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You guys like boats? I love boats! Especially commercial shipping. My office overlooks the Chicago River, one of the only waterways connecting the great lakes with the Mississippi River. When I'm not busy doing my job, I like to take pictures of barges as they go past (I'm also fascinated by the draw bridges when they open for the sailboat migrations). I run http://chicagoriverbargetraffic.tumblr.com/ . Some of my favorites:  The sailboats are waiting for the Roosevelt St. Bridge to open. They're heading inland for the winter. The barge is almost certainly taking dirt to the construction site where they're expanding the Chicago Riverwalk.  Tug pushing three wooden "houses" into town for the Chicago Fire Festival. It was a bit of a boondoggle, as they let the houses sit out in the rain before they tried burning them down.  A few days later, going back downriver. A coworker commented, "I heard there were spectacular technical difficulties."  Empty barge heading downriver. Again, almost certainly related to the riverwalk construction project.  It's adorable! 
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Nov 25, 2014 16:56
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crutt posted:If anyone has any questions about being a merchant sailor, or tug boats, or harbor assist tugs in the port of Los Angeles I'm your guy! I want to know everything and see hundreds of pictures. Honestly, I love watching tugs pushing barges up and downriver here. Are you working on the same size tugs?
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I feel like, if you're putting a rotary in a boat, you're doing it more for fun and top speeds, accepting that you're going to have to rebuild it every now and then (probably after paying a buddy a case of beer to tow you back to the marina).
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Aug 10, 2016 20:41
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CommieGIR posted:Except the speeds a rotary turns at, in THAT style boat, is more just a recipe for cavitation damage to the prop. I feel like, if you're putting a rotary in a boat, you probably understand boats about as well as I do and are willing to accept some expensive lessons in practical fluid dynamics.
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My wife used to babysit for this lesbian couple who had two young kids and a Bernese, and she was the best guard dog. She didn't recognize my scent (or the scent of any man, to be honest), and while she was never violent, she was very wary about me. Lots of barking and watching.
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I got to go out on a little boat for a work thing over the weekend. They were taking on about 5000 tonnes of ore at a dinky port in Norway (out of something like a 56,000 tonne capacity). Because of various factors, they didn't get in until 2:00 AM. A coworker and I got on the ship around 2:30, and had until 7 to install and configure some equipment before they had to go. This was our first install on this company's ships, so there was a lot to discover about how their bridge is laid out, their network topology, etc. We took a trip down to the engine control room, but the only picture I got was of a configuration screen with an IP address on a piece of equipment down there.  The bridge. I didn't play with the binoculars even though I wanted to    
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I'm happy your puddle duck is coming together! I got some time on a boat the other week.  They were doing a little bit of engine work.  vvv Video vvv  ^^^ Video ^^^ I tried to talk them into letting me take it for a spin, but they weren't having it. 
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FrozenVent posted:Did you ask them what happened to their old steam boat? I got the sense El Faro was not a lightly discussed subject. A lot of crew had "El Faro 33" stickers memorializing their coworkers, and the safety briefings were more in depth than any other ship I've been on.
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Jul 6, 2018 13:41
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Popete posted:What in the world is going on with all these hyper advanced war ships equipped with sonar/radar and whatever else not being able to avoid gigantic tankers? If I recall correctly, the two recent American examples were largely blamed on poor user interfaces and human factors. The example I remember cited crewmember fatigue and the user interface not making it clear which crewman was controlling the throttle and which was controlling the steering.
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Nov 14, 2018 01:22
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M/T Pacific Azur, near New Orleans
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JointHorse posted:Speaking of water and sinking feeling, here's an appropriate video: I'm enjoying this tremendously.
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Oct 6, 2019 04:58
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Neslepaks posted:I was just informed it should arrive in Oslo on 16 May. I'm curious, are they gonna truck it there or sail it?
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Neslepaks posted:
Just in time to grab some ice cream cones and pølse and celebrate 17. Mai. Gratulerer med dagen!
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May 17, 2020 18:31
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monsterzero posted:I'm putting my boat in a slip for the first time next week. Up until this point I've gotten by with carabiners on the cockpit locker and companionway hasps, but my marina is in the heart of California's meth-belt so I'm thinking locks might be a good idea. It's a little expensive, but an Abus 180/50 brass combination padlock will keep honest people honest and not rust solid if you're near the sea.
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May 26, 2020 16:08
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What's the draft on that boat? Also -- I guess you have to swim to get back on board?
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Jul 15, 2020 16:32
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Neslepaks posted:1m to tip of prop. Theres a ladder integrated in the bow spit so even my wife gets on and off easily when moored bow-to as we do up here Maybe my sense of scale is all messed up. it looks like the bottom of the ladder is very far off the ground to me.
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Jul 15, 2020 19:09
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I think the ladder's just really narrow and that's confusing me. An adult is roughly twice the height of the railing up front? That's a reasonable climb.
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Jul 16, 2020 05:15
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Neslepaks posted:Update: I think the bulk of the herd is further south now, conditions are slightly less impossible. Currently in Tønsberg weathering some rain days. Is your long term plan to just cruise around in Oslofjorden, or do you want to do any long distance trips?
