Comments on: Freedom of the Seas

Freedom of the Seas

thirteenkiller — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:43:11 -0800

Supertankers are so cool. Click previous sentence for more information.

By: antifreez_

antifreez_ — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:56:13 -0800

I concur. Supertankers are de facto awesome.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:07:59 -0800

What can one say about Supertankers? They certainly are big. I would like a Supertanker filled with that sweet, sweet crude. Or rather, I would like a Supertaker filled with gasoline ['cause I don't own a refining facility], but that's too dangerous. It could dock in the river behind my house. We'd have to dredge it first. I would like a Supertanker filled with good coffee or nitroglycerin or yerba mate or red bull. Maybe all three in different sections. Add to that milk and honey and nectar and ambrosia. What is ambrosia, anyway? I want some. I have decided that I really like to say Supertanker. Soo Purr Tane Kurrrr. Supertanker. ps thx for the link.

By: perissodactyl

perissodactyl — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:11:31 -0800

That iWeb site is maintained by a man who loves supertankers. Cool.

By: perissodactyl

perissodactyl — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:11:46 -0800

err. Web site.

By: cloeburner

cloeburner — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:14:25 -0800

MechaTank

By: esch

esch — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:21:27 -0800

Yeah, I guess they're alright.

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:28:05 -0800

They're like trains, in that I don't think about them much, but when I'm actually near one, I am very impressed. I'm always happy to see one person's preoccupation turned into a fun website like this. Maybe not "best of the web" but certainly "bread and butter of the web".

By: marvin

marvin — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:31:59 -0800

I'm still looking for the Condoleezza Rice, erm, I mean the Altair Voyager..

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:32:06 -0800

I would like to see all cruise shipsconverted into supertankers. Thank you.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:33:22 -0800

I agree wholeheartedly, ParisParamus.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:34:25 -0800

I would like to see all cruise shipsconverted into supertankers. If you could come up with a way to make biodiesel out of humans, then you could have Soylent Oil made of cruise people!

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:39:36 -0800

exlotuseater: ambrosia

By: benign

benign — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:51:41 -0800

b1tr0t: You'd get light crude instead of biodiesel, but I think TDP would get the job done nicely.

By: sp dinsmoor

sp dinsmoor — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:56:56 -0800

Heavy transport ships are cool as well.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:59:57 -0800

Click previous sentence for more information. LOL!

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:02:31 -0800

Ooo sp dinsmoor that's a cool page.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:09:22 -0800

I thought the page was light on anything but pictures. There's little information there that I could see. I didn't see anything about spills, either.

By: magwich

magwich — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:10:08 -0800

They're impressive, I guess. Call me when they get some kick ass rock walls.

By: peacay

peacay — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:10:57 -0800

Reverse parking must be hell.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:22:13 -0800

I was waiting for her to say "EVOO" and giggle.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:56:07 -0800

Hey how much are they? Seriously - I think I'd like to get one some day. ...I have an idea.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:57:07 -0800

I mean - are we talking like... $5 million? Because that's doable. If they're like $50 or $100 million or something, probably not. But $5 million is not out of the realm of possibility.

By: Staggering Jack

Staggering Jack — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:57:51 -0800

Why buy just a yacht when you could get a yacht carrier? (from sp dinsmoor's above link).

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:09:08 -0800

I'd rather have a container ship.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:11:59 -0800

Disclosure of vested interest......anything you wish to know about yacht transport ... ask me I've represented the company in the yacht carrier link for 16 years.

By: JPD

JPD — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:20:18 -0800

a new VLCC will cost you about 100 mil right now.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:22:53 -0800

Hey Baby_Balrog, maybe we could put our money together?

By: Staggering Jack

Staggering Jack — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:23:12 -0800

anything you wish to know about yacht transport ... ask me I've represented the company Wow, it's a small Internet afterall. So, um, after you've unloaded the transport ship, is there always one or two yachts left over whose owners forgot about them? If so, can I have one?

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:02:41 -0800

Why buy just a yacht when you could get a yacht carrier? I love vehicles that contain other vehicles. Is there a word for that?

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:15:38 -0800

Orange: how about development arrested at age 7? I actually agree with you, though...

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:46:01 -0800

Metavehicles, Orange Goblin?

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:49:19 -0800

In younger days I used to have a 17' outboard skiff and run up next to them at high speed and slam over the bow wakes and along the side. Mammoths, a silent windowless building moving at high speed, leaving behind vortex whirlpools. This was in the upper Chesapeake where the channel was the width of two ships, they turned for nothing.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:04:22 -0800

"a new VLCC will cost you about 100 mil right now." Fuck. What about used? ...with financing?

By: fatbobsmith

fatbobsmith — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:38:09 -0800

I think we're going to need a bigger boat...

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:29:03 -0800

The salvage value is listed at $238/ton delivered on the linked site. That would seem to indicate at least $10 million.. Greenpeace seems to think the price is a little lower (but it is hard to tell the unloaded weight of these things). Most of the good stuff will have been removed by the time they goes for scrap though..

By: JPD

JPD — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:34:16 -0800

used one not much cheaper. Wait a few years though and you should be able to get a single hulled one for pretty close to salvage. Which is really a function of steel prices. You'd wait 2-3 years for new right now anyway.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:37:40 -0800

Still make for a hell of a housing opportunity... Oh. Yeah. Your yacht. Nice.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:41:22 -0800

It'd be cool to have a supertanker, but my dream yacht is a decommissioned Coast Guard cutter. Repainted. Something about those boats is really cool.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:15:37 -0800

Supertankers are utterly insane. thx thirteenkiller

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:17:24 -0800

So does peak oil imply peak oil spills?

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:24:31 -0800

Impressive marine engineering, but older supertankers can be a disaster waiting to happen. From a thread comment earlier this year: Where do supertankers go when they die?

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:25:42 -0800

Paris Paramus: I would like to see all cruise shipsconverted into supertankers. Totally stupid, PP. If there are no cruise ships, the cruise people will pollute the nice places. Keep 'em cruisin!

By: bonehead

bonehead — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:07:55 -0800

So does peak oil imply peak oil spills? No. That is, probably not. There are less and smaller spills now than ever. There has been a downward trend in the number and volume of spills for the past thirty years. There are question marks though. The opening of the Stockmann fields in the Sakhalin Islands means shipping in one of the roughest seas, the Barents, in the world. The amount of oil the Russians want to move by ship is staggering. Two supertankers a day minimum around the north coast of Norway. This makes most people in the response business rather edgy.