We need to fit a GoPro to the anchor one day! Or at least to the anchors chain itself, I always wanted to see how beautiful it is when the anchor makes contact with the sea floor. I love Anchor Handling Tug Support vessels. I first thought of becoming a crew member aboard one, but my heart yearned for me to be a assistant principal, so I’m the assistant principal at my private high school were I graduated from in 1993!
One of the best anchor handling videos I have seen. I am curious, what do you do with the anchor on deck, other than repositioning the platform. And informative and enjoyable video, thank you very much.
This was my first job back in 1997. I worked for a company out of Morgan city called acher marine. I helped set anchors for many rigs. I wouldn't say I miss it.
@Dr Evil small world indeed. When I walked on the kodiak I couldn't believe who big she was but like you said chouest blew that out the water. They're the new gulf Mafia
A pendant (as in jewelry) line is shackled from the bottom of the buoy usually via a 'pigtail' ( a small section of similar sized wire about 8-10ft long, this allows a little maneuverability when it comes to disconnecting the buoy) the pendant (sometimes more than one joined together dependent on water depth) lead s down to the anchor. . A suitcase wire or line (sometimes called a suitcase pendant) as in this case, passes through the buoy obviating the need for a whole lot of shackles and handling. This is usually much safer and quicker and suitcase buoys/lines are nearly always fitted to vessels that can pipelay, and often move in short spurts whilst laying the pipe. Quicker and easier to handle. It is unusual to 'deck' a suitcase buoy but occasionally the operator may want it decked if it is to be re-run over subsea pipelines and assets. In this case the anchor needed to be decked to disconnect as there appears to be a midline buoy that to has to be removed (the black Yokohama type) that is is in the the mooring array , this was probably position by clamp usually to keep the anchor wire clear of the seabed and other subsea assets.
@@oleyholmes1989 Good day. Normally the vessel would slowly steam ahead whilst slacking off the anchor pendant wire (the barge would have the brake set on the anchor winch for this anchor wire). The effect is the anchor is dragged back over the stern roller. After a position check the vessel would be requested to lower the anchor to the seabed. Often as not the barge would then tension up the anchor wire to test if the anchor was holding. Another position check, and if it was considered to be holding (sometimes the anchor is set down and the barge would just instruct the vessel to connect and launch the buoy without a holding test) then the vessel would be asked to carry on moving ahead until they launched the buoy over the stern. Whilst the connection is being made between the buoy pigtail and anchor pendant the pendant wire is held in a 'karm fork' or 'sharks jaw' or similar, where the pendant end wire socket sits behind the fork. . This fork is on a retractable ram that protrudes above and retracts into the deck adjacent to the stern roller and when ready the fork is retracted down below the deck. releasing the buoy. Loads of stuff on youtube on this equipment. It's been some years since I last had the pleasure (dubious though it was) of anchor handling so doubtless methodology has been changed/improved. So please excuse my convoluted explanation.
@@oleyholmes1989 That's it. The barge keeps its winch brake on. The vessel moves ahead slacking off the pendant wire and the anchor is skidded down the deck until it overboatfs.
I'm kinda guessing you don't get this stuff at Grainger. I didn't even know stuff like this existed. Good vid and camera work. Appreciate the descriptions. Cool the way the wire guides retract into the deck. Who knew?
TIPS: Make life easer for yourself by setting a hook to trip hook on the end of a fixed chain on deck. When the weight comes on the buoy as it slide down the deck the strop releases without any need for a tugger or human interaction via tuggers etc, much easier and works a dream. Second tip, I saw the deck lads fumbling around with an aluminium boat hook to catch the buoy strop when catching the buoy on the stern roller, there is no need for this at all. Use the aluminium pole with a fabricated steel hook with a steel eye/ring on the opposite side to the hook direction. slide it into the work end of aluminium pole. Attach a 15mm poly/manilla rope line onto the eye/ring twice the length of the pole. One man (1) hooks onto the strop and discards the pole, the other man (2) maintains control of the rope. Man (1) then attends with man (2) to heave the strop under control onto the work wire hook. PS get ride of the shackles in the buoy strops they add unnecessary weight. (a life time of experience), was the pipe laying barge the Castoro7?
