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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: Kona1988 on January 04, 2009, 05:56:10

Title: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: Kona1988 on January 04, 2009, 05:56:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAcfaMDcY68&feature=related

Wonder what that old guy and the crew were thinking when that happened xD

More like a cannon then a anchor xD

Title: Re: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: Minime on January 04, 2009, 09:27:44

hehe that's funny, I would love to be there myself when it happened

Title: Re: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: Traddles on January 04, 2009, 16:26:27

That is NOT funny at all. A very dangerous problem which appears to be caused by a faulty windlass brake. The cable is made well fast at the bitter end in the chain locker, otherwise somebody could have been killed. That sort of thing should never happen, but these things do happen, and it was lucky no one did get injured. You can see that the band brake on the windlass gypsy was in flames due to the effort of trying to stop the cable running out.  This same problem occurred when I was at sea off the port of Kotka in Finland. The band brake would not hold, the brake lining went on fire, and the full length of the cable ran out before it stopped. The Chippy was so scared he ran off, which was a very sensible thing to do in those circumstances.

Title: Re: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: ash on January 04, 2009, 16:29:04

i concur

Title: Re: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: Kona1988 on January 04, 2009, 18:41:28

Well, the video I posted was a video of a test for a new merchant ship. That ship was still in trials, good thing they found out then rather then out at sea ;)

I did not meen anything offensive by this.

Title: Re: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: ash on January 04, 2009, 18:44:29

they probably were at sea most SEA TRIALS usually take place at sea

Title: Re: REALLY safe anchor controlling!
Post by: RMSGreatBritain on January 04, 2009, 20:31:54

Quote from: Traddles on January 04, 2009, 16:26:27

That is NOT funny at all. A very dangerous problem which appears to be caused by a faulty windlass brake. The cable is made well fast at the bitter end in the chain locker, otherwise somebody could have been killed. That sort of thing should never happen, but these things do happen, and it was lucky no one did get injured. You can see that the band brake on the windlass gypsy was in flames due to the effort of trying to stop the cable running out.  This same problem occurred when I was at sea off the port of Kotka in Finland. The band brake would not hold, the brake lining went on fire, and the full length of the cable ran out before it stopped. The Chippy was so scared he ran off, which was a very sensible thing to do in those circumstances.

I agree there Traddles, at least no one was hurt!