Spotting both the V-shaped and turbulent wake of a faraway ship on a calm day
The title says it all, I guess ;-) In the picture above, you can still see the ship on the left, and having seen the ship, I am sure you…
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Windy days at Holtenau locks: Now THAT’s a turbulent wake!
Now that the weather is nice and sunny again, here is what it looked like only last Saturday. It wasn’t even really stormy, but windy enough so that the ships…
Sightseeing in Berlin? Any excuse for a #wavewatching trip!
Berlin is full of interesting history to discover … for example that of ships that have gone past on the Spree! :-D Let’s start with some easy wave watching. In…
Long-distance wave watching during sunset
Have you ever noticed how much you can observe when you look at water from a distance? For example in these pictures, you see the tracks of ships that are…
More wave watching, this time in Kiel
Beautiful morning arriving back in Kiel… Looking downwind, the weather might seem pleasant (especially when focussing on the sunrise). But looking upwind however, the wind rows on the water as…
Sunset wave watching in Gothenburg. Wakes under different light conditions!
Wave watching from high up gives you a whole new perspective on wakes, and depending on the lighting, features in the wave field become more prominent or fade away. See…
Empty ships
I know I wrote about it last time I sailed to Gothenburg, too, but empty ships look weird! But watching ships and ports is always so much fun :-)
Refraction of light in ship exhausts
Leaving the port of Gothenburg after our mini cruise, A and I obviously had to secure the prime spot for wake watching because I wanted to check out more of…
Wakes and what they do to the sun’s reflection
When I said that wake watching made me happy last week, did you really think those were all the wakes I was going to show you? Ha! No, I have…
Reflected wake
The best ship-watching of the year happens during Kiel Week (even if I do a fair bit of ship-watching year round ;-)) But this year, I was absolutely fascinated with…