deskpot1 Then you do the okey cokey and you turn around etc etc & where F*** did Man 3 go? That's what I want to know, was he putting the left eye grommet futtock splice IN when it should have been OUT?..🤔
you are a mister know it all, from what I saw the whole operation was pretty slick, and I can say that as someone who handled hundreds of anchors each from the castoro otto, castoro 10, and crawler, I actually decked all of the anchors of the castoro 7 for inspection purposes one time, completed 50+ semi rig shifts, dozens of jack up rig shifts, 4 years of tug and barge work, in all ranks in the deck dept excluding master. you'd have to be pretty checky to walk on a boat and pick the lads apart like that, you'd be told about it if you walked aboard the anchor handlers I worked aboard, especially if the boys were always at the anchors. and with regards to the extra jewelry in the system this could be policy and procedure related. that being said it is my experience that it is always wiser to have your trip line hook attached to a tugger to give you the option to trip in differing areas of the deck as ops dictate, such as mooring equipment stored on deck. and I have also noted with fixed trip hook set ups it can occasionally require too much weight to trip them.
Jasper B its a pipe laying barge. If I remember well she was ballasted in that condition and we were clearing the anchor pattern after completiom of the project.
Just a thought ... I understand the purpose of wearing high Visibility clothing, but shouldn't it be another colour than the Buoy and ship? Just a thought.
Seems a bit dodgy at 1:55 running a slip hook through the guides? Fair enough it makes it easier to splash the buoy but if it gets hung up the buoy is away, is this the normal way to run lay barge anchors?
@Dr Evil . A pendant (as in jewelry) line is shackled from the bottom of the buoy usually via a 'pigtail' ( a small section of similar sized wire about 8-10ft long, this allows a little maneuverability when it comes to disconnecting the buoy) the pendant (sometimes more than one joined together dependent on water depth) lead s down to the anchor. . A suitcase wire or line (sometimes called a suitcase pendant) as in this case, passes through the buoy obviating the need for a whole lot of shackles and handling. This is usually much safer and quicker and suitcase buoys/lines are nearly always fitted to vessels that can pipelay, and often move in short spurts whilst laying the pipe. Quicker and easier to handle. It is unusual to 'deck' a suitcase buoy but occasionally the operator may want it decked if it is to be re-run over subsea pipelines and assets. In this case the anchor needed to be decked to disconnect as there appears to be a midline buoy that to has to be removed (the black Yokohama type) that is is in the the mooring array , this was probably position by clamp usually to keep the anchor wire clear of the seabed and other subsea assets.
@Dr Evil There is no bigger chain to the 'semi'. Castoro 7 has anchor wires. The only chain in this assembly is the short chain tail shackled to the anchor shank? In the video the buoy is picked up by catching the buoy pick up sling of which there is one each side of the buoy. The buoy is heaved on deck using the work wire then the work wire is transferred to the spelter socket which is attached to the top end of the suitcase pendant wire to heave in the anchor.
@Dr Evil, Greetings, the C7 had many iterations of names. Began as the Viking Piper I believe. I started with Zapata Marine Service (George Bush seniors old firm)in the 70's when they first moved to the N Sea. Wandered around the world with them for thirteen years then joined Swire Pacific Offshore for a while before moving ashore Never really left the offshore business until 'covid' took charge and now the the old bones are playing up. I did spend several years working out of Houston and had many a visit to Amelia (MrDermotts yard), Morgan City, Houma, Fourchon, Aransas Paas, Galveston, Theodore (Al) and all ports/ yards along the Gomex. I recall the rafts of boats laid up (and that was during the second or third round of layups ) when I took the short cut drive from Houma down to Port Fourchon I used to stop at look at the lines of vessels trying to remember if or where I had come across one or two, there were that many , no chance. They world was littered up with boats stacked (and rigs) then as you know. The job was serious work, long hours, dangerous at times, exciting in others, and loads of travel.. Sounds a bit selfish but I think we had the best of it. The last chain moored rig (she was a semi) I worked with had been converted to a 'flotel' (in Brownsville Tx in 2006 after years of layup) originally she was the old Penrod 83 born around 1970 and turned into razorblades in Turkey circa 2015. It's a new world now offshore and the youngsters are welcome to it. Take it easy, get your covid jab, it's getting rough out there. rgds CA
@Dr Evil Greetings, yep still got all ten but had both wrists busted (they are okay now) Worked with the 'Jack Bates' many years ago. She went to make razorblades couple of years years back. First saw the Otis (later Halliburton plus others got into the scene) 'lift boats' down off Nigeria. Such was the demand in that neck of the woods for 'salty dogs' to do the work, McDermotts (Jaramac boats), Tidewater, Arthur Levy (mostly called something Seahorse, like the Lavaca Seahorse, Laguna Seahorse etc,). used to poach crews. Get ashore for a beer and there was always an offer for $10-$15 a day more if you returned from your off of days and went to work for them. Was doing vessel inspections up to a couple of years back. Not saying we worked in the 'good old days' but for sure they were far better than the bureaucratic, politically correct, nonsense around these days.
