Setting sail once more

[Kapitan]

Got a whole week to myself and so im going to do a shortish voyage with jahre viking taking her from a island off of the netherlands to rekjavick in iceland should take 4 days if nothing goes wrong.

Set sail 1530 today 21st august 2006 and hope to arrive 25th august 2006 around 1900 again depending on weather and what ever else happens.

The ship is docked off the coast of the netherlands co ordinates being (49:28:47N / 07:05:50E).

The tug smitt rotterdam will be escorting us out of the harbour so i dont run aground, the voyage is plain sailing i hope folowing up the english coast then round the outer hebrides then to iceland.

Updates will happen every so often so stay tuned.

[Kapitan]

Ok left port almost 20 minuets ago, straight out then turn 180 degrees to go the right way aided by a tug which is struggeling as we speak.

At 1620 im due to rendevous with another tanker and see what goes on but heres some shots of the departure.


Just before we left


Taking the strain smit rotterdam giving it all she has got, its not easy pulling half a million tonnes on your own!


The standby / stearing tug making a hash of things by acctualy getting in the way (crossed my bow !)


Starting my turn obviously with the aid of the tug


This is just seconds before i turn my rudder to sMore to come soon tart the turn, note the rudder is the size of a house !

More to come soon !

[Kapitan]

Arrived late at the rondevous with the tanker texacon ment to arrive not long after i left port 1620 well its now 1720 im a full hour late, i hope it doesnt have a knock on effect and i should make the hour up providing it isnt a bad crossing.


Approaching the tanker, along its port side


The tanker from the bow view


The tanker beside me is 885feet long and its still like little and large !

[tycho102]

Kaptain, do you give radio commands to the tug? Or do you have to actually drive the boat yourself? Does it simulate damage that would occur if you collided with the push-zone too fast?

What about the tow lines. What kind of simulation goes behind getting those hooked up? Do you drag the rope from the tug to the boat and then there's just a 20-minute wait until it's hooked up? Or do you have to actually fire the shotgun and get the stringers back and forth?

And how about crew stuff-ups? Do you find the engineer passed out behind the boiler control panel with an oil can full of bourbon?

[TteFAboB]

There's natural disaster written all over those last few screenshots!

Gigantic single-hull tanker touching and bumping another tanker. Wait untill they add oil leaking to the simulator.

What version of virtual sailor is that? And where did you download those HUGE ships? Do you know if anyone has made a good 'cigarette' type speed boat?

[Kapitan]

1 no i have to drive the tugs manualy unless i set waypoints and then push auto pilot which works most of the time but not all.

2 depending on the size of the ship if you collide the smaller one will normal sink in this case i can ram any ship and not sink.

3 note the two tankers are a good 6 feet apart and the wont collide because (A) they are not moving (B) both heading in the exact same direction

4 this is virtual sailor 7

5 i got these two ships from www.virtual-sailor.netunder downloads then transport then tankers

6 damage i can sink capsize ram damage isnt realy modelled well in the game its nothing like DW

7 have a look for yourself plenty of links out there.

8 i dont have a crew one man band :|

9 my oil wont leak havnt you noted im only half loaded, if i was fully loaded i wouldnt even be able to get 20 miles off the coast of the netherlands.

10 time for an update



At 1835 jahre viking making average 15 knots over took the LNG Tanker Marmarer she was just wallowing there doing nothing realy very slow speed 4 or 5 knots at the most probably waiting to go into port, here is my view from my bridge.

Aren't you working that throttle a little hard? 100% :hmm: Seems excessive for just heading out to sea.

[Kapitan]

I will slam down full ahead untill i reach 2 knots if im leaving port then pull it down to around 10% reason is if i hit something i could rebound back and not have the power to stop myself hitting the wall behind me.

plus the one you see 100% on is me maxing the engines to over take the LNG tanker, right now the engines are sitting happy hat around 75% and im still doing 15.5 knots so it isnt that bad

Also i think the only vessel that had 100% throttle on all the time was the smitt rotterdam i aided the tug but cant do much and she was realy struggeling to get me moving so i put on full power to start off with.


Just sailing along peace and quiet 15.7 knots here night is coming and all is going well although the water is getting a bit shallow im nearing the english coast line.

Cool. It is a really neat sim!!

[Kapitan]

It is to a point its nothing like DW not in same leauge its old too but the veriaty of vessels you have is just great i must have around 60 diffrent ships however the quality of some ships are poor but some are realy good.

Jahre viking is one of the better quality ships in terms of detail and accuracy, however it will never ever be in the leauge of SH3 or DW its just too old a good sim but old.

Originally Posted by Kapitan

It is to a point its nothing like DW not in same leauge its old too but the veriaty of vessels you have is just great i must have around 60 diffrent ships however the quality of some ships are poor but some are realy good.

Jahre viking is one of the better quality ships in terms of detail and accuracy, however it will never ever be in the leauge of SH3 or DW its just too old a good sim but old.

I thought some group was going to put together a much better graphics and physics engine for it. Did that ever come about, do you know?

[Kapitan]

Think that was VS 6.8 to VS 7.0 and the VS 7.0 is alot better than 6.8 or indeed even the 5.2 series! its come along long way.

NEWS FLASH


At 2137 this evening the ultra large crude carrying oil tanker jahre viking rammed and sank an unknown vessel in the dogger bank area, due to the vessels immence size the Jahare Viking was powerless to stop or even turn to avoid the unknown ship.

The Captain of Jahare Viking reported his radar was not functioning properly earlier that evening to Harwich vessel traffic services as it was due to high winds.
The Captain also reported that the unknown vessel had only two small bridge lights on to warn ships of its presence.

It is known that this ship was at anchor when struck, air and sea search have begun its likely the smaller vessel was forced under the the Jahre Viking causing her to sink rapidly, emergency services are saying they do not expect to find survivors.



This picture was taken by one of the forward cams just seconds before impact, the stern cameras later showed that there was nothing.


Now thats the same pic with a yellow circle round it i had to see that from the bridge about 1300 feet away i saw it but by the time i did it was way too late, could you blame me for running it down?

Originally Posted by Kapitan

Think that was VS 6.8 to VS 7.0 and the VS 7.0 is alot better than 6.8 or indeed even the 5.2 series! its come along long way.

NEWS FLASH


At 2137 this evening the ultra large crude carrying oil tanker jahre viking rammed and sank an unknown vessel in the dogger bank area, due to the vessels immence size the Jahare Viking was powerless to stop or even turn to avoid the unknown ship.

The Captain of Jahare Viking reported his radar was not functioning properly earlier that evening to Harwich vessel traffic services as it was due to high winds.
The Captain also reported that the unknown vessel had only two small bridge lights on to warn ships of its presence.

It is known that this ship was at anchor when struck, air and sea search have begun its likely the smaller vessel was forced under the the Jahre Viking causing her to sink rapidly, emergency services are saying they do not expect to find survivors.



This picture was taken by one of the forward cams just seconds before impact, the stern cameras later showed that there was nothing.


Now thats the same pic with a yellow circle round it i had to see that from the bridge about 1300 feet away i saw it but by the time i did it was way too late, could you blame me for running it down?

Not your fault. Small ships give way to bigger ones. That would be the rule of the sea!

[Kapitan]

I placed a few random ships here and there and i must have forgoten about this one, i know she was tiny very tiny couldnt see her over my bow and with lights like that on no wonder ! main thing is im not leaking oil im afloat and also minimal damage.

I think ive acctualy smashed that boat to bits !