Author Topic: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.  (Read 155955 times)

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #375 on: 08 May, 2018, 03:21:39 pm »
Shoreham-by-Sea has some interesting houseboats, cobbled together from transportation that was never intended to float on water....

That beats my VW Touran on top of a barge any day.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #376 on: 08 June, 2018, 10:51:48 pm »
In Zeebrugge.


IMG_1053_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #377 on: 09 June, 2018, 01:12:04 pm »
That looks quite similar to the one moored on The Medway in Strood



ETA - That picture is from 2007 btw. These days it is more iron oxide, less black in colour. And jauntily listing to starboard.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #378 on: 02 September, 2018, 06:39:10 am »

P9010334 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr


P9010338 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

The "George Black" - ferry across the Mighty Yukon at Dawson City YT


P9010340 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr


P9010342 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr


P9010343 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

SS Keno, one of two surviving Yukon stern-wheelers, now permanently on the bank of the Mighty Yukon in Dawson City.  They stopped running when the road reached Dawson City in 1955.


P9010341 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

The Klondike Spirit paddle steamer.  Tourist boat offering "overpriced and disappointing1" cruises on the Mighty Yukon from Dawson City

1: According to one TripAdvisor review, anyway.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #379 on: 03 September, 2018, 04:02:40 am »

P9020353 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr


P9020354 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr


P9020355 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

SS Klondike (strictly speaking, SS Klondike II as the original ran aground and was cannibalised to build this one).  Big sister of yesterday's SS Keno - 64m long, 12.5m beam, 1m draught when fully loaded.  Being tended this morning by a splendidly piratical-looking chap with a big black beard and an eyepatch.  He looked a bit fierce so I didn't ask him where his parrot was.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #380 on: 30 September, 2018, 07:47:34 pm »
IMG_0267 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_0266 by mark tilley, on Flickr


Spotted in Honfleur harbour.   You must believe me, when I say this was far larger, ( I'd say its a least twice as large as you think it is) and so much more stunning in reality, photos just DO NoT do it justice.

Here it is. http://langskip.com/Langskip.COM/Home.html

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #381 on: 30 September, 2018, 08:05:47 pm »
That’s an amazing looking boat!

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #382 on: 30 September, 2018, 08:36:18 pm »
It's beautiful but I wonder how you can get out of the cockpit to go on decg with the dodger in the way.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #383 on: 18 March, 2019, 06:58:28 pm »
On this morning's commute:


Lovely  :thumbsup:

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #384 on: 18 March, 2019, 07:54:50 pm »
Tis rather.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #385 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:07:09 pm »
Is that the Polish sail training ship ?

I should know this sort of stuff.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #386 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:09:51 pm »
Hmm, and the foresail yard isn't quite lined up. Sloppy.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #387 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:10:51 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Not sure that I'd be wanting to be crewing a boat with you in charge, H.  ;)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #388 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:13:01 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Shouldn't that be Dar Młodzieży? I guess it sounds the same though, so all okay.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #389 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:17:21 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Shouldn't that be Dar Młodzieży? I guess it sounds the same though, so all okay.
Correct.
My keyboard struggles with Polak accents.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #390 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:28:56 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Shouldn't that be Dar Młodzieży? I guess it sounds the same though, so all okay.
Correct.
My keyboard struggles with Polak accents.
I figured it was either keyboard or the kind of spello you make when you don't have to think about it. And people say phonetically spelled languages make writing easier!
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #391 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:33:55 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Not sure that I'd be wanting to be crewing a boat with you in charge, H.  ;)
In the words of my late father (Master Mariner), "There's two ways of doing a job - the wrong way and the right way."

The ship I was on the crew never needed any prompting to make her as ship-shape and as beautiful as possible in port. Point of honour for all concerned.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #392 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:34:05 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Shouldn't that be Dar Młodzieży? I guess it sounds the same though, so all okay.
Correct.
My keyboard struggles with Polak accents.
I figured it was either keyboard or the kind of spello you make when you don't have to think about it. And people say phonetically spelled languages make writing easier!
It'd be easy enough to set up keys to write in Polak.
Truth of the matter is that it is something I do so rarely, it doesn't seem worth the bother.

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #393 on: 18 March, 2019, 08:35:29 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Not sure that I'd be wanting to be crewing a boat with you in charge, H.  ;)
In the words of my late father (Master Mariner), "There's two ways of doing a job - the wrong way and the right way."

The ship I was on the crew never needed any prompting to make her as ship-shape and as beautiful as possible in port. Point of honour for all concerned.
That's nothing other than admirable.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #394 on: 21 March, 2019, 07:19:11 am »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Not sure that I'd be wanting to be crewing a boat with you in charge, H.  ;)
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #395 on: 21 March, 2019, 08:17:59 pm »
Yup.
Dar Mlodzierzy.
Gift of youth, or something similar.
Not sure that I'd be wanting to be crewing a boat with you in charge, H.  ;)
"The sort of people to be on a desert island with". The Friday Night ride as described by one hatler many years ago. Be careful what you wish for.
More than fair comment  :)

Pingu

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #396 on: 29 May, 2019, 08:55:33 am »
Ocean Atlantic just arrived in the harbour. They're not going to see many penguins here.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #397 on: 26 June, 2019, 08:58:07 pm »
This



just rocked up in Lerwick harbour.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #398 on: 29 June, 2019, 03:03:15 pm »
This



just rocked up in Lerwick harbour.
Camouflaged then?

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #399 on: 30 June, 2019, 10:28:35 am »
Wot the blazes hav hapened there?  It's supposed to be an huge black and yellow Thing yclept Brage Viking.

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