Post your Freighter or big boat thread

Another one for good luck!

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Todd.that second photo is stunning!!!!!

Not great, but rather large

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By-tor wrote in post #8202195
Being from Michigan, I miss seeing the ships in the great lakes... I still remember watching on the news back in 1975 when the Fitzgerald sank Nov. 10th in lake Superior. God I'm getting old.... lolz.

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down..."

Some more of mine:

The USS Midway (now a museum...)

JWright wrote in post #8907516

I've seen the Midway probably a couple thousand times now in passing, but I've never once seen it like this. Cool shot!

Wasnt the Midway in the Movie "Final Countdown" or something like that....Cool shot!!!!

Nevermind it was the Nimitz

justincase724 wrote in post #8910545
I've seen the Midway probably a couple thousand times now in passing, but I've never once seen it like this. Cool shot!

stargazer77517 wrote in post #8912330
Wasnt the Midway in the Movie "Final Countdown" or something like that....Cool shot!!!!

Nevermind it was the Nimitz

IMDB Trivia on "The Final Countdown" if anyone is interested.

A personal favorite movie of mine.

Another piece of trivia is the boat that was the prez boat in the movie was here in Clear Lake, Texas. It was bought by an individual here and shipped down. This was last year I last saw it...not sure if its still here.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #8912363
IMDB Trivia on "The Final Countdown" if anyone is interested.

A personal favorite movie of mine.

stargazer77517 wrote in post #8912559
Another piece of trivia is the boat that was the prez boat in the movie was here in Clear Lake, Texas. It was bought by an individual here and shipped down. This was last year I last saw it...not sure if its still here.

Oh Cool...

As I recall, that was quite a snappy looking motor launch.

The Federal Pride, a Cyprus flagged vessel, set sail from Teesport, United Kingdom and Antwerp, Belgium with a cargo of steel. The ship, 470 feet long with a 75 foot beam, sailed under the command of Captain Maciej A. Adamiak. Limassol, Cyprus is its home port. Shown here heading downbound the Detroit River into Lake Erie.

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This is my first post on POTN. I love big floating objects (avoiding the debate of labeling these things). It always amazes me how these massive hunks of steel float! Here are a couple of cruise ships on the Caribbean.

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And another couple cruise ships - St. Martin this time.

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justincase724 wrote in post #8897249
This thread hasn't seen any love for a while, so I figure it could be resurrected a a few of these - though not a freighter, it's a awfully big sail boat. My father-in-law was the crane operator who lifted this BMW Oracle Racing trimaran into the water yesterday afternoon, so my wife, daughter, and mother-in-law thought it would be cool to go watch $200+ million dollars get dropped into the water.

This boat was just on the news tonight here. It was towed in from sea after snapping off it's 200 foot mast...

JWright wrote in post #8949834
This boat was just on the news tonight here. It was towed in from sea after snapping off it's 200 foot mast...

I was wondering if somebody would mention the rig coming down, Important thing is that none of the crew was hurt as 18 stories of mast and sails came crashing down.

This went on yesterday. The Canadian Transport was stuck for 3+ hours while the Coast Guard help break him lose in the St. Clair river, just north of Algonac State Park.