Marvel at the seamanship! That ferry goes in and out of many ports in a single day, in all weathers and all tide states; it has a schedule to keep and islands to serve. Brilliant.
@@cagrigokhantortum8040 sure, but with no prop wash your steering is going to be quite severely impacted. And what about a steering gear failure? Like, I get that this is fine when everything works, it's just that the moment something doesn't work as intended you're having a bad day because you're cutting the margins so fine.
What they gonna do when good old 'Murphy' shows up! It happens! BCFerries had a linkage disconnect coming in to dock and could not stop and took out several boats at the dock in Horseshoe Bay. And they were no where near as fast as this!
This is the main Maria on Siros, Greece. A beautyful town and neat place. BUT (read on): I was in this marina with my sailboat - once and never again because of those morons. They drive like Jackasses into the harbor with 10kn or more - then full bow thrusters and full reverse, which creates around 1,5 to 2m high waves in the maria. I never went offboard to protect my ship. Other ships were pushed into the kaiwall. The problem is - you have to go back and anchor at around 15m depth. So you have a shit load of chain out that you can't pull it tight enought if one of those iditos does his stunt there... Going sideways to the kai is suicide. The marina is free of charge and you get even free water and electricity to make it more attractive - but even this does not help... I ended up leaving the marina at evening and anchoring at the small island you can see at the beginning of the vid to get at least some sleep. Next day I went back just for 30 mins to put my repaired sail back on and left as quickly as I could. This has nothing to do with "like a boss" .. more "like a idiot". Go to this marina and you can watch really poor seamanship shown by the profis - not more. Fun fact: This marina is hated by nearly every sailor I've met in greece because of those stupid ferry "captains".
You are a moron that you think the entire harbor should belong to your shitty sailboat. These islands get thousands of tourists every day and ferries need to get in and out fast because they also serve other islands in a row. Greek captains were and still are the best in the planet. Maneuvering a ferry so quick is really hard to do and no other captains except Greeks can do such thing.
Even if they did, the ferry company would not do anything here. It's profits they are after, and polite. well behaved captains/ first officers don't make profits.
Island Syros port Ermopoli www.google.com/maps/place/Ermoupoli,+Greece/@37.4379886,24.9396983,15.35z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x14a28852859d8db5:0x5f25ddfc51279f3f!8m2!3d37.4418105!4d24.9404242
@@dimitragkika7074 nothing to do with what nationality, the last pr*ck to show off killed a lot of people. I wasn't saying it was the same captain fool
@@bonkeydollocks1879 συγνώμη αλλά είναι τελείως άσχετο το παράδειγμα σου. Ο καπετάνιος είχε μπει σε ρηχά νερά με κρουαζιερόπλοιο χωρίς να βρίσκεται στο τιμόνι. Από όλες τις πλευρές είναι ανούσιο αυτό που λες
.... I have opinions... I mean... don't get me wrong. It's impressive. But not nearly impressive enough to make up for the day you suffer a steering gear failure halfway through your initial turn and end up broadsiding the chemical tanker at 10kts....
skilful or overuse of resources? seems like it will take a toil on the marine environment. Seems very 'ego' driven. The gas tanker is 'at risk'. Harbour master opinion?
For English speakers he said " ha bla bla bla he sh ha blash hah bla scesh bla ha bla" now you know. That translates to " I love a big sausage in my Hinee all day long " and in Spanish it means " we love America the great and wonderful and Donald trump "
This recording brought to you by potato inc... There is no reason, even at 2014, for this shit to be in fucking 240p. War/terror recordings coming out of 4th world shit holes are 1080p but i cant get my ferry boat groove on in high def? Fuck that.
For all who say that this maneuver was too risky: The Greek ferry system is one of Europe's most iterated. Many ports are small, most harbors are surrounded by hills, which change the general direction of winds. Winter winds can be very strong, but also in summer in the central Aegean there is a nearly constant strong wind of Bf 4-8 (the Meltemi). Yet the Greek ferry system is one of the safest in the world. Kudos to Greek Ferry Captains ! In this case (a relatively big harbor in tranquil weather) the weathered master of this vessel executed a bold maneuver, but one which was well within his skills. Bravo !
Too fast in my opinion. Ok, they're doing every day, vessel is good and very manouvreable (CPP, Becker rudders and thrusters), as long as nothing will happen......over reliance is a nasty and hidden risk.
Too much tonnage and too many things that can wrong with that kind of a ship to be that unsafe! People commenting on this don't have experience with tonnage to even guess what danger there is with this!
So? I've seen bigger ships with more tonnage that weighed a lot more than Blue Star and perform a drifting maneuver like this with no problem. So really what you say doesn't really make all that sense when ships are designed to not flip over even when drifting no matter how much tonnage. The only way drifting would be risky and have an actual affect would be if the ship was a speedboat that performed a hard drifting maneuver. Besides if what you said was true then I'm sure the captain wouldn't have done that
The port authority should suspend this guy license for life. He shows very poor seamanship and no respect whatsoever for private property, the environment and above all human life. A ship is far from being a perfect machine and human error is always possible. Dont forget the Costa Concordia . Wanna be a hot shot...join the circus.
+DodecagonYT This kind of manoeuvring remains common throughout the Mediterranean , however in Commonwealth and Northern European ports would breach port bylaws and result in the loss of pilotage exemption and possibly criminal proceedings in the courts. The manouevre may be successful 99.9% of the time, but a single mechanical failure could be catastrophic. The amount of astern thrust required to stop the vessel is immense (note the excessive cavitation). It is detrimental to the underwater marine environment. Many Masters are capable of manoeuvres at this speed, but most will never be reckless enough to risk lives doing it.
That hot-shot Captain will do that every day for years and then , just when he's about to throw his ship into that starboard turn as he comes through the pier heads his steering gear will fail, it will fail to neutral and his ship will not even slow by half a knot before coming to grief buried bridge deep in the port side of a product carrier, seconds later there will be a bright glow and lots of heat and light and a front page headline around the world.
You are exactly right sir. Having optimistic macho captains, especially on passenger vessels, is playing Russian roulette. Eventually people die. This is an example of truly lousy seamanship.
Captains ferry in local area usually are very familiar with their vessel area etc, of course their skill are improved by hundred ..of manvrs. The problem is the schedule tide and capt (in videoclip you can hear the conversation about ropes,gangway). The entrance speed was high ( was ok for cpt, if was wind for sure not was same mauvr.) My opinion unnecessary to save 15-20 min (the second part of manuvr was normal).
Some years ago in Naxos i saw one of the blue star getting into the harbour really fast and i saw her putting all the tiller and dropping the entire the anchor chain for docking. It was really amazing. Ps: my naval english is bad, sorry
