Around England in a super tanker?
 

Around england in the worlds biggest super tanker sound mad ?

You know me i am mad :D and yes im going to try it see how this virtual sailor realy works, and also get to grips with ship handeling and control, as one day i do desire to take command of a ship (hope fully no of this scale).

My planned route will take me from liverpool down to cornwall then through the english channel and up the north sea to scotland, now the ship is too big to go through most of the shallow channels so i got to go around.

After i round scotland il come back to liverpool where the journey will end.

I start now at thursday 2nd February at 2230GMT and i hope to finnish on the 8th February so a week to do that entire trip think i can do it ?

Explination of madness! i have alot of free time over the next few weeks ao i got nothing else to do apart from well toil and bordem so i just though do something out of the ordinary.


The ship im controlling:

Builder Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Oppama Shipyard
Propulsion Sumito Stal-Laval AP Turbine, 50.000 PS by 85 RPM
Length 458.45 meters
Beam 68.86 meters
Draft 24.61 meters
DWT: 564,763
Cubic: 658,362
Speed 13.00 knots

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...e-viking-2.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...e-viking-3.jpg

Will there even be enough depth under keel for this thing? :o

yes lol i planned it in all of what 20 mins :D and yeah plenty just got to be careful in the dover straight thats going to be the trikeyst big especialy with ferries all over ;) :up:

Now if only I could do a cruise on my U-boat on an intersecting course around that time :rotfl:

also going to post some screenshots of the trip i have three already here they are:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...mthebridge.jpg

A view from the bridge, this is the bridge im standing on in command of Jahre viking for this trip

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...bridgewing.jpg

Looking forward on the bridge wing of jahre viking steaming along at 15.5 knots.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...thehugebow.jpg

To give you some scop in what i am commanding this is it the Jahre vikings big bow from the water line, oh theres more underneath too !!!!

Whats the game called.

virtual sailor 7.0 www.hangsim.com/vs

Another view of the impressive ship some realy good detail has gone into this ship and the guy who made it must have spent a very long timecreating this wonderful ship.

Ok we have been at sea for almost two hours now and ive made two turns without auto pilot, so how did i find the ship?
Well she handels like a semi with flat tyres doing around 5mph with a turning circle the size of downtown manhattan, she isnt very fast infact the fastest ive gone so far is 15.5 knots.

The detail is excellent i love the deck features the aft features even the life boats weathering and name,

Issues?

Monovering is a big one this thing isnt exactly the harbour tug infact it takes me around 10 miles to do a 360 (tried it earlier) which means the most dangerous part of the voyage the english channel and dover straight i may need a tug.

What the overall view ?

I like this ship very much highly detailed and about accurate on speed and turning ect.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...lookingaft.jpg
Here is a view of the deck the 1,500 foot long deck! showing some excellent detail.

Will i change my mind on the ship?

No i dont think so but im unsure yet

well that demo didnt let me really do anything. I didnt even have time to look at all the buttons on top when winodw popped up saying that my demo time expired and the program would close in 20 or so seconds. Not to mention my anti-virus blocked several trojans from the site and had to delete an infected file right after i installed it.

In any case, I still would like to try out that sim ;) :lol:

The demo isnt very good i must admit it was only a post from mike hence i think that changed my mind, it is well worth the investment i assure you im playing it now as i speak.


Also depends in you taste of ship theres all kinds warships submarines merchant fishing recreational tugs and others including a bath i think

I don't think the ferries are going to be much of a match for it :lost: ;) .

There's going to be hell to pay if you run into the coast in it though :) .

is there any way of "modding" the demo to not close? :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4675464.stm

Just don't head east. :huh:

http://www.uscgalaska.com/clients/c780/50412.jpg

http://www.uscgresponds.com/clients/1085/50408.jpg

lol oberon.

After almost eight hours of sailing im now off the middle cosat of wales heading due south for lands end cornwall, heading at top speed of 15.5 knots, already passed one bouy but i was asleep at the time.