Entering Hells Gate

[banyandah]

Video clip detailing entering the infamous Hell's Gate on the wild wet west coast of Tasmania.

Includes drone footage followed by sail through, with chartlet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvRlEW1l2Ow

[Idylles15.5]

They should try going thru Plum Gut when its blowing 40 from Conn. OOOFFFAAA.

[hellosailor]

Google this:
"undermining the hell gate explosion" or similar.
There's a Hell Gate in NYC. In the years after our Civil War (1870's-80's) it was decided that Hell Gate was just too damned inconvenient, and our Army Corps of Engineers made the world's largest explosion to deal with it. Basically they undermined several acres of the East River, and then pulled the bottom out from under it.
Yankee engineering.

[Idylles15.5]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

Google this:
"undermining the hell gate explosion" or similar.
There's a Hell Gate in NYC. In the years after our Civil War (1870's-80's) it was decided that Hell Gate was just too damned inconvenient, and our Army Corps of Engineers made the world's largest explosion to deal with it. Basically they undermined several acres of the East River, and then pulled the bottom out from under it.
Yankee engineering.

Go through there a few times each summer. One of the worst ferry disasters in history there. Ferry caught on fire and lots of casualties. You can look it up online. Watched a show on it once. Sure you could find it on You Tube

[Idylles15.5]

Burning of the General Slocum. Just pulled it up. Check it out

[groundtackle]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

Google this:

"undermining the hell gate explosion" or similar.

There's a Hell Gate in NYC. In the years after our Civil War (1870's-80's) it was decided that Hell Gate was just too damned inconvenient, and our Army Corps of Engineers made the world's largest explosion to deal with it. Basically they undermined several acres of the East River, and then pulled the bottom out from under it.

Yankee engineering.

Not sure about the “worlds largest explosion” I think the Hells Gate explosion may have been the biggest at the time and held the record for quite a while but the destruction of Ripple Rock, not far from us here in Sidney BC has often been sited as the largest non nuclear explosion on record.
Nick

[groundtackle]

Canadian engineering!

[flippercarson]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

Google this:
"undermining the hell gate explosion" or similar.
There's a Hell Gate in NYC. In the years after our Civil War (1870's-80's) it was decided that Hell Gate was just too damned inconvenient, and our Army Corps of Engineers made the world's largest explosion to deal with it. Basically they undermined several acres of the East River, and then pulled the bottom out from under it.
Yankee engineering.

Sadly, the Halifax explosion dwarfs what they did in NYC. Perhaps the distinction here is planned vs. unplanned.

[Factor]

WTF has all these explosions got to do with entering a harbour in Tasmania

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Factor

WTF has all these explosions got to do with entering a harbour in Tasmania

Depends on how badly you mess up the navigation.

[hellosailor]

Nick-
It was referred to contemporaneously as the world's largest explosion. Which it was.
Sort of like a boxing championship: Once a man has won the championship, he's the champion, and he's won it. And if someone else later goes on to win it...well, that doesn't change who the champ was previously, does it?
So let me add "...at the time."

And you'll have to add "conventional explosives" to whatever other contenders you have in mind, since the Russian "Tzar" nuclear bomb test actually holds the record for biggest explosion period. Offhand that was something like 50 megatons, and would have been 100 megatons, but the designers intentionally sabotaged the final design because they were afraid it might blow the world up. (And they were right, the yield was high enough as it was.)

Factor-
What it has got to do with some harbor in Taz, is that it says if the locals want ships to enter the harbor safely, they can make it happen. What they've got know helps to keep the riffraff out. And no doubt, stray Hawaiian boaters, too.(G)

[Drew13440]

Originally Posted by flippercarson

Sadly, the Halifax explosion dwarfs what they did in NYC. Perhaps the distinction here is planned vs. unplanned.

Agreed. The runner up in the accident department was probably the Texas City Disaster in 1947.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/lyt01

[banyandah]

The Hells Gate in Australia's Tasmania has nothing to do with explosives, nothing at all.
In 1823, the British needed a place to house convicts who re offended after being shipped to Terra Australis, and they found a small island in the nearly landlocked 20 mile long Macquarie Harbour, which was then an isolated place on the wild wet west coast of Tasmania.
The name Hells Gate does not describe the nearly impossible narrow entry, but was a term given by the desperate convicts being transported to a place hundreds of miles from humanity, hemmed in by gigantic mountains and facing the might of the Great Southern Ocean. Many tried to escape as there were no fences, but only one made it across miles of wet rainforest to Hobart, where he was recaptured and sent back. Another ate his fellow escapees, but was captured and hung.
If you're interested in this fascinating and obscure part of the world, read my book, "Two's a Crew" it's in print, or download a copy from our website.
https://jackandjude.com/
Books here

[banyandah]

We "sailed" through Hells Gate a few weeks with a stiff breeze coming over the transom.
And filmed the exciting event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku516KjG9r0

more videos at https://jackandjude.com/freestuff/videoclips/