Which company is operating in Venezuela? Like a curiosity, that's all . I'm engineer and sometimes I'm fixing AHTS vessels. I have an video about a speed test . Amaizing video, by the way!
Not a vessels anchor, it is for a oil rig,this is a large offshore supply vessel/ anchor hauler, 4 anchor are set out to hold the drilling rig in place and then pulled up to be relocated.
thats a semi submersible pipelay barge, the Viking Piper laying pipe. The slope to the sea is the stinger or exit ramp for pipeline from the barge to the sea floor.
We need to fit a GoPro to the anchor one day! Or at least to the anchors chain itself, I always wanted to see how beautiful it is when the anchor makes contact with the sea floor. I love Anchor Handling Tug Support vessels. I first thought of becoming a crew member aboard one, but my heart yearned for me to be a assistant principal, so I’m the assistant principal at my private high school were I graduated from in 1993!
Excellent 'How It's Done!" video! Short, concise, descriptive and well annotated. Thank you to the producer. Much appreciated!
That is a very good video, thank you for keeping it on UA-cam. Good job, lads!
One of the best anchor handling videos I have seen. I am curious, what do you do with the anchor on deck, other than repositioning the platform. And informative and enjoyable video, thank you very much.
This was my first job back in 1997. I worked for a company out of Morgan city called acher marine. I helped set anchors for many rigs. I wouldn't say I miss it.
@Dr Evil I heard of all the great adventures of the 80's my uncle and all of his friends came up at delmar at that time
@Dr Evil you know donny clark, Jeff pucket, hollywood, storm Brewer, Wes frintz?
@Dr Evil my first job was on the kodiak
@Dr Evil small world indeed. When I walked on the kodiak I couldn't believe who big she was but like you said chouest blew that out the water. They're the new gulf Mafia
I was out there in 82 on the lady C and the miss Tenue . engineer on standby boats. Stood by Amocco rigs verm 310 b many wild stories from those days
Very good video for guys without experience! Thx
2:13 I almost thought it was a toy, it’s really cool How perspective changes what you perceive
A pendant (as in jewelry) line is shackled from the bottom of the buoy usually via a 'pigtail' ( a small section of similar sized wire about 8-10ft long, this allows a little maneuverability when it comes to disconnecting the buoy) the pendant (sometimes more than one joined together dependent on water depth) lead s down to the anchor. . A suitcase wire or line (sometimes called a suitcase pendant) as in this case, passes through the buoy obviating the need for a whole lot of shackles and handling. This is usually much safer and quicker and suitcase buoys/lines are nearly always fitted to vessels that can pipelay, and often move in short spurts whilst laying the pipe. Quicker and easier to handle. It is unusual to 'deck' a suitcase buoy but occasionally the operator may want it decked if it is to be re-run over subsea pipelines and assets. In this case the anchor needed to be decked to disconnect as there appears to be a midline buoy that to has to be removed (the black Yokohama type) that is is in the the mooring array , this was probably position by clamp usually to keep the anchor wire clear of the seabed and other subsea assets.
Thank you - I had no idea what was going on here
@@oleyholmes1989 Good day. Normally the vessel would slowly steam ahead whilst slacking off the anchor pendant wire (the barge would have the brake set on the anchor winch for this anchor wire). The effect is the anchor is dragged back over the stern roller. After a position check the vessel would be requested to lower the anchor to the seabed. Often as not the barge would then tension up the anchor wire to test if the anchor was holding. Another position check, and if it was considered to be holding (sometimes the anchor is set down and the barge would just instruct the vessel to connect and launch the buoy without a holding test) then the vessel would be asked to carry on moving ahead until they launched the buoy over the stern.
