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..
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