You can’t beat having your bottom scraped…
The Clean Bottom
Tag: ship repair
The boat on the slip…
Photographs, Video and Stuff
The boat with the hole in it…
Photographs, Video and Stuff
You can’t beat having your bottom scraped…
Cranes, these days, controlled from a radio-control box. Clever stuff!
Please see last post
Doesn’t everyone want a mobile shed? This shed is high above the slipway (next post) at MacDuff Harbour and it is where the chap who controls the winches stands when the pull a boat up the slipway.
Please see the next post
The Bulbous Forefoot or, Bulbous Bow, greatly increases fuel efficiency and the fins help with stability. More about this technology (an American invention) here. The ‘snoot’ shown below belongs to a trawler but most ships are built with bulbous bows these days.
And in mono…
Another boat on the slip at MacDuff Harbour.
The fishing vessel Lilly Oak sits on her cradle on the slip at MacDuff Harbour, Scotland. The slip is a long sloping concrete ramp (image coming soon) used to haul boats out of the water for repair and repainting. The cradle that supports the ships runs on railway lines on the slip.
See a larger version of this image here.
