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Sailing a boat under a bridge - GIF and video
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How do they right the boat after motoring under the bridge? I doubt they have ballast tanks and, even if they did, couldn't transfer that quickly.
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It looks like they pulled the weights inboard so the craft rights itself, its a shame we dont get to see how they swung them out in the first place. It takes a lot of confidence to pull a manoeuvrer like that.
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Originally Posted by
olderdan
It looks like they pulled the weights inboard so the craft rights itself, its a shame we dont get to see how they swung them out in the first place. It takes a lot of confidence to pull a manoeuvrer like that.
OK, I missed that. If you look really, really closely you can see the lines attached to the bottom of the weights. These must be what they use to retrieve the weights. As you say, it takes a lot of sailing expertise to perform such a maneuver.
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They are possibly water bags. Secure bags to a mast top rope, dangle over the side, fill with a hose or bucket, (or just dip them), hoist bags slowly when full and they should give the required list if you got the calculations right. On completion, haul bags inboard and spill water on deck.
This is a well thought out maneuver but this yacht is not 'sailing' under the bridge, it is 'motoring'.
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Here's a fail of a boat under a bridge. The mast breaks once about midway up, and then either breaks or detaches at the deck. Is this the correct designed failure for the mast?
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The best failure mode would be for it to break in such a way as to land on the head of any boat driver dumb enough to sail under a descending lift bridge.
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mklotz
The best failure mode would be for it to break in such a way as to land on the head of any boat driver dumb enough to sail under a descending lift bridge.
Evidence of a common nautical failure "Failure to maintain a proper forward watch". Often coupled with a case of too much money, or it being collected too easily.
How does one take the helm unaware proper info on his draft, mast height and periodic tide? I'd guarantee bridge supports are marked for any tide that harbor receives.
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A very expensive day. Gives meaning to BOAT (Break Out Another Thousand).
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The same quality of people would be the one who try to outrun the RR crossing arms as they are descending their judgement is clouded by the incurable disease of stupidity.
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Very nice, even if he did poke a few faces on the way down.
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Jon
Very nice, even if he did poke a few faces on the way down.
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wonder how they would go if the tide was in. Wonder how it floated with all those people aboard & so so shallow.
must have a very flat bottom and no keel.
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Actually that is funny, stupidity a work again but funny.
Ralph
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Not as quick and agile as she thought she was :rofl::rofl:
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but she saw it in the movies.
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"Oh, it's really low today..."
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Actually it should say"really high today"!
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Time to start pumping water into the boat...
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Either that or let the tyres down!
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Obviously not a sailboat.
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Looks like they are going to get a "crash" course in removing the steering wheel
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old kodger
Looks like they are going to get a "crash" course in removing the steering wheel
They had probably driven under it the day before but the lake level rose. Once on Lake Fork here in Texas we moved our barge to a different section of the lake by going under the 515 bridge a few weeks later when it was time to return the only way we could get it under the bridge was to disassemble some of the equipment but the lake had only risen a couple of feet
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Failure point is at the weakened mast point. Notice what appears to be a deck light just below the spreader. With that much force, it was going to break somewhere, but whatever is mounted below the spreader weakened the maks.
As for the leaning boat, not a safe way to travel. Either lower the mast to go under, or don't go there with such a tall mast. This is not an example good boating skills. It is an example of being lucky, not smart. The true boater would go somewhere else.
