Superyachts at the London Olympics

Octopus looks great one of my all time favorite yachts. Eclipse is rumoured to be arriving by Friday, I believe she is also coming from a refit, hope this is true looking forward to seeing her

That is right. I saw her in Barcelona last week and her scafoldings were aready removed. I will upload pics of her soon.

Marinetraffic still shows Eclipse in Barcelona.

London is approximately 2,200 miles from Barcelona which at 22kn will take about 4 days so she will be hard pressed to make it there by Friday.

I will keep my fingers crossed!

There will also be a large contingent of sailing vessels at the Olympics!

Twitter / LondonPortAuth: Further shot of vessels on ...

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The LPA welcoming committee is busy at work!

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And a welcoming committee of a different sort upriver at Henley on Thames preceeds the Olympic Torch.

Streaker disrupts Olympic torch relay in Henley... - YouTube

Thanks Disco,

It looks like they're congregating in the West India Docks main channel just past the locks. One thing I noticed when I was in the UK a couple years ago was that a lot of ports had locks to account for the tidal differences.

Eclipse is still in Barcelona. When you own the largest yacht in the world, you probably like people to admire it, and there is no better stage than the olympics. But with Putin angry at the UK and not attending, it may be politically incorrect for this yacht to be there, getting a lot of attention.

Octopus

Hull paint doesn't look great in this picture I took today in London

Hey Marc,

How close to the Olympic complex can you get by tender from the yachts moored in various locations?

Will you still need to walk any distance from the dock to the complex?

Disco,

Looking at a map, there appears to be three ways to get to the Olympic complex by tender: River Lee, Bowback River and the Waterworks. One should be able to get fairly close. However, it's likely the tenders will drop off the passengers and find somewhere else to wait until they're needed. I suspect it will resemble an aquatic version of Oscar Night with VIPs being dropped off by their tenders.

By the way, Bing Maps appears to be the most up to date, but you have to watch how far you zoom in and what angle to use. This is for the satellite view.

Does she look like this?

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If not do you have a pic?

Does this look like her?

Maritiem Nieuws.nl Zeilschip “EENDRACHT” naar de Olympische Spelen!

The article is saying she is docking at the West India Docks in Canary Wharf which is exactly where Octopus is moored.

She is a pretty remarkable project.

http://www.eendracht.nl/

And here is the video to prove it!!

Island Hopping & De Eendracht - YouTube

Feel the motion of the ocean?