....This Time "Maersk EEE Class".....Still Can't See Any Oil....



Cheers Glen.

 

I went below decks on a chartered Polish ferry once and it resembled a coal mine. The oil/water sludge was ankle deep in places and lube oil was running down the engines.
Since these ships can have 1,000 gallons of lube oil, it it cleaned and purified, keeping it looking like whiskey. This ships oil was more like tar.
A few months later, the foul bilge pressurization system failed, allowing displacement gasses back up into the cabins. 2 passengers died and the ship went back to Poland. It was headline news at the time (mid 1980s).

That youtube video was of a new ship, but most European ships have a similar standard of cleanliness. The engineers spend most of their time cleaning.

 

I have just found a video of the ships in question.

The MV Innisfallen was the ship that crossed from Swansey to Cork, an 11 hour crossing. At 1:29, you can see the original. It was sold and allowed to rot 3:33, 3:44. It was replaced by the MV Connaught, but the ship was built in Ireland and full of technical problems. It had 4 engines at the front to allow additional car decks. 2 combining boxes fed the drive to the props via 2 shafts that ran the entire length of the ship. The design was crazy, since the bearings were equidistant due to the bulkheads and the shafts went into simple harmonic mode distortion. I always think that this was the ship that sent B&I into receivership.
A few years later, group of Cork businessmen set up Swansey Cork ferries and chartered the Innisfallen back from Greece for 2 years. The following year they got hold of the Polish rust bucket which I mentioned before. Needless to say, the company was shut down and the owners prosecuted for failing to maintain safety standards.

 

You weren't stupid . I still spend all the time in the ocean, if the boat is working. But my boat often breaks down and I pay a lot of money to fix it. Certainly not as much money as here, but still difficult .

 

So......Has The Fun Started Yet.......Or Are You Still Tied To The Dock....???...



Cheers Glen.

 

still tied to the dock...

hopefully it will be good to go by next summer.