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This is great - Big fat, heavy 68ft Clipper race boat surfs on an enormous wave for ages - Crew start cheering etc They do 27 knots, which is FAST (the surfing action allows a boat to exceed normal limits of displacement, max hull speed etc). Helmsman was on it :)

 
Wtf but cool

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More coke coming across the North Sea

http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...s-cocaine-from-tugboat-in-the-north-sea-10781

The Royal Navy seized cocaine from a tugboat in the North Sea on Thursday following a joint operation between themselves, the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Border Force.

Acting on intelligence supplied by the NCA, the ocean-going tug MV Hamal was intercepted by HMS Somerset and Border Force cutter Valiant around 100 miles east of Scotland.


Read more at http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...at-in-the-north-sea-10781#WpIMiU2PQSvFtTub.99
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Eta: ooh, big tings ah gwan :eek:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-32533478

Cocaine seized from a tug in the North Sea could have been worth more than £500m - believed to be the biggest single class A seizure in the UK.

The Tanzanian-registered Hamal was intercepted by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset and the Border Force cutter Valiant about 100 miles east of Aberdeen on 23 April.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said more than three tonnes of cocaine had now been recovered.
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twentythreedom said:
This is great - Big fat, heavy 68ft Clipper race boat surfs on an enormous wave for ages - Crew start cheering etc They do 27 knots, which is FAST (the surfing action allows a boat to exceed normal limits of displacement, max hull speed etc). Helmsman was on it :)

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Aargh :oops:

THIS is the awesome surfing clip :cool: All the whooping and cheering is fucking great :thumbs:

 
I really ought to make an effort to learn the basics of sailing since I'm hoping to be living in quite a yachty place in 5 years' time ... and it is after all part of my heritage...

The thing is, should I learn the terminology in English, French or Breton ?

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... I'm thinking I might try some online training and build on my experiences of harnessing / battling the wind as a cyclist in a flappy jacket ... :hmm:
 
If you can get to Chichester you can come sailing and I can teach you the basics - genuine offer!

I suggest contacting the RYA - they have various intro / tuition schemes etc, there are numerous free open days at sailing clubs where you can go for a sail and talk to instructors etc - the sailing community are very welcoming :) The French will appreciate it a great deal if you can sail - Bretons especially

Have a google for clubs near you. And what's your yachtie heritage?
 
twentythreedom said:
And what's your yachtie heritage?
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Only in the sense of having been raised in the UK - with so many nautical expressions in the language ... I very briefly considered a career in marine radio ...

...and the prevailing wind brings a whiff of seaweed up as far as Bristol when the tide comes in and I'm being blown home along the tidal Avon ... which is decidedly unfair when the nearest proper sea is 70 miles away.
I'm hoping to make up for it in "retirement".

I suspect I could sign up for some sort of basic training here in Bristol.
 
I had an excellent day's sailing today - 24 degrees and clear blue skies with a 15 kt SE wind. I decided to attach a GoPro to the top of my mast. I did this by the simple expedient of shinning up it. This aroused the ire of the know-it-all cunt (I've found sailing attracts these types like seagulls on a kebab) from the next berth in the marina who was telling me it was dangerous, etc. I was so distracted by telling him to get to fuck that I didn't do a brilliant job of securing the GP and it flew off and ended up in the Indian Ocean on the first jib.
 
I went gig rowing for the first time in years today. Totally changed the way they row the boats. Copied technique off the sliding seat poshos. Feels wrong. Very wrong.
 
That is surely stretching it a bit !

Presumably the large crew suggests everything is still done by hand ?
 
Fucking nuts :eek:

It's not really sailing as we know it, it's flying. The sail is essentially an upright rigid aircraft wing, generating enormous 'lift' (thrust), the foils are basically little wings that generate lift through fluid dynamics, and the whole thing has to be built with aerodynamics in mind due the forces and speeds attainable.

Construction techniques come from aero industry and F1 - it's all highly advanced, very sophisticated and expensive. But cool :cool:
 
Looking forward to seeing some of the real Tall Ships quite soon, and possibly getting aboard "Reaper" next month. My bestest mates are doing a long term refit on a Miller Fifer, which is nearly finished, (re)launch is due in only a few weeks.
 
Bah, enough of these carbon-fibre canoes. What you want is a proper boat, such as a trawling smack:

maxi


I was nattering to the skipper of one of the preserved ones in a pub in Brixham years ago. I asked rather tentatively about why, when I'd been aboard it in the harbour earlier in the day, the bowsprit was broken and the topmast was down on deck.
'Yes,' he said ruefully. 'We were coming back from Poole in a good blow last night. I was trying to get fifteen knots out of her, and I just left the big jib up a bit too long.'
Fifteen knots, in a heavy oak vessel designed for towing a trawl. :cool: Lovely things.

