[LRflex] Re: Tilting Queen of Nanaimo
- From: "W.B. Abbott" <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:00:46 -0700
Howard,
Your nice photo of a ferry heeled over, presumably in a tight turn, caught it
in the act of too much rudder and/or too little metacentric height (see Naval
Architecture 101) causing excessive heel.
It reminds me of my days driving an aircraft carrier, in which one of the big
no-no's was using so much rudder and/or engines to change course that the
flight deck heeled over too much, which presented serious and dangerous
problems to the flight deck crews who were carrying out refueling, rearming,
repositioning, etc. of large aircraft, not to say the prospect of an aircraft
sliding across the deck and over the side.
That could ruin your whole day!
Hope too many cars didn't slide into one another on the ferry.
Bill
On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:45 PM, H&E Cummer wrote:
> Hi Flexers,
> My wife and I have been traveling from one Gulf Island to another visiting
> friends. Two nights ago we were on Mayne, having a glass of wine on the deck
> of a friend's cabin which faces onto Active Pass (where all the BC ferries
> pass through on their way back and forth to the Mainland) and the old Queen
> of Nanaimo veered into Sturdies Bay port on Galiano Island across from where
> we were sitting. I had the GH2 with the 100 - 300 zoom and took this tilting
> picture of the old ferry. The lens was set at 246mm f8.0 shutter speed 1/1300
> ISO 160.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/SummerCanada2011/QNanaimoW.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/44w4a78
>
> Please look large and enjoy,
> C&C always welcome
>
> Howard
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