attribute such to a unique and visually striking thumbnail photo and video content. since you live in Holland why not a busy canal? :) well done.

@@Hugh-Glass nice to read you like it! :)

@@ShipSpottingNederland thank you. I do like it

1.1 million now 😀

Slightly more surprising than the excellent steering... is the bow thruster above the waterline. I know a cargo will take the line down... but it still makes no sense... currently

Thank you for your nice story Stevie Athers.! :)

Thank you so much!

That's nice, i would like to see Arklow in Ireland, i mean the city ;)

Thank you very much, it's nice to know you liked it too!

That's right and thank you for watching, greetings to you too and i love your videos! 👍 👋

You're welcome, thank you for watching Misran!

Bedankt, doen we! 😉

Thank you for watching Paul!

Absolutely!

Indeed!

Zo kijk ik er ook altijd naar als ik aan het filmen/ monteren ben.. :)

Thank you Neil!

Thank you very much, are you a shipspotter too?

@@ShipSpottingNederland I live near a harbour and interested in anything ships.

@@ShipsoftheOceans that's nice, have fun!

@@ShipSpottingNederland I am a ship welfare visitor at present with the Mission to Seafarers at Warrenpoint Harbour. I manage the seamans mission at Warrenpoint Harbour. When ships arrive in the port they have an area where they can come and relax for a while, have refreshments, watch television,, read some papers and use the internet and the computer.

@@ShipsoftheOceans that's very interesting and you also make videos?

The sounds i think if cavitation of the tugs propeller

Thank you for your nice story G Howard, i love it!

Bass Lake is 6000m2? :0

Sometimes they hit something i think..

that is the sound of the bow thrusters

Did you mean in the video? Because i always add the description under the videos on my KZfaq-channel. If you are watching it on a television, you will not see it indeed...

Greetings to you too! :)

Thank you for the tip Wilco!

Brand new indeed zeus 5029!

I think you are very lucky!

if you think passing a couple of bridges with centimeters to spare (there's several more on the route to the sea locks at Delfzijl) is hairy, watch her launch: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9hnZdWmvMfdXaM.html

Waterhuizen in The Netherlands!

@@ShipSpottingNederland Oh thanks, I didn't know there were this type of waterways in this part of the country. This waterway seems to be well connected to others, to the sea and to Germany too

@@nanba25 Indeed!

by car its about 30 minutes drive to the ocean i dont know how long it will take by boat its build on the shipyard my dad works ad heres the vid of the ship going into the water kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itubaNuDtq3SfKs.html

At least 35 Miles Keith!

The ship was build in The Netherlands for Arklow Shipping in Ireland indeed..

Thanks... that makes sense. The shipyard is still here👍🏼

Dat is Waterhuizen!

I don't know..

Pardon?

@@highrevs6110 The Arklow ship is well out water.. if shallow water for a ship of this size, if full of cargo then maybe be grounded. Maybe you don't know the term

She was just launched, it's not a canal used for coasters like the Arklow class. The barge you see first is the biggest freight-moving type of boats on that canal. The Arklow Abbey is just getting towed towards the sea locks at the city of Delfzijl, about 35 km (and several more bridges she'd barely fit through) away. You can trace the route by putting 'Waterhuizen' in google earth and then follow 'Winschoterdiep (the canal) north to the city of Groningen, and then the 'Eemskanaal' east to Delfzijl. Shortly before Delfzijl she'll take the east arm of the canal, out the sea locks to the harbour of Delfzijl. History put Groningen's coaster shipyards on the Winschoterdiep canal, and as coasters got bigger after WWII, they were build to max size to fit through the bridges.

Goeie vraag, ik weet het niet precies.. good question, i don't know exactly Jedilz)..

Does it look like the Welland canal Sammy? I'm just curious...

it's on a canal system, not a river system. Water's moved more by wind than by flow.

the sea locks at the city of Delfzijl.

More of these ships are coming your way, because they are building right now :)

@@ShipSpottingNederland I look forward to seeing them

@@shanegalvin3971 me too!

And Cork Shane!

We get a lot in our port, they used to have Irish crews which were always ok but now they tend to have crews from all over the place who aren’t so good!

Arklow Abbey is a brand new coaster indeed Sammy!

It looks like it indeed!

Neil Fantacone diepgang is minimaal 1,60 daar dus hij schraapt niet over de bodem en als het was dan hoor je het niet omdat het een sand bodem is. Het geluid herken ik als lucht in de schroefbuis van de duwer. Waarschijnlijk ligt hij wat hoog in het water en zuigt lucht aan in de buis.

Good question Keith, i was wondering the same..

Bow thruster 😉

Rick de Jong Sorry Rick but it wasn’t that. The bow thrusters were completely exposed above the water line. It sounded like the hull was in contact with the guides on the near side, but that’s just speculation on my part.

@@shiptherapy8883 maybe the stern tugs' bow thruster ?

Leo Starrenburg You May have hit the nail on the head there Leo, I hadn’t thought of that! Cheers!

Good question, but I don't how they do it, I just film the whole procedure.. :)

Radio communications, either from the lead tug or from the ship's bridge.

@@buggsy5 Thanks, buggsy. I thought about that, and felt it would be very challenging. My only experience is with 20 metre British narrowboats, but on British narrow canals you do a lot of the same kind of thing as the tug is doing, steering from the stern through gaps just centimetres wider than the boat, and I know how very difficult it is to instruct a novice steerer in how to 'hit the gap' - "left a bit, no not that much, go back to your right, further, no, not that far, a bit left - LEFT"... CRUNCH. British narrowboats are built to take that sort of collision without damage, but Arklow Abbey presumably isn't. I had therefore wondered if there was another way - if they do actually do it based only on oral guidance by radio, they deserve even more credit than appears from the vid. Oh, and I forgot the first time to say: Many thanks, ShipSpotting Nederland, great vid.

Cool!

Volgens mij geen schade hoor...

Yes!

No :-) it's an inspection ship owned (at the time, it's retired now) by the Province of Groningen, for inspecting the waterways and to serve as a guide boat to water-related events. it's basically performing escort duties here, like warning bridge operators and captains of ships and boats coming the other way so the Arklow Abbey is not forced into any sudden maneuvres. It's basically performing the same duties of what you would expect of the leading escort car of a convoi exceptionel road truck hauling outsized freight: clearing the way to make a smooth passage for the unwieldly large dead weight the tows are maneuvering through tiny spaces.

Wauw!

Gaaf!

ShipSpotting Nederland ja dat was gezellig