Docking MV Hoy Head at Lyness in poor weather.
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- This afternoon I took the ferry back from Lyness on Hoy to Houton on Mainland Orkney.
Impressive berthing of the vessel in poor conditions.
Journey across Scapa Flow takes approximately 35 mins if direct.
Check out www.orkneyferries.co.uk for more info, booking and sailing times.
Well done boys, precision & professionalism combined.
Land, sea, or air, always thankful for the professionals!
What a fantastic job these guys do.
Holding it there without any mooring lines - brilliant.
Bow thrusters stern thrusters every concievable gadget holding it there automatically🤣
Its out right dangerous and stupid, what if the engine fails, shift in the wind...
@@drumswest5035 fully agree, it's poor form. Bravado capsized that cruise ship just a few years ago.
Nay sayers, we can't get away from them!
The "side thrusters", at the stern at least, are the main propulsion.. It has 2 steerable azimuth pods.
Very cool, very entertaining, good luck
Quite an impressive system they have, and the trim tabs must have been working hard to keep it so stable, although it didn't look too rough near the harbour.
Think this skipper may have done this a few times 👍👏👏👏
That took a lot of skill from a lot of experience. Likely the boat's pilot learned his/her trade in the North Sea, where during some seasons, conditions in the video could be considered a fair weather day.
It's most unlikely that you would have a pilot on an inter-island ferry like that.
@@Paws4thot I didn't mean pilot in the official sense, rather the person in command of the vessel. Like Mark Twain's riverboat pilot.
Wow...🎉
Perfect docking procedur😊e
That's a normal Orcadian day ..bit choppy and a light breeze...
Can anybody tell me what the cost of fare is per vehicle just seems a lot of work for just a few vehicles when i think of how the Woolwich ferry across the thames used to be packed out years ago , just interested
Subsudised as all these ferrys are so they aint fussed. Hope that helps👍
We call it RET, road equivalent tarrif..
You pay the same as you would on a toll road the same length a the sailing.
Upside:makes it possible to live there.
Downside: the ferry gets a block Grant payment fir the year, they lose money every sailing. So the bean counters persuade it to cancel as often as they can without breaking the terms of the grant..
@@dougaltolan3017 thanks for the reply dougal that is about par for the course in this country it runs at a loss and the tax payer picks up the tab just hope it keeps running for you and they don't employ someone like Dr beeching in the sixties on the railways to look in to things that can be cut out , I think you might be in trouble then , keep safe.
@@kenbennett5458 the taxpayers' expense conversation is something we hear quite a lot of in such remote locations....
But (there's always a butt!)
It's no different from anywhere else, except that it's not taken for granted..
Mainland roads.. Taxpayers' expense.
Power grid... Taxpayers' expense.
Then theres the question of what would (should) a country do?
Believe it or not, we are just as much contributors to GDP as anyone else, in some cases more so..
Who would run the tourism businesses if they were expected to live with sub standard services (that mainland take for granted) at a severely elevated cost of living (it costs an arm and a leg to get stuff shipped), and at least an extra day's travel if we want to go anywhere?
You should try it some time. There's a whole different perspective from here.
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Dougal I meant no offence to you all I meant was it would be good to see something run for a profit and as for trying it sometime I did back in the early eighties on the Falklands waiting for the dead and wounded to be taken of and supplies to come in and that's all I've got to say on this matter
They don’t rely on shore staff to take a rope then?
Only really needed when the wind is blowing the boat off the pier.
On this day the wind was blowing more along the pier, pushing the boat onto the linkspan.
@@dougaltolan3017 Thank you for that!
Poor weather? Thats a balmy sunny day.
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