Whilst the connection is being made between the buoy pigtail and anchor pendant the pendant wire is held in a 'karm fork' or 'sharks jaw' or similar, where the pendant end wire socket sits behind the fork. . This fork is on a retractable ram that protrudes above and retracts into the deck adjacent to the stern roller and when ready the fork is retracted down below the deck. releasing the buoy. Loads of stuff on youtube on this equipment.
It's been some years since I last had the pleasure (dubious though it was) of anchor handling so doubtless methodology has been changed/improved. So please excuse my convoluted explanation.
@@oleyholmes1989 That's it. The barge keeps its winch brake on. The vessel moves ahead slacking off the pendant wire and the anchor is skidded down the deck until it overboatfs.
That's exactly how we do it at our house
Very serious work, You Men have a very dangerous job, but i could see it in someway exciting and very challenging.
Wow! Great teamwork!
My dad ran anchor handling tugs in the Gulf of Mexico in the late 70s and through the 80s. He said it could be very exciting at times.
I was there it was wild
Thanks for posting.
that's a dandy buoy with those wheels and all !
Total ABK , Memory ....
Thanks ....
I'm kinda guessing you don't get this stuff at Grainger. I didn't even know stuff like this existed. Good vid and camera work. Appreciate the descriptions. Cool the way the wire guides retract into the deck. Who knew?
Very interesting!
Anchor handlers! Hard working men! I also work on a anchor handler
Stian Hansen To sit in the galley peeling potatoes does not count.
that isn't true about all cooks
The whole family is here today: Henry Hindsight, Harry Helper, and Crystal Clarity:
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And I, Captain Captainsomething.
I use the same buoy when crabbing in the bay😉😉
4:46. How did you pull the anchor to back at sea? What equipment did you use? And thanks for this video. It is very useful for a trainee and begginer.
What wire you use for decking the buoy? By tugger or by work wire? Tks
Wooowww..great blue
TIPS: Make life easer for yourself by setting a hook to trip hook on the end of a fixed chain on deck. When the weight comes on the buoy as it slide down the deck the strop releases without any need for a tugger or human interaction via tuggers etc, much easier and works a dream. Second tip, I saw the deck lads fumbling around with an aluminium boat hook to catch the buoy strop when catching the buoy on the stern roller, there is no need for this at all. Use the aluminium pole with a fabricated steel hook with a steel eye/ring on the opposite side to the hook direction. slide it into the work end of aluminium pole. Attach a 15mm poly/manilla rope line onto the eye/ring twice the length of the pole. One man (1) hooks onto the strop and discards the pole, the other man (2) maintains control of the rope. Man (1) then attends with man (2) to heave the strop under control onto the work wire hook. PS get ride of the shackles in the buoy strops they add unnecessary weight. (a life time of experience), was the pipe laying barge the Castoro7?
deskpot1 Then you do the okey cokey and you turn around etc etc & where F*** did Man 3 go? That's what I want to know, was he putting the left eye grommet futtock splice IN when it should have been OUT?..🤔
That's what it's all about!
very slow operation for anchor layers and not u.s or u.k
you are a mister know it all, from what I saw the whole operation was pretty slick, and I can say that as someone who handled hundreds of anchors each from the castoro otto, castoro 10, and crawler, I actually decked all of the anchors of the castoro 7 for inspection purposes one time, completed 50+ semi rig shifts, dozens of jack up rig shifts, 4 years of tug and barge work, in all ranks in the deck dept excluding master. you'd have to be pretty checky to walk on a boat and pick the lads apart like that, you'd be told about it if you walked aboard the anchor handlers I worked aboard, especially if the boys were always at the anchors. and with regards to the extra jewelry in the system this could be policy and procedure related. that being said it is my experience that it is always wiser to have your trip line hook attached to a tugger to give you the option to trip in differing areas of the deck as ops dictate, such as mooring equipment stored on deck. and I have also noted with fixed trip hook set ups it can occasionally require too much weight to trip them.
