GeoGarage blog: The Bridge 2017 : Queen Mary II, how to enter in a shoe box

Sunday, June 25, 2017

The Bridge 2017 : Queen Mary II, how to enter in a shoe box

Queen Mary 2 to race lightweight trimarans in The Bridge 2017

The race will mark the 100th anniversary

of American troops landing in France during World War I.

The data of the issue : Queen Mary (345 m / 41 m) versus the Joubert lock (350 m / 50 m.)
The ship must enter in for parking...

Fantastic job by the maritime pilots of La Loire
other video (Mer & Marine)

In front of the Joubert lock

Ready to enter

That's it !

Views from W4D 2.0 iOS mobile app with display of the dimensions of the ship.

You can notice some shift in the display of the ship localization, probably due to the unspecified manually registered data setting sent by the QM2 AIS transceiver (XY offset of the AIS GPS antenna position compared to the ship geometry) : see reference point.
The width for display is the waterline beam (41 m) and not the one at the bridge level (45 m).
Length: 1,132 ft (345.03 m)
Beam :135 ft (41 m) waterline VS 147.5 ft (45.0 m) extreme (bridge wings)
so a difference of width of 4 m, around 8% of the Joubert lock width.
Ship dimensions and AIS GPS antenna reference point should be obtained from AIS Class A within a 1 minute (in worst cases it might be up to 6 minutes by AIS IEC 61993 Ed2 standard).
It is recommended to use the ‘Conning Station’ position at the midship line,
Conning Station reference point (CRP) is the main reference point and GPS data recalculates to the specified Conning Station Position.