During my days as an commercial skipper on one of my fathers ships, our RADAR equipment was pretty standard and ARPA and AIS did not exist. Plus...
This video was taken from a Pilotage Mothership. This big boat (Omar) is pretty agile. Stopping distance, acceleration and turn radius, not bad at...
I agree with KIWI. This is a totally different ship. Also Middle East royalty is not really on my radar, I have a different opinion. The original...
I bet, this "Panama Papers" will get one or the other shipping company in even more trouble. And specialized ship operators with only one field of...
There she is, Azzam in dry dock in Dubai [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Her paint has suffered quite a bit, sitting in the dessert sun and blowing sand of...
Nice video! One could think, the two Lürssen cousins wanted to see Omar parade the Weser River up and down in front of their head office (just...
How about this one. I promise, it is not a sailboat and most likely not ment as motor sailer :). [ATTACH] The Garcia Le Trawler GT 54. Btw....
I would suggest, for anybody contemplating about crossing oceans with a smaller power or sailboat or even when planning for a circumnavigation,...
We have a similar but stationary and containerized system (combination of centrifugal cleaning and filtering) for our trucks in the logistics...
That would leave him with an average of 20 Kts SOG. And that with a blow boat! He really would have to make some good speed underway in order to...
As I said before, I had to see her in profile but now in an aerial view is even better. IMHO this is a fascinating design. Finally something new....
Except for some features, like this questionable bow emblem and those very prominent Sat bubbles, I cant really find much negative design features...
I would agree with Capt J except may be for a catamaran. Some bad guys keep saying, the most stable position for a catamaran is upside down :)....
The support vessel Quattroelle Shadow is an old and beaten OSV built by Halter Marine in 1981 as Marsea 12. [ATTACH] After her first live as an...
As I said before Fish, great sense of humour. I promise, I will forward your message :D.
Looks like she is at the Al Mina dry dock area in Dubai. After being in the water for 3 years, especially in the warm waters of the Med and Gulf,...
If it is not a fake AIS signal, she is inbound Dubai at about 10 kts. I am looking forward to know what that means. Either one more floating hotel...
This is not the forum for politics but this statement above has to be answered. I was not talking about little backyard companies which have to...
You mean, one more of those "no sundeck and other open deck spaces" monsters for the middle east fan club :). Do not worry, it will be not that...
Yes, at 0.8 Mach or more and your 13o feet semi displacement or planning boat of whatever make crossing the ocean on the back of a yacht transport...
