All Things Boats, Ships, Yachts, Skiffs, Dinghies...

A canaler! nice. where you based? they have those for rent on the Erie canal in upstate NY.

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Saw her up close a few years ago in Tahiti on my training cruise.

<--- Cal Maritime grad.

cal maritime. nice. my kid goes to ny maritime. Fort Schyler.

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Our second home just before we had the name/port added. At Brickyard Cove in Richmond CA:

She's pretty!
What's her name?
Why is the wheel covered?

-Simon

M/Y Luna is in North Vancouver, and it is 115 meters and is currently owned by Mr. Abramovitch. He also owns Eclipse; the worlds largest yacht. It's 165 meters.

Oh, and you need two helipads, so that you don't have to hover in yours while guests arrive in theirs. Common courtesy. That and typically the forward helipad is where the service work is done. The helipad that is mid ships is usually off the deck of the owners stateroom.

I'll put up some pics later of Luna and a few others in a minute.

Yep, Abramovitch came to Hvar last month.

He took Eclipse.

One that roll its guts out in any kind of a beam sea.

Ahhh finally! Leeboards! I have been to the end of the internet and back trying to figure out what these things were since returning home from Amsterdam in July. I owned a 72 Grampian 30 sailboat on the Potomac for 5 years, and have done some chartering down in the Caribbean. I thought I knew quite a bit about sailboats, but for the life of me I could not figure out what these "fins" were on a majority of the canal boats in Amsterdam. Stumbled across this thread today and there they were! Go figure that I find the answer on a motorcycle forum . Thanks guys!

I'll beat you to the Luna....going into Vancouver a couple months back. Sure was moving fast compared to our old pot at 11 Knots.

Very Nice ... I could definitely see myself and wife full timing on one of those. We were over in Hertford visiting family a few weeks back and paid a visit to one of the canals.

Some wheels have leather covers on the rim, there is also a compass just
above the wheels shaft and possibly some electronic displays as well.

This is one of the shrouds from the boat that I raced on this past Sat. in steady 15 knots gusting into the 20's.

Could have gotten unpleasant if we hadn't seen it before it parted completely.

Thanks for the reply, common sense really!

That's a nasty looking fray.

I'm glad it held on, could have been a disaster. Is there just one shroud or are they doubled up on a yacht?

My only experience is dinghy racing (a third and a fourth this weekend, crewing. Light breezes and beautiful autumn sunshine!) where there is just one shroud each side of the mast and sometimes a forestay.

Happy sailing!

-Simon

You're welcome, these boats have an upper and lower shroud on each side, 1 forestay and 1 backstay.

This boat, (edit) they look very big in this picture for some reason, they are only 5/32" wire

Thanks, nice shot - great to see smiles!

Some sailors take it VERY SERIOUSLY

-Simon

And 99 percent only race for beer and trophies.

Same kind of boat at the World Championships in 2004 in Annapolis, MD.

Not my picture but I believe we may be the boat on the left, I got to watch the whole thing unfold, shit happens

Wanted to share this pic of our boat down in the bahamas. I thought it was a unique angle.



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Bringing in and docking 750' car carrier in NY. 5500hp tractor tug assisting.


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925 x131 Canada Express. Drawing 39'


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