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Occasionally we see the blades being transported along the nearby motorway. They're massive.

Yep, huge is an understatement. After modifying the roundabout, they brought some along the road outside the workshop a year or two back ...


TiG - turbine blade A69 par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

Robin Rigg wind farm is the nearest to where I do most of my boating (at least, it was, before before covid). It's on the horizon of this one, I'm not sure I've got a better one.


MFW - sargasso of the solway par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
 
What can happen?
Strong currents could smack you into the column base and "stick" you to it [as per pilot boat against a tanker or similar]. Most of the local yacht auxiliary engines would not have enough power to move away, as they are only really meant for berthing in the marina. At least, that's what one of the skippers said to me when I asked.

The currents around Robin Rigg have meant at least one turbine has had to be removed because of tidal scour removing sand/silt and undermining the base.
 
Strong currents could smack you into the column base and "stick" you to it [as per pilot boat against a tanker or similar]. Most of the local yacht auxiliary engines would not have enough power to move away, as they are only really meant for berthing in the marina. At least, that's what one of the skippers said to me when I asked.

The currents around Robin Rigg have meant at least one turbine has had to be removed because of tidal scour removing sand/silt and undermining the base.
The sea tends to go around the monopiles. I think you’d have to try pretty hard to get stuck to one. A structure where the current can pass underneath is different. There are good reasons to keep well away, but getting sucked into one like some wild whirlpool I think is a bit over dramatic. People do manage to collide with them occasionally, probably as the seem like a nice waypoint to put in the GPS.
 
The sea tends to go around the monopiles. I think you’d have to try pretty hard to get stuck to one. A structure where the current can pass underneath is different. There are good reasons to keep well away, but getting sucked into one like some wild whirlpool I think is a bit over dramatic. People do manage to collide with them occasionally, probably as the seem like a nice waypoint to put in the GPS.
I'm told that one of our local wide boys got a m/boat "stuck" in this way a couple of years ago.
When I queried the avoid it label on the chart - it's smack in the middle of a potential route - this problem of possibly getting "stuck" was described ... apart from them not wanting boats hanging around, perhaps they see them as a security risk ?
 
Over in Whitby, the harbour's dedgings are removed by a barge called "Sandsend" ...

One day, I was out in Mary Ann Hepworth, when the skipper of Sandsend announced over the marine band radio that he was on his way out (bascially approaching the narrow section of the harbour piers) but the incoming tide was stemming his progress somewhat, boats were advised to stay clear until he was over the harbour bar.
We more or less hove to and waited, but the idiot running the trip boat "Velocity" went into the harbour (at speed !) and almost smashed into Sandsend's bows. I was already powering MAH up to go and assist when it was clear that he had avoided disaster by the slimmest of margins - his wake had splashed up onto the barge.
There was a cacophony of comments, and I'm sure complaints to the harbour master - one of the other boats waiting had two lifeboat crew on board and they were most un-impressed about it when I saw them in the pub that night. Some friends were on the piers and heard the passengers screaming !
Funnily enough, "Velocity" developed some sporadic engine trouble for the next couple of weeks ... and then the guy operating it took it to Scarborough or somewhere.
 
They should do like they do with abandoned luggage and sell the sealed containers in a blind auction... see if you end up with ten thousand pairs of trainers, half a million lego pieces, or two hundred gazebos :cool:
 
They should do like they do with abandoned luggage and sell the sealed containers in a blind auction... see if you end up with ten thousand pairs of trainers, half a million lego pieces, or two hundred gazebos :cool:
Probably win a container of rotten dates.
 
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