Sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a complete sphincter clincher anyway…
It has a real “pucker factor”.
Funny thing is I’m scared of heights. And here I am Captain of a boat jacked up 70’ in the air LOL. Just standing on the main deck is 83’ above the water.
You must just be afraid of falling. If you’re afraid of heights, don’t come to my house, it is 6,250 ft above sea level.
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Its not the fall. Its the sudden stop at the end!!!
I love it up in the mountains!!! I just know to stay back a little bit from the edge LOL. They were giving us a tour of the platform when we first got here last hitch. I made it though the bottom levels and got to see all the transformers and such, but when they headed up top i oped out LOL. I know my limits LOL.
Several years ago they took the sister ship to this boat on a job in Mobile Bay. 20’ of water and jacked up to 180’ air gap. I think i would have had to nope out of that one LOL. Ive been to 100’ air gap a few times and I really don’t like it LOL. My crew doesn’t like it when we are this high. Not because they have the same fear, but because I wont put any lean on the boat to help with water run off from rain or washing down the boat. They have to spend a lot more time on squeegees LOL.
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Good morning from the Atlantic Ocean. Finally heading home today. Day late but at least it’s finally here. Boat should be out here about 1400 then head to the hotel. Flight home to Pensacola at 0600 tomorrow!!
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so when those legs are all the way up, are there still legs below, or are they flush with the “boat?”
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When we are underway they are all the way up. There is a 16’ x 40’ pad on the bottom of them. Here is a pic of the pads when we were on Drydock last year
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That’s so funny, because I can remember literally bouncing across Mobile Bay in a sailboat on the final stretch of the NO-Mobile race. We would have to tack back and forth out near the mouth of the bay until we could make out which of the lights were the blasted finish line, then it was usually a close reach into the line, and we still banged the keel on the bottom half the time. (OK, maybe one or two good thumps, not quite enough to pull the boat to make sure everything was still ship-shape before the Mobile-Pensacola race the next weekend…)
Late edit: For context and to properly age myself, we were on the slow boats. The big yachts that money made go fast finished late in the afternoon. We were arriving at 2-3 AM. We were lucky, we had Lorraine (LORAN-C?) to tell us where we were (within something like 250m, if we were lucky), none of the fancy-schmancy GPS yet that would have let us plot a course right up to the windward edge of the finish line (actually, it would still be a bit of a crap-shoot, as the locations of the buoys were… fungible). So we would be bobbing off of Mobile Bay, looking into the harbor, trying to figure out which blinking light was the committee boat waiting on station to finish the race, all back-lit by high-pressure sodium floods in the shipyards. Thank goodness this was also pre-casinos…
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Just opposite ends lol
Just landed in Charlotte waiting for the connecting flight to Pensacola. Nothing but clouds on the first flight lol. But was a good time to re-listen to @vicious1 pod cast without interruptions this time!!
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Dash8
Q300 ? I recognize that view all too well
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Dash 8 yeah!! Q400 I think. The main plane for short distance flights in northern Norway. Years ago it was the Twin Otter. They both sure are AIRPLANES in their truest form. Almost like old cars. Everything seems manually controlled and a little run down, but they fly in all sorts of weather, and can land almost while still turning in the direction of the landing strip.
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Been a while since I have had anything worth posting on this thread. We are posted up at Fish Island in New Bedford, MA for the winter. Should be going back out to the wind farms sometime March/April
Had a pretty good snow storm today. Very wet and heavy. Me being a FL guy snow isn’t something we deal with often lol. But trying to still get things done was not fun. Had engine mechanics and a welder on board all day so lots of bouncing around. And I had to keep everyone off the deck for most of the day. The snow would pack up on the legs then get heavy enough and fall. Big snow piles falling from 200+ feet is not a good thing to get hit by lol
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You guys also build/maintain off shore wind farms? Do you guys work on them, or are you like UPS/freight-shipping for Oil Rigs, and other large off shore projects that require large tricky deliveries (and pickups)?
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We provide housing/food/deckspsce and cranes. We don’t do the actual windfarm work. Usually we are in the Gulf of Mexico doing oil/gas stuff but we still do the same job of hotel basically lol
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Thanks for the videos. My wife is from the town on the other side of New Bedford…Fairhaven. we love going there, but in the summer. Now i can see how much snow my sister-in-law got 
Yeah we are not far from Farhaven at all. It started snowing at 0700 and didn’t stop till a little after 1600 here. Now it’s all a frozen blob lol
Typical New England coast 