Sounds bad
Thanks for info
In Ak on the 68ft Donna Marie i helped set anchors in the Soldotna river
Good handling
what happend to the oil plantform at 3:28 it looks like its tilting to its sidev
Jasper B its a pipe laying barge. If I remember well she was ballasted in that condition and we were clearing the anchor pattern after completiom of the project.
I remember in 1961 we2here moving drilling humble sm-1 we got tug crane put anchor on tug took whole aft deck and we keep asking how where going off.
very good for disabled person. keep it up. good for you.
Vou até me inscrever , gostei de VER ...
Just a thought ...
I understand the purpose of wearing high Visibility clothing, but shouldn't it be another colour than the Buoy and ship? Just a thought.
Totally agree, but I guess it´s only for when going overboard. But as you said, crew teamwork and visibility must be of highest importance.
its to look different than water, obviously if it was an issue someone wouldve changed it in the last 50 years
10/10 would recommend
Seems a bit dodgy at 1:55 running a slip hook through the guides? Fair enough it makes it easier to splash the buoy but if it gets hung up the buoy is away, is this the normal way to run lay barge anchors?
Que tri ...bem interessante ...
The caption says 'picking up the suitcase wire' . That is the buoy wire not the suitcase wire which is hooked up after the buoy is decked
@Dr Evil . A pendant (as in jewelry) line is shackled from the bottom of the buoy usually via a 'pigtail' ( a small section of similar sized wire about 8-10ft long, this allows a little maneuverability when it comes to disconnecting the buoy) the pendant (sometimes more than one joined together dependent on water depth) lead s down to the anchor. . A suitcase wire or line (sometimes called a suitcase pendant) as in this case, passes through the buoy obviating the need for a whole lot of shackles and handling. This is usually much safer and quicker and suitcase buoys/lines are nearly always fitted to vessels that can pipelay, and often move in short spurts whilst laying the pipe. Quicker and easier to handle. It is unusual to 'deck' a suitcase buoy but occasionally the operator may want it decked if it is to be re-run over subsea pipelines and assets. In this case the anchor needed to be decked to disconnect as there appears to be a midline buoy that to has to be removed (the black Yokohama type) that is is in the the mooring array , this was probably position by clamp usually to keep the anchor wire clear of the seabed and other subsea assets.
@Dr Evil There is no bigger chain to the 'semi'. Castoro 7 has anchor wires. The only chain in this assembly is the short chain tail shackled to the anchor shank? In the video the buoy is picked up by catching the buoy pick up sling of which there is one each side of the buoy. The buoy is heaved on deck using the work wire then the work wire is transferred to the spelter socket which is attached to the top end of the suitcase pendant wire to heave in the anchor.
@Dr Evil, Greetings, the C7 had many iterations of names. Began as the Viking Piper I believe. I started with Zapata Marine Service (George Bush seniors old firm)in the 70's when they first moved to the N Sea. Wandered around the world with them for thirteen years then joined Swire Pacific Offshore for a while before moving ashore Never really left the offshore business until 'covid' took charge and now the the old bones are playing up. I did spend several years working out of Houston and had many a visit to Amelia (MrDermotts yard), Morgan City, Houma, Fourchon, Aransas Paas, Galveston, Theodore (Al) and all ports/ yards along the Gomex. I recall the rafts of boats laid up (and that was during the second or third round of layups ) when I took the short cut drive from Houma down to Port Fourchon I used to stop at look at the lines of vessels trying to remember if or where I had come across one or two, there were that many , no chance. They world was littered up with boats stacked (and rigs) then as you know. The job was serious work, long hours, dangerous at times, exciting in others, and loads of travel.. Sounds a bit selfish but I think we had the best of it.
The last chain moored rig (she was a semi) I worked with had been converted to a 'flotel' (in Brownsville Tx in 2006 after years of layup) originally she was the old Penrod 83 born around 1970 and turned into razorblades in Turkey circa 2015. It's a new world now offshore and the youngsters are welcome to it. Take it easy, get your covid jab, it's getting rough out there.
rgds CA
@Dr Evil Greetings, yep still got all ten but had both wrists busted (they are okay now) Worked with the 'Jack Bates' many years ago. She went to make razorblades couple of years years back. First saw the Otis (later Halliburton plus others got into the scene) 'lift boats' down off Nigeria. Such was the demand in that neck of the woods for 'salty dogs' to do the work, McDermotts (Jaramac boats), Tidewater, Arthur Levy (mostly called something Seahorse, like the Lavaca Seahorse, Laguna Seahorse etc,). used to poach crews. Get ashore for a beer and there was always an offer for $10-$15 a day more if you returned from your off of days and went to work for them. Was doing vessel inspections up to a couple of years back. Not saying we worked in the 'good old days' but for sure they were far better than the bureaucratic, politically correct, nonsense around these days.
