Comp 123 Weekly Automotive

[henk4]

Originally Posted by cmcpokey

when you are dealing with winds you adjust your course to compensate for the set and drift that the wind and seas give you. its called crabbing, since you are driving sideways. when you can do this in a channel, but if it is too narrow you run the risk of occupying the entire thing, and not allowing other ships to pass. these windbrakes would probably assist, but by no means would they get rid of all the sideforces pushing on the ships. just merely something else to help the pilots.

the bridge is about 34 meters wide, and all the time the car carriers are assisted by a tug at the bow and at the stern. This wind protection (about 2 km from where I live) was constructed before Drakkie started to work his memory. At the time the whole set-up received the "annual price" for concrete constructions..

[Cotterik]

love the escort adamfraser!

There's never much point in entering the autocomp, since i dont really have frequent access to decent cars or situations for a good photo. And all other members who enter usually do. But I've been to a few showrooms lately shopping for my dads new cars so.. ill just post one for the heck of it!

Cotterik
Nuova Grande Puntos
May 28
Nikon D80

[drakkie]

Originally Posted by cmcpokey

when you are dealing with winds you adjust your course to compensate for the set and drift that the wind and seas give you. its called crabbing, since you are driving sideways. when you can do this in a channel, but if it is too narrow you run the risk of occupying the entire thing, and not allowing other ships to pass. these windbrakes would probably assist, but by no means would they get rid of all the sideforces pushing on the ships. just merely something else to help the pilots.

Kind of useless then as the large ships allready occupy the entire channel. Im gonna ask a pilot tonight.

[Leo_Ant]

There's never much point in entering the autocomp, since i dont really have frequent access to decent cars or situations for a good photo. And all other members who enter usually do.

Totally agree, but we, the less fortunate, must see it as a challenge, not a limitation. And so...we persist:

Leo_Ant
Balance
Last Sunday
Last one with HP