Boats, boats, and more boats

Ahoy! It’s Friday, so time to look at something nice. Please post a picture or two or three of any sort of water-based vessel that impresses you. It could be an historic tall ship, a modern frigate, an RNLI power boat, or even a Great Lakes cargo ship.

It doesn’t matter, so long as it’s a good picture that you like, and you think it will brighten our day.

Was for sale recently,

I grew up with these.

Don’t wrap it, I’ll take it as it is. Alfa Nero.

RRS Discovery

I like sails

http://www.camperandnicholsons.com/luxury-yachts-for-sale/lamima-4405/

but there’s always something to be said for a hot tub

http://www.camperandnicholsons.com/luxury-yachts-for-sale/andiamo-6230/

will be buying one of these tomorrow

I hadn’t realised she had more than 2000hp  no wonder she could sail around, essentially flicking the Vs at the fleet

River Nile, Uganda

broads river cruiser class racing

to see them racing on a narrow broadland river at full chat is a sight to behold

named the class

oyster 655 for when my numbers come up

First ship I sailed on… real rust bucket. But she didn’t miss a beat 10 years up and down the North Atlantic between Quebec and Rotterdam.

Still sail one of these in Cowes Week every year..

The best One Design Sportsboat ever made.. I miss racing these things full chat.. Melges24

Because flat chat in the Southern Ocean is Awesome…

Because this image is just amazing… Fuji Tri off Ushant..

For shits n giggles..

Because the designer changed the ethos and all followed suit.. and because Maxi Cup racing is simply Awesome…

And because my Crusader is sitting in the dinghy park unused…

Great pics, bikebuoy!

Volvo Ocean Race Drone footage by Brunel in the Atlantic..

Every one behind the helm!!! Sydney Hobart, crossing the Bass Strait isn’t for everyone.. I did it in 2006 on a 60ft’er and it was one of the hardest most mentally concentrating challenges I’ve ever done.. it is just relentless and full chat all the way over… cross tides, rips, howling wind, upwind/downwind, full sail and storm jibs all in less than 24hrs.. it has it all this race..

Caledonian Vigilance -supply vessel in North sea, worked on it a few years ago

Every one behind the helm!!!

Why’s’at then? (Serious Q, I know nothing about sailing. I once pushed a Mirror dinghy halfway round Lake Bala with my scouting mate, cos we didn’t know how to sail it back after crossing with the wind behind us)

Keep all the weight in the stern to stop the bow burying itself in the back of the next wave, at full chat the boat slows dramatically and the rig takes all the strain… sometimes a few things snap 😜

Have a look at the footage, you see the guys all behind the helm and you’ll notice the motion of the boat over the waves, certainly the Brunel Drone vid shows this and the S/Hobart vid you get the same descriptive motion..

Can’t post from phone.

That Team Philips cat with two masts that fell apart.

Couldn’t tell you how much I loved this boat as a kid. Still got the framed poster of this picture, and one of me sat on the front in 1988 with Virgin in sodding massive lettering beneath me.

And last one from me..

The Moth, Mike doing what he does best..

Not a boat as such but a lovely thing to have on one.

This weekend I will be sailing (driving?) one of these:-

to here :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/cabrera/@39.1371135,2.9028434,12.98z

I used to sail a Hoby 18 as a kid (google picture, not me)

Used to take it out to jump waves like this, we headed out to play when everybody else was going in, good fun, very wet

On a completey different track, but still a boat

Couldn’t tell you how much I loved this boat as a kid. Still got the framed poster of this picture, and one of me sat on the front in 1988 with Virgin in sodding massive lettering beneath me.

Which is currently moored up in plymouth sound, or at least it was when I went past it a while back.

Just got off a 4 day research cruise in the med, 24m catamaran that corkscrewed like a bitch. Happy to be back on terra firma again.

Oh and the BAR Sunseeker looks like it could be nice.

On a completey different track, but still a boat

Ship.

Oh and the BAR Sunseeker looks like it could be nice.

You mean the princess?

Princess Yachts reveals partnership with BAR Technologies to create technologically advanced new yacht

Tug boat Rozi, Malta

gobuchul – funnily enough I occasionally drive a dive boat with 2 of them.  I love watching the fuel consumption meter and being happy it’s not me paying

funnily enough I occasionally drive a dive boat with 2 of them.

Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

I have their baby brother, a F100 on mine. It’s a superb piece of kit.

Tick it off:

beard

floppy hat

expedition loaded

boof on the upper Tummel

It can only be the legend that is MarkVB….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o94ZHLXzTZM

http://www.maidoftheloch.org/

My folks are helping restore the maid of the loch.   Nearly there!!

Yep. Princess not Sunseeker.

I always think these type of things look like they mean business…

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from

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?231436-Small-boat-pron

on

http://forum.woodenboat.com/forumdisplay.php?5-The-Bilge

Sometimes I miss living on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef…

(Still got the beard and floppy hat though 🙂 )