#careening

[ltwilliammowett]

How were ships' bottoms cleaned in the Age of Sail?

Hi, the ship was laid on its side, which is also called careening. Careening, is the turning or rolling of a vessel around its longitudinal axis so that one side of the lower hull and keel - the lowest part of a watercraft - is exposed for cleaning or repair. Incidentally, the term "heaving down" was used in the past. This required either a beach, a shipyard or a careening shipyard. If this was done on a beach, the ship's guns could be moved to the shore and used as anchor points, but a wharf in a shipyard was preferred because it was equipped with the capstans and rigging needed to haul the ship in.

HMS 'Formidable' careened in Malta Dockyard, 31 January 1843. The second rate warship ‘Formidable’ is shown being careened at the dockyard in the Grand Harbour at Malta. By Quintanas, J, 1843 (x)

The next step was to lighten the ship by removing unnecessary materials and putting them into temporary storage ashore. After all the sails, running rigging, ropes and most of the yards had been removed, the ship's three-part masts - consisting of lower mast, upper mast and topgallant mast - were dismantled down to the lower third. Then the crew members lifted the sledge-mounted guns from the deck, fastened the main and fore hulls with ropes and cordage, laid them on the quay and rolled them into storage. All the cargo and barrels of provisions were also lifted from the ship's hold and rolled ashore. The crew members who were in the bottom of the ship passed the iron shot and most of the ballast stones to a number of shipmates, who passed them on and stacked them ashore. Only a portion of the ballast, determined by the captain, was left in the hold to maintain the ship's balance. The lower gun ports were sealed, reinforced and made watertight. Numerous thick wooden booms were also installed, up to 61 cm in diameter and 12 m long. The ship was then pulled with ropes, blocks and the capstan to lay it on its side.

Now, standing on a floating platform connected to the ship, the carpenter could inspect the hull and determine the extent of repairs needed.

This work could include removing rotten or damaged planks and installing new ones, or replacing the sacrificial keel that protected the actual keel from damage.But also all the livestock that had settled on the hull was removed.And the chaulking was done, with ship's caulkers with special hammers tapping dense stands of tar-soaked oak into the seams to keep the water out. When all the repairs and cleaning were completed on one side, the ship was put back into the water, turned around and the process repeated on the other side. when all the sides were finished, everything could be loaded and reassembled and the ship was put back into the water.

So, I think that should be it for the moment, if you want to know more just let me know

[crepuscular-haze]

Splash Zone activity at the Monterey Bay Aquarium but it’s just getting pushed headfirst into the ocean off of a giant cliff

[dustedmagazine]

Hammered Hulls — Careening (Dischord)

Careening by Hammered Hulls

Hammered Hulls raises the ghosts of 1990s DC post-punk with taut explosions of guitar, the merciless propulsion of picked bass, fire storms of percussion and an angsty poetic yowl. A super group of sorts, the band brings together lifelong punks Alex Mackaye (of Untouchables, the Faith, Ignition, the Warmers, and yes, Ian’s little brother), Mary Timony from Helium and Wild Flag on bass, Mark Cisneros (Chain and the Gang, Des Demonas and others) and Chris Wilson on drums. The band released a three-song self-titled EP in 2019, which shares one song, “Written Words,” with this album. The four of them worked on this album, off and on, during the pandemic, but there’s little evidence of COVID-related lassitude. Their onslaught here is tight, disciplined, and ferocious, the aggression stuffed down into a narrow-gauge barrel for targeted destruction.

The album starts with “Boilermaker’s Notch,” all thrashing precision, the guitar mostly tamped to a tense grey rumble, but allowed to ring in bright, rainbow-colored power chords at the end of phrases. Wilson’s drumming is disruptive. He executes frantic, off-balance fills, then settles into a double-timed gallop. And MacKaye shouts short, koan-like couplets into a gaping void. “It’s ringing in my ear,” he finishes, and yeah, ours too, in the best possible way.

Hammered Hulls engages with issues in an oblique but feral way. “Rights and Reproduction” lurches through staccato thickets of guitar and bass, its refrain of “Permission requested…Permission denied,” a rallying cry amid thorny bursts of politically charged poetry. It’s got to be about Dobbs, but not in any direct way. The throb of Mary Timony’s bass near the end is like a migraine building, unbearably tense and confining.

The music is tight and driven, but it has its intervals of lyricism, where the guitar chords arc out anthemically and the barbed-wire starkness breaks for something akin to beauty. The guitar-slashing, drum bashing, bass pulsing breaks in “Needlepoint Tiger,” sound more like math-y post-rock than punk; they’re exciting and elevating. “Abstract City,” too, has a grand, enveloping surge; its instrumental sounds come in like a tide rolling in and up to your knees. MacKaye is mostly a barker, a ranter, a howler, but he has his moments of D. Boon-ish introspection, especially on the closer “Mission Statement.”

The point is that Hammered Hull can crank out a classic DC post-punk when it wants to, but it can do a lot of other things, too. Barbed wire and paranoia break for intervals of unexpected beauty—and vice versa. The lines are clean and the intensity undeniable.

Jennifer Kelly

[lebuc]

careening

* done careening from starboard to port, starting to detach from the effort to stan, qualify, identify with a side through churning waves & unceasing tides

by the might of the silvery moon's loom 'neath twilight's bedside, clearly in some excess of a lame influencer’s quest for our consciousness expressed in faux-druidic tomes & 'see here' drones, seeking to endear though tongue-in-cheek rear ending...

never fear - this inkster is never intending to sip from the fount of the insipidly trending - in fact - the only bending in my crew are from elbows, quaffing some celestial brew and/or an edible or two;

y’all as well?  well then good for you!     *   4/23 - lebuc - careening

[captainflirt]

Walrus careening

[priatefacts]

To Careen or not to Careen

Most pirates, when it came time to careen their ship (that is, to beach their vessel to make repairs and clean the hull) for maintenance, would simply steal another ship. This is because careening put them and their crew in a vulnerable position, and they could be easily attacked. However, if a pirate was very attached to their ship, they would likely go through the effort to careen their ship.

[oledavyjones]

careening

[themagicinmypen]

Careening

I am dazed,

Mind hazed with mist,

There’s a man I kissed

Who could blow it away,

But he is far away.

I am day dreaming,

Careening to a place

I no longer know;

A whisper I hear,

A song I hear.