Outstanding vessels

[Guillermo]

The world's largest trimaran:

Nom : Maxi Banque Populaire V
Type : Maxi trimaran océanique
Longueur : 40 m
Largeur : 23 m
Déplacement : 23 t
Tirant d’eau : 5.80 m
Tirant d’air : 45 m

http://www.voile.banquepopulaire.fr/
http://yachtpals.com/banque-populaire-3054

[dougfrolich]

The best of the best
The Big U

The shame is this is the best picture I can find of the old girl.

[lazeyjack]

how are they steering that tri? and wot is the liner , I can not read her name
when I was 4 my mother took us to NY on The Queen Mary
I remember, asking the steward,"how do you clean the eggcups" they were silver
he said " we do not, we send them down the scuttle, there are more where they came from!"" it is my earliest memory

[Guillermo]

Doug,
Here some web pages for the 'Big U':
http://www.ssunitedstates-film.com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States
She was once the fastest ship in the world.

Google Images for 'SS United States', you'll find a wealth of them.

Cheers.

[Guillermo]

Last Friday Queen Elizabeth II visited for a few hours the port of Getxo in north Spain before departuring for Dubai, where she'll lay as a 7 stars hotel. Attached some images from this short visit, sent by a good friend.

She still is the longest, tallest, widest and heaviest passenger ship ever constructed. The ship measures 1138.5 feet (345 meters) long, 135.3 feet (41 meters) wide, 237.6 meters (72 meters) tall, and weighing some 150,000 tonnes. The ship accomodates 2,630 passengers and features five swimming pools, 14 restaurants, 24 massage parlors and an art gallery.


Cheers.

[Guillermo]

Largest ice breaker ever built: the "NS 50 Years Since Victory" a russian nuclear mammoth, designed to break through ice up to 2.8 meters thick.

Owner: Russian Federation
Builder: Baltic Works in Leningrad, USSR/Saint Petersburg, Russia
Yard number: 705
Laid down: October 4, 1989
Launched: 1993
Commissioned: 2007-03-12
Maiden voyage: 2007
Homeport: Murmansk, Russia
Identification: IMO number 9152959
Call sign UGYU
Fate: active in service

Class and type: Ice breaker, Arktika class,
Russian class "KM(*) LL1 [2] A"
Tonnage: 23439 metric tons gross
Displacement: 25840t
Length: 159.60 m (524 ft)
Beam: 30.00 m (28.00 m at the waterline)
Draught: 11.08 m
Depth: 17.2 m
Ice class: LL1
Installed power: 2 27,600 kW (37,012 hp) Nuclear reactors, model "TGG-27,5 OM5"
Propulsion: 3 17,600 kW (23,602 hp) electric propulsion motors
Speed: up to 21.4 knots (39.6 km/h)
Endurance: 4 years
Capacity: 128 passengers
Crew: 140 crew members


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_50_Years_Since_Victory

[lazeyjack]

yes I know about these ships, , after tugs they are my favourite, now the Russians work with Norway to convert to a less weapons friendly grade of Uranium on the fleet of subs and warships, as there is much "mysterious" disappearance of fuel

[StianM]

I love the new aker design

And this one is great

[Guillermo]

Wonderful design!

Skandi Acergy's specs here:
http://www.acergy-group.com/publicroot/webresources/7CGCKXMGIY/$file/Skandi%20Acergy%20Aug%2008.pdf

Cheers.

[Stumble]

I am going to have to go with the entire fleet of Volvo Open 70's. These massive sailing machines are some of the fastest sailboats ever made, able to sustain incredible punishment as they pound through the souther oceans, and reach speeds in excess of 30kn, with a 24 hour run record of 562 nautical miles. Even in light air they scream, able to sail upwind at well over the true wind speed.

For me these are perhaps the best sailboats of all time, since they don't sacrafice the safety factors of many of the fastest boats, while retaining awe inspiring speeds through the worst weather on the planet.

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ph...sson0914/2.jpg

[Guillermo]

Stumble,
here a direct view of the nice image you posted a link to.



Cheers.

[lazeyjack]

Originally Posted by Stumble

I am going to have to go with the entire fleet of Volvo Open 70's. These massive sailing machines are some of the fastest sailboats ever made, able to sustain incredible punishment as they pound through the souther oceans, and reach speeds in excess of 30kn, with a 24 hour run record of 562 nautical miles. Even in light air they scream, able to sail upwind at well over the true wind speed.

For me these are perhaps the best sailboats of all time, since they don't sacrafice the safety factors of many of the fastest boats, while retaining awe inspiring speeds through the worst weather on the planet.

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/ph...sson0914/2.jpg

for me the open 60, because it is more powerful, yet has one very brave and skilled pilot, he or she, are simply in another league

[Guillermo]

Open 60 Cheminées Poujoulat battling for survival in 70 knots of wind.



Cheers.

[lazeyjack]

I had the greatest pleasure and honour to spend time alone talking to whom I consider the worlds greatest sailer, Isa Autissier, that is one awsome pic Guillo
the most astonishing thing is this one in pic is making to weather

[Stumble]

Hmm, open 60 or 70 are both in the same class too me. But there is no doubt the open 60 skippers are due a tremendous amount of respect for soloing these beasts.

But when it comes to off kilter skippers I have to hand it to the guys sailing the Open 6.5 class. Same race course as the Open 60's but much smaller boats.