It wasn't coming in too quick at all. Paddlers have to keep the speed up as there is no water flow over the rudder at low speed. Reversing is very quick on Waverley so not a problem. Unlike a normal vessel, double rings are very common on Waverley, merely indicating that a response has to be very smartly carried out.
Beautiful! Thank You for sharing. Nothing like the torque of a triple for maneuvering capabilities.
That unmistakable Weir direct acting feed pump in the whining in the background.
KiwiPowerNZ
Greatly missed since the last boiler refit!
I thought that was the sound of the air pump.
I'm going to be buried with my home made kit of her...then a picture of my border collie Willow!.
Love the whale plushies attached to the engine hahaha
KINDA CUTE
Fantastic British Engineering,when we built the World.
Along with the Germans - let's be fair.
A look at the man changing the engine controls would have been interesting.
Didn't see a double ring astern here, the bells ringing at the end were 'finished with engines'!.
cool
Is this standard practice or a British rule that a log book is kept of all engine commands?
It never was the case on Clyde Steamers until more recent times when several incidents with Waverley had the practice imposed by the MCA.
Masya Allah,
It wasn't coming in too quick at all. Paddlers have to keep the speed up as there is no water flow over the rudder at low speed. Reversing is very quick on Waverley so not a problem. Unlike a normal vessel, double rings are very common on Waverley, merely indicating that a response has to be very smartly carried out.