Just one of the Hull sailing trawler fleet - which numbered about 450 at its peak in the 1880s - survives. I'm slightly involved in an attempt to get it back to Hull and have it restored.
 
StoneRoad said:
Looking forward to seeing some of the real Tall Ships quite soon, and possibly getting aboard "Reaper" next month.
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Oh yes. The one I've always had a hankering to go aboard is Krusenstern, just because she's about the last one still working that was actually built as a cargo vessel rather than a training ship. She is a lovely-looking thing too:

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She was originally named Padua, one of the 'Flying P Line.'
 
The best my mate expects out of the Miller will be about 7 knots, but 5 would be more comfortable ... but she's based on a NorthSea herring fisherman's craft.


WR - with NB President par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
And that is about the maximum 10 oars power will get you - keeping up four knots on the Thames was *fun* ...
 
Roadkill said:
Bah, enough of these carbon-fibre canoes. What you want is a proper boat, such as a trawling smack:

maxi


I was nattering to the skipper of one of the preserved ones in a pub in Brixham years ago. I asked rather tentatively about why, when I'd been aboard it in the harbour earlier in the day, the bowsprit was broken and the topmast was down on deck.
'Yes,' he said ruefully. 'We were coming back from Poole in a good blow last night. I was trying to get fifteen knots out of her, and I just left the big jib up a bit too long.'
Fifteen knots, in a heavy oak vessel designed for towing a trawl. :cool: Lovely things.

Just one of the Hull sailing trawler fleet - which numbered about 450 at its peak in the 1880s - survives. I'm slightly involved in an attempt to get it back to Hull and have it restored.
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15kts in that is definitely pushing theoretical max hull speed for a boat like that - they have powerful rigs for towing the trawl, doing 15kts unladen is extremely impressive (even allowing for standard Fisherman's exaggeration). And they manoeuvred those things in and out of port with no engines.

Skillz :cool:
 
twentythreedom said:
15kts in that is definitely pushing theoretical max hull speed for a boat like that - they have powerful rigs for towing the trawl, doing 15kts unladen is extremely impressive (even allowing for standard Fisherman's exaggeration). And they manoeuvred those things in and out of port with no engines.

Skillz :cool:
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Oh aye, the seamanship involved in handling them back in the day was something else. They are lovely things, too: completely functional and purposeful, but beautifully proportioned and very fast.
 
Tut tut, more naughty yachtsmen importing cocaine :hmm:

http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...ne-seized-from-yacht-in-brighton-marina-12100

Cocaine with a potential value of around £480,000 has been seized from a yacht moored at Brighton Marina.

Officers from Border Force first attended the marina on Sunday 19 July and began searching the Tacabanda II, which had sailed to the UK from the Caribbean.

Two crewmen, a 62-year-old from St Lucia and a 29-year-old from Grenada, were arrested on suspicion of importing the drugs after three kilos of cocaine were recovered from the yacht on 20 July.
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Short story (1 of two) - I think it was Krusenstern, but I may have mis-remembered the name.
Anyway, back in the 1990s the Tall Ships Race had a stop-over on the R.Tyne and on the Monday night OH and I went to have a look, we walked up and down admiring the ships. Those masts look very tall from the Quayside. As we approached Krusenstern there was a slight kerfuffle on board and the officer of the watch suddenly appeared, we exchanged salutes but refused the invitation to board ... to explain, we were both in uniform - Royal Observer Corps - which is similar in colour / style to the RAF.
 
Naughty, naughty - more yachtsman importing huge shipments of coke and getting busted

http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...sted-in-17-5-million-cocaine-yacht-bust-12433

An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the seizure of around 70 kilos of cocaine and the arrest of a British man in Australia.

The 58-year-old was one of five men arrested by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australian Border Force (ABF) and Queensland Police Service (QPS) in the Gold Coast area of Queensland on Monday 24 August.

It followed information supplied by the NCA regarding a yacht, the Solay, which had left South America heading towards the South Pacific allegedly transporting a substantial amount of cocaine.

The NCA was working in collaboration with Border Force in the UK’s National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC), the French Customs investigation service DNRED, Irish Tax and Customs and the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre – Narcotics (MAOC-N).

The yacht was tracked as it travelled towards Australia, departing Vanuatu on Saturday 15 August.

After arriving in Queensland it is alleged that the 43-year-old Estonian master and sole occupant of the Solay met the 58-year-old UK national, and both men purchased a number of tools to remove items hidden inside the body of the vessel.

 The two men allegedly left the vessel with duffle bags and travelled by car to another location. A short time later, their car was then met by three other men driving in two vehicles.


Read more at http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachti...-cocaine-yacht-bust-12433#HZjXyFo6y7KG6DCg.99
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