Launching Yachts

well must have been a slow news day as it made the Channel 7 news in perth

as a licenced crane driver & dogman there is no way I would have been putting an outrigger that close to the waters edge without all sorts of who knows what compaction type tests
I think he's lucky the whole lot didn't topple into the drink :o
I'd suggest they were watching the outriggers and put it down real fast when something started to move and once that happened you wouldn't be picking it up again unless you had a death wish (otherwise with that size crane he could have put it anywhere they wanted it)
Jase

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Originally Posted by jase

as a licenced crane driver & dogman there is no way I would have been putting an outrigger that close to the waters edge without all sorts of who knows what compaction type tests
I think he's lucky the whole lot didn't topple into the drink :o
I'd suggest they were watching the outriggers and put it down real fast when something started to move and once that happened you wouldn't be picking it up again unless you had a death wish (otherwise with that size crane he could have put it anywhere they wanted it)
Jase

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As a dogman, I'm with Jase all the way on this one. Once he started jibbing it out todrop it in its designated place something went screwy and it got "put" in the drink pronto to stop god only knows what happening. Is that a concrete slab I spy under the rear port side outrigger? :eek:

hey the reason it took him 30 plus years to put it in the water was he had to save the $22,000 for the hire of the crane for the day.

the Perth channel 7 news interviewed the son, who said not only would they have to wait for tide change to float it into the channel they would have tow ait another month to get it under the bridge at low water mark

now thats what l call patience in playing with your new toy

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Originally Posted by Stevo_62

As a dogman, I'm with Jase all the way on this one. Once he started jibbing it out todrop it in its designated place something went screwy and it got "put" in the drink pronto to stop god only knows what happening. Is that a concrete slab I spy under the rear port side outrigger? :eek:

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I'll try and find out the full story tomorrow (will be meeting the owners son at work), but I would suspect that guys that are working with a 350tonne crane would also know what they are doing. From what I can gather there was a problem with the rear outrigger closest to the water starting to subside (but can't say for sure). It wasn't however put in real quick as they picked it out of the water and moved it again. Just didn't get it into the channel.

Anyway its now (as of 11:00am) floating in mid river. According to the local paper once completed it should be worth around $1 million.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...007/03/114.jpg


Martyn

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Originally Posted by cartm58

hey the reason it took him 30 plus years to put it in the water was he had to save the $22,000 for the hire of the crane for the day.

the Perth channel 7 news interviewed the son, who said not only would they have to wait for tide change to float it into the channel they would have tow ait another month to get it under the bridge at low water mark

now thats what l call patience in playing with your new toy

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The thing that gets me is:
35 years ago there probably wasn't a mobile crane capable of lifting it, and the bridge just downstream was lower than the one there now (and thats low enough).


Martyn