That's Big.
cool vid
Pretty cool
So how does it pull back? Just tension on the line?
Exactly, the tug moves slowly forward
Commentary needed for us landlubbers.
Amen, Colonel Sanders!
Are you spraying water on the deck for lubrication, or for cooling?
To keep it clean
To get rid of any mud that's sticking on the wires and anchor. It get's real slippery on deck for the guys once it gets muddy.
we can learn from here
Whatever these guys make, they can have; it's all fun in calm seas but wait til things start moving around...
One of the most dangerous job of seafarer, specially bad weather conditions..keep safe brother's
Normally I just do all that by hand ,might wear a pair of gloves when it’s chilly ;)
kķ
Superman working on a boat again 🤔
When I do this I always pull the black thing in before the orange thing, then the metal thing last. I think it's better that way.
How do we call that types of bouying? Anyone can answered pls!
Just wondering why these guys have no safety harness when they are exposed at the stern opening?
If they are restrained by a safety harness they can't get out of the way quick enough when things go south.
Anything coming in over the stern will wash them up the deck towards the winch house.
what is this ship looks nice
Which company is operating in Venezuela? Like a curiosity, that's all .
I'm engineer and sometimes I'm fixing AHTS vessels. I have an video about a speed test .
Amaizing video, by the way!
This was a project with all foreign companies (US, German, Dutch). We used Willemstad, Curaçao as base port.
I love my dog
It seems hard to check your Instagram while you doing all this
You don't need too, this is much more exciting.
Is that a swest boat I used to mate on the patriot Gary swest 80 ft sport fish just fyi
Why do they need to handle anchors for other vessels?
Not a vessels anchor, it is for a oil rig,this is a large offshore supply vessel/ anchor hauler, 4 anchor are set out to hold the drilling rig in place and then pulled up to be relocated.
Что это, кто скажет?
Такой же вопрос?
AHTS yeahh
Why tho? 🤔
... a bóia tem rodas é novo ...
2:38 that platform in the back looks like it's collapsing or something? 🤔
Assassin Mongoose not a platform, it's a barge. I think it's laying something.
the anchor that you see in the vid is attached to that pipe laying barge, it isn't a platform
thats a semi submersible pipelay barge, the Viking Piper laying pipe. The slope to the sea is the stinger or exit ramp for pipeline from the barge to the sea floor.
This is in my recommended?
where the strong wamen of power in this job ?
мужики - на корюшку пойдет такой поплавок?
... ca no de brinquedo os homens manusearam a coneccao do estripo
Oh buoy
...go back to bed, dad!
I'm supposed to be working...
что это все и зачем, кто знает - скажите
Показана работа специализированного судна, которое заводит один из якорей морской буровой платформы, позиционируя платформу над точкой бурения.
ใช้แม็คโคหลายคัน
RRRRRRRRR ya call that an anchor.
wiadomo że to Pudzian ciągnał
шо, все, провтыкали якорь? как же все у вас не просто...
Anybody, could do that it looks easy. What’s the big deal?
ну... все понятно)
И чё эта за хуйня. Они что вообще там делают кто нибудь объяснить может.это ананизм
เอาทุนไหนไปลาย
ให้ดินไปขุดกับจอบ
Очень интересно, но нихуя не понятно!
Что это за хрень такая была ? Для чего ???
Don't even know what the title means?
No seguridade
คนละเรื่องกันกับดีไม่ดี
Листай дальше
บัตรเครดิตเอาของไม่ดีไปใช้
Что тут происходило ? Достали ролики не понятную конструкцию и бочку а для чего всё это ?
ทำงานไม่เป็น
It's a glorified Danforth...
Hey! Awesome video, we would love to feature you on our Supercar Blondie page, do you have an email i can reach out on?