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Jul 27, 2020 02:12
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Bremen posted:if I didn't go overboard. Yes, going overboard is generally considered bad. quote:
I'm 33 and I've never sailed before either. My plan is to start taking lessons this spring. How Hard Could It Be?™ This idiot sailed from LA to Hawaii on a $10k-ish boat, sold that, bought another $10k-ish boat, and sailed from Florida to Maine and back, mostly solo. He's got some good videos of finding and hiking on uninhabited islands up in Maine. I don't know how to judge him as a sailor, but he seems to be able to get by. As a real adult in your thirties/forties, you could probably afford to get a bigger/nicer boat without straying into quarter million dollar territories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbvo1dO3qPY
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quote:46 U.S. Code § 2304 - Duty to provide assistance at sea There's no duty to not ridicule the bigoted fucks that you just plucked out of the water though.
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I'm curious about a sailboat accessory, and unfortunately I don't know what it's called, nor did I take a picture. My sailing school owns almost exclusively old J/24s. On one of them, either side of the companionway, there is a 2" circular hole cut in the fiberglass. They're normally closed with a threaded cap. When you remove the cap, there's like a 8" long nylon bag that's been designed to fit exactly in the hole that protrudes into the cabin. These bags are removable. Does anyone have any idea what these are? I've been using it as a place to store the winch handle.
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monsterzero posted:Uh, something like this: Yeah, almost exactly. I guess it's just a waterproof place to put stuff. Thanks!
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I've decided it's time to TheFluff posted:I've been wanting a tachometer for the ol' iron spinnaker for a while, but haven't really gotten around to it. I could just buy a cheap and cheerful Chinese adjustable tach and hook it up to the alternator like a reasonable person, but where's the fun in that? Today though I found an old original Volvo Penta branded VDO tach at a flea market for next to nothing, and of course I had to buy it. It's not original to my engine, it seems to have been made for the TAMD40A and variants, but still it's got the proper vintage look. It seems though that this thing was made to be used with a tach sender attached to some kind of fuel pump crank or something, not the alternator, because it's marked "inductive" and "165000 imp/min". Since it's a 5000 rpm tach I interpret that as 165000/5000 = 33 pulses per engine revolution, which is far higher than what my alternator is cranking out (6 pulses/revolution and it runs about 2,2x the engine rpm IIRC). You might have luck in the electronics thread in HCC, here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2734977 . My first instinct is that a pulse frequency converter circuit is *probably possible*, but might get weird. You'd probably have better luck reading your alternator pulses via Arduino, doing some math, and then outputting an appropriate rate of pulses to the VDO tach.
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Neslepaks posted:Greetings from Arendal! Still a handsome yacht!
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I went sailing last night and got the most seasick I've ever been. Threw up overboard, and threw up again once I got back on land. I blame the sketchy (but delicious!) sandwich I had for lunch.
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When you're on a long cruising vacation like that, does your family stay onboard, or do you get a hotel every few days so you can sleep in a non-moving bed?
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Jul 27, 2021 20:59
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Why can't you just direct drive the screw from the electric motor in this application?
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Aug 10, 2021 04:23
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occluded posted:I’m on a sail training week and one of the guys is super young and literally will only talk about girls and shagging. It’s infected the other three guys on board including the instructor, and, like, banter is ok but I can’t wait to be off the boy boat so I don’t have to listen to them compare tit sizes of all the danish birds they’ve etc etc etc. Not all crew overboard recoveries have to be successful.
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Kenshin posted:Also have done plenty of daysailing on Puget Sound through a local sailing club. Which sailing club? I'm relocating to Seattle next year, and I'm looking for a good one. I've found Seattle Sailing Club, and they seem cool, but I'd love any recommendations you have.
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Karma Comedian posted:If all goes well, tomorrow will be the first time Salty Spray has sailed in my possession. Happy New Boat Day!!
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Hadlock posted:I would not be selling the boat if it were affordable to move it cross country Just take it down to Panama and through the canal. What could go wrong?
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Erwin posted:They freed the Ever Forward (has been stuck in the Chesapeake outside of Baltimore for over a month) and moved it to Norfolk today. I was hoping to get the boat in the water before they moved it because we’d be able to see it from where we sail. Bummer. With the luck Evergreen Marine has been having, you'll have another chance soon.
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Pham Nuwen posted:More to the point, I don't actually know how to sail yet You'll figure it out pretty quick if you want to make it home.
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Look out Puget Sound! Seattle Sailing Club says I can rent a sailboat whenever I want!  I think somebody in this thread pointed me toward them. Thanks! They seem like a great club!
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Pham Nuwen posted:definitely eager to get on a boat with this guy Better than the "We're gonna run our engine and rent cars at ports, so don't sign up if you're an enviro-wacko" guy I saw once.
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On Sunday, I rented a C&C 27 with some friends and we did a round trip from Seattle to Suquamish for lunch. Each leg is about 6.5 nm as the crow flies. Wind was about 12-13 kts out of the north. I forgot to record my track on the way back, but it's essentially the same straight line. On the way back, just as we were entering the traffic separation zone from the west, two cruise ships popped out of Elliott Bay. We were making about 5-6 kts on a broad reach (the boat's hull speed is a leisurely 6.1 kts), so I figured we'd have ample time to pass in front of the lead cruise ship. Those suckers are fast. It was on us surprisingly quickly. It sounded one long blast, I guess to indicate "hey, wake up tiny sailboat". We gybed and sailed south until both ships passed us. In retrospect, I looked up the ship's name on Marine Traffic when it came into view. I should have also checked its speed, and probably also should have called them up on the VHF when it started being questionable if we'd make it out of the traffic separation zone in time.
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Hadlock posted:
Back in New York Harbor, I got to watch the Staten Island Ferry give five short blasts to a group of jet skiers who were screwing around in its path. Definitely something you want to avoid.
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Pham Nuwen posted:
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