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ctrlraven
05-12-2009, 06:49 AM
Click on HQ and go full screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xstd3_0usI
W4LTD
05-12-2009, 06:55 AM
That is one fast freighter!;)
FrankJAG
05-12-2009, 07:56 AM
That's cool. Quite a project to put together!
ImpalaSlayer
05-12-2009, 08:30 AM
iuno somethings off, the wakes should be bigger :lol:
Blackened300a
05-12-2009, 08:54 AM
LOL you should see me drive a trailer. ;)
ctrlraven
05-12-2009, 10:16 AM
Video was taken over 3.5 hrs, boat was moving 5-10 knots.
Marauderjack
05-12-2009, 02:58 PM
100x normal speed!!:eek:
SC Cheesehead
05-12-2009, 03:28 PM
That is one fast freighter!;)

Yup, wonder if he could do a 12.9 1/4 mile? :D


That's cool. Quite a project to put together!

+1 Is that the San Jacinto Monument on the right at 2.09 of the clip?
FrankJAG
05-13-2009, 08:43 AM
Sure looks like it now that you mention it!
BAD MERC
05-13-2009, 09:02 AM
It was kinda like being in a 1976 Chrysler Newport on wet roads.
FrankJAG
05-13-2009, 09:13 AM
ROFL quite an analogy!
mrjones
05-13-2009, 12:32 PM
That's pretty cool. You first go under the 610 bridge, then the Beltway 8 bridge, past the San Jacinto monument and the Battleship Texas (it's not lit very well), then under the 146 bridge and then it ends out in Galveston Bay.

I was down there yesterday visiting with a friend of mine who is the police chief for the Port Terminal Railroad. Couple of big gray military ships in there at the time. I like to see my tax dollars at work like that.
guspech750
05-13-2009, 01:05 PM
thats cool!!! i would think going that fast, gas should be cheaper due to quicker shipping times!!!:lol:
FrankJAG
05-13-2009, 01:09 PM
I was down there yesterday visiting with a friend of mine who is the police chief for the Port Terminal Railroad. Couple of big gray military ships in there at the time. I like to see my tax dollars at work like that.

If they ever need public safety equipment for their cars or equipment repair; keep me in mind!
Vortex
05-15-2009, 05:59 AM
Pretty interesting video. The Houston Ship Channel is I think the second busiest port in the US and is strange because its basically just a dredged out river.
mrjones
05-15-2009, 02:42 PM
It's the largest INLAND port in the world. I never saw it during the hurricane, but my buddy there said that the brought the shrimping fleet in there and stacked them up like cord wood for the hurricane last year.