Author Topic: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.  (Read 155943 times)

Blodwyn Pig

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Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« on: 09 April, 2014, 07:21:14 pm »

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #1 on: 09 April, 2014, 07:23:41 pm »

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #2 on: 11 April, 2014, 08:00:40 pm »



Dans Broadstairs Sur le Mer. 
Happened to be walking past , taking too much interest, and was accosted by the fella 'what painted it'.  ''Apparently, but keep this amongst 'yerselves', it's bin 'ired by Vogue magazine for one of them photo shoot fings, but shhhh!''

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #3 on: 11 April, 2014, 08:07:50 pm »
Hold on - that last one doesn't have a bike in the shot!

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #4 on: 11 April, 2014, 08:09:21 pm »
this is gallery OT   ::-)

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« Reply #5 on: 11 April, 2014, 08:11:39 pm »
Didn't stop you in the first two pics :)

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #6 on: 12 April, 2014, 12:47:01 am »

Kathleen Ann

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #7 on: 12 April, 2014, 09:39:15 am »

IMG_0306
by The Pingus, on Flickr

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #8 on: 12 April, 2014, 01:22:47 pm »

Kathleen Ann


That is loverly. just needs a torn canopy and a couple of torpedos poking out the front. (African Queen)

mcshroom

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #9 on: 12 April, 2014, 02:57:55 pm »

HMS Unicorn
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David Martin

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #10 on: 13 April, 2014, 09:54:22 pm »

HMS Unicorn
A ship commissioned for a war which was over before it was launched. So they never fitted it with masts but kept it mothballed. When the next war came along it was obsolete so used as admiralty offices.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #11 on: 14 April, 2014, 12:48:53 pm »
<i>Marmite slave</i>

T42

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #12 on: 14 April, 2014, 02:19:16 pm »


Dutch barge on the Rhine/Marne canal.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #13 on: 14 April, 2014, 04:14:16 pm »

HMS Unicorn
Captain Flint needed a few spare rooms for his monkeys and parrots.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #14 on: 14 April, 2014, 07:49:02 pm »


Old ex-Soviet sub. used to be moored down at Folkestone harbour, but now sits rotting away in Rochester.

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #15 on: 15 April, 2014, 01:43:00 am »
It was parked at Woolwich for a while too - can still see the tourist info signs for it, taped over.

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #16 on: 15 April, 2014, 03:53:26 pm »


Dutch barge on the Rhine/Marne canal.

That's *very* similar to our boat (which is a groningen boltjalk), just smaller. I'm guessing but I think the boat in your pic is about 45-50ft long.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #17 on: 16 April, 2014, 09:52:54 pm »

A replica of the Gokstad ship built in 1998 for an Atlantic crossing project that never quite happened (at Haroldswick, Unst)


and a somewhat smaller replica, in seaworthy condition (Lerwick)

David Martin

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #18 on: 16 April, 2014, 10:54:43 pm »
There are some fantastic coastal boat designs in Norway and shetland that mirror the ownderful lines of a longship. One of the most awesome maritime experiences is to visit the vikinskipene museum on Bygdøy, Oslo and just marvel at the sheer beauty of thousand year old ships that crossed oceans. The cathedral - like setting really amplifies the emotion.
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Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #19 on: 20 April, 2014, 01:10:45 pm »



In Queenborough harbour, Sheppey

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #20 on: 20 April, 2014, 10:53:59 pm »
Similar, but bigger...

A replica of John Cabot's Matthew

I did see a yacht dressed up as a square rigger last year, complete with faux gun ports. Unfortunately it had gone by the time I fetched my camera - presumably through the lock and up towards Worcester.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #21 on: 20 April, 2014, 11:02:52 pm »
How this got into Lac de Vassiviere I'll never know . . .



I was looking for Philip Madoc but couldn't see him anywhere.

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clarion

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #22 on: 26 May, 2014, 03:27:32 pm »
P5254676 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr
Getting there...

nicknack

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #23 on: 26 May, 2014, 10:50:07 pm »



In Queenborough harbour, Sheppey
That's Lee's boat wot he built himself. Looks like him in the first pic with the hat.
There's no vibrations, but wait.

billplumtree

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #24 on: 06 June, 2014, 07:09:05 pm »

In the harbour in Split