View Full Version : End of a boat being built
chicot60
10-25-2011, 11:25 AM
http://i.imgur.com/CcaK1.jpg
hutch
10-25-2011, 05:20 PM
Hey chicot60,
Are you sure that's not a scrapyard?? Looks awful rusty to me...
Terryl
10-25-2011, 05:25 PM
They all look rusty when being built, they scrape and paint later, it's too hard to weld together if they painted everything before hand, too big a chance to start a fire.
And that's too big to be a boat, that's a ship.
And your also right Hutch, that could be a graving yard as there is no keel in place, but then they also could be building a section and waiting for it to be lifted into place.
I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg
Anubis
10-25-2011, 06:07 PM
Isn't that Night Prowlers boat. He mentioned something about working on it last year.:tehe:
He told me he was recovering the seats but that sure don't look like seats to me. Maybe he meant adding seats.:noidea:
chicot60
10-25-2011, 07:45 PM
Terryl is right. This is the end of a cargo ship that is being built.
Here are a couple quotes from the site that I got the pic.
Large cargo ships like this are usually built one hull segment at a time, and the segments are then dropped into position by a crane and welded together.
I worked in a ship yard painting things like you see here for a while. They were almost always rusty during construction, and it was our job to scrape it off with steel bristled brushes and sandblasters/pressure washers. The steel brushing off the rust was probably the worst part of the job- no matter what you do, it's tiring and you never get comfortable kneeling on hard steel moving along at a snails pace for hours, often in cramped hulls or in spots where you had to hold yourself up on a ledge as you worked.
After it gets brushed off, we would paint it with a pre-prime and primer, wherever it wasn't going to be welded. Usually we had to work inside a hull, and for the outer parts we would have to do within shrink wrapping the size of a circus tent or within a big garage-like shed (can't remember what we called them) to protect from rain, and to keep all the sandblast sand, **** that got blown off, and any paint spray from getting into the air and blowing out to other areas.
Was a fun job, if a little dangerous.
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