Navigating the Norwegian coast:
Reefer ship Silver Lake passing Yttre Steinsund south bound on a clear summer night:
Hurtigruten M/V Polarlys sailing north bound through Stokksundet in daylight:
Hurtigruten M/V Kong Harald enter Trollfjorden:
PS> This was all in good weather. No fun in a blizzard with zero visibility, or on a dark winter night.
Doha Channel. According to the Sailing Directions the pilot gets on at the approach buoy but he told us he’d get on between 1&2. He got on 10 miles later at the breakwater.
The next couple sets of buoys can be seen a little further out.
I know it is an old thread but hope not too many gets upset.
Coaster Aasheim entering Rekefjord in bad weather 25, Nov, 2024:
Continuation though the narrowest part:
This vessel:
Rekefjord is a main port for stone and aggregates export:
Just north of Bergen is Alverstraumen, a narrow fairway used by coasters as a shortcut on the way north or south on the coast of Vestland county, Norway:
Come for a trip northbound through Alverstraumen:
A longer (and faster) trip seen from the coaster “Roslagen”:
PS> Speed limit is 5 kts. through the narrowest part.
Interesting ships. Carrying your own excavator may come in handy when you center punch some guys garden if you doze off. You could just claim you were there to load some gravel.
Either Western Pioneer or Coastal Transportation up in Alaska and back in the day had essentially an excavator welded to the deck between the two hatches. They swapped the bucket for a hook and unloaded cargo that way. Worked pretty well, I think.
Well, while I appreciate the interest in the history of the trade, as an expert on it, no, this was not the case. Several WP boats had cranes to work cargo as opposed to Ebel-versions of yard-and-stay rig, but these were the two methods in the past.
The Coastal Standard uses a side port elevator now, with a mobile construction crane on deck when the deck cargo warrants it. We drive the crane on deck using the boat’s vehicle ramp
As can be seen here, the excavator is mounted on a low gantry that runs on the hatch coamings:
This is the same vessel when operating as a fish feed carrier (in big bags):
I think it was the Aleut Packer, can’t remember who else-- maybe the Bowfin?, where it looked like they knocked off the tracks and mounted it on a centerline pedestal. It was a crane, sure, but clearly had non-marine origins.
