Yacht spotting in the Tyrrhenian Sea - The world's largest sailing yacht [Mobile Photography]
A while ago I was on a cruise in the Tyrrhenian Sea, with a crew of friends. We sailed along the Sardian and Corsican coast, exploring offshore islands and secret bays.
One day we had the extraordinary luck to spot one of the most spectacular swimming objects ever built, the Sailing Yacht A! One can always debate about design yet from an engineers viewpoint the construction of this ship really pushed the envelope in shipbuilding technology.
Just 9 months after being put into operation we found the sailing giant lying at anchor along our route. As it happens in such unforeseen events, my DSLR's battery was empty when needed and I had no backup battery at hands (amateurish, I know). Fortunately, my iPhone had some juice left (a rare violation of Murphy's law) and so I was left at least with something to capture the event.
If you are interested in all the record specs of the A and how it was constructed I recommend reading this article here.
And there she lies in the evening sun, the A.
Getting closer.
The A was constantly orbited by other ship watchers.
Check out these colossal, unstayed masts. Carbon fibre makes it possible.
Garages for tender and jet ski. There is another garage for the ship's own submarine. No kidding.
Goodbye A. Fair winds and following seas!
Smaller yachts have their appeal, too.
Time to find an anchorage before night falls.
Thanks for watching and 'til next time!
Shaka
All photos were recorded by myself with an iPhone 6S in 2017. All rights reserved.
Schick ist anders, hat dennoch einen eigenen Charme..
Ja, an dem Design scheiden sich die Geister. Mir gefallen die kleineren, klassischen Modelle auch besser.
Die Motoryacht fanden viele schon nicht schön. Ich find die hingegen eigentlich ziemlich cool, halt einfach mal was ganz anderes... Die Segelyacht... naja, ist halt echt gewöhnungsbedürftig. Fällt halt auf ;) Aber so ne klassische Yacht gefällt mir dann doch auch besser.
Now that looks like a decent piece of engineering! The "traditional" smaller yachts are more appealing to me though :)
Here is my latest catch as for ship photography:
It is a cruise ship MSC Opera that I captured when it was docked at a port in Havana, Cuba. A big one! :D
I feel the same, I prefer the classic ones, too.
This is some nice photography buddy.
Which model of iPhone?
I think he clearly wrote
Okay I saw that in the end lol
This yacht looks like a “James-Bond-stealth-comando-central”. Also the grey finish/color makes it look like it is made out of concrete.
Totally! :D
Unvergessliche Erinnerungen wirst Du in diesem Segelurlaub gesammelt haben. Ich beneide Dich schon alleine deshalb ein wenig, weil Du das Szenario auf dem 1. Bild mit der tief stehenden Sonne live erlebt hast. Das ist wirklick ein uverschämt gutes Foto! :-)
Danke Dir!
Wow, einfach nur wow! Unglaubliches „Segelboot“!
Und auch wieder beachtlich, was schon mit dem 6S alles ging! Benutzt du auch Snapseed oder so?
Danke! Es ist tatsächlich umstritten, ob dieses Biest als Segelboot durchgeht, bzw. nicht doch eher in die Kategorie segelunterstützte Motoryacht fällt.
Die Kamera gehört fraglos zu den Stärken des iPhones. Eine Frechheit hingegen ist die Kurzlebigkeit des Akkus. Mein 6S ist jetzt seit knapp zwei Jahren in Betrieb und braucht mittlerweile zwei Ladezyklen pro Tag. Wäre der Akku austauschbar wäre es ja noch mal etwas anderes.
Snapseed verwende ich nicht, sieht aber Deinem Post zur Folge nach einer guten mobilen Lösung für die Bildbarbeitung aus. Ich mache alles mit Lightroom, auch die Bearbeitung der Handybilder. Da sind die Abläufe bei mir inzwischen so eingeschliffen, dass ich da vermutlich kaum noch wechseln werde. Ausserdem schätze ich die Möglichkeit mit LR auch die gesamte Bildverwaltung, Kategorisierung und Archivierung komfortabel managen zu können.
Grüsse!
@shaka, Wow, awesome stuff for sure and this ship is really huge and in my opinion for sure people will going to visit here because, this place is just awesome to explore and this ship is reflecting as Sky Touching for sure.
And good to know that in summer season you've explored this place and for sure these kind of places will refresh us because water view is one of the aspect where everyone wants to spend their occasions.
And in 7th picture we can see Sun as huge fireball for sure and it holds amazing and powerful essence. We all wait for these kind of beautiful weather because these kind of weather can really heal us.
And in same 7th picture at right side we can see an green stuff in the sky, in my opinion it's an Reflection effect but it's reflecting as some kind of green planet is becoming visible and it's great to watch for sure.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂
You are right, the green ball is a lens reflection that is very typical for the iPhone in counter light photography. Most of the times I don't remove it since conveys a special will-o'-wisp-effect that often fits nicely to the scenery.
Yes, it's really giving that add on effect. 🙂
Aha! It doesn't matter whether you have a DSLR or a smartphone. Your photographs are always clear, bright and treats for eyes. The big yacht was remarkably grand and beautiful.
However, I could not understand your following lines:
Thank you!
Well, I was joking that if something can go wrong, it usually does go wrong. Meaning that according to Murphy's law the battery of my iPhone should have been empty, too.
Woohoooo, really cool!
Ich hab sie ja lange Zeit hier in Kiel in der Werft liegen sehen.... Das war schon immer beeindruckend.
Hier ein Bild (leider sieht man nur die Masten) mit der Motoryacht A , ebenfalls in Kiel gebaut und gleicher Besitzer...
Toll! Danke für das Beisteuern diese Bildes. Sieht so aus, dass der Eigner da gerade auf Stippvisite war um den Baufortschritt zu begutachten :)
Sehr gerne :) Ich meine mich zu erinnern, dass es tatsächlich auch so war :)
Thank you @shaka for posting these photographs of this 'spectacular swimming object' as you have called it.......a rare catch indeed.....a sailing yacht.
Appreciate you bringing this beauty to Steemit.
All the best from bleujay/bentleycapital.
Cheers!
Thank you!