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Aug 15, 2013 0:34:48 GMT
Post by htmb on Aug 15, 2013 0:34:48 GMT
So many different types of boats. I love these photos! --------- Glass bottom boats at Silver Springs
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Aug 17, 2013 11:14:48 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 11:14:48 GMT
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Aug 17, 2013 17:29:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 17:29:27 GMT
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Aug 24, 2013 12:05:08 GMT
Post by rikita on Aug 24, 2013 12:05:08 GMT
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Aug 24, 2013 13:51:09 GMT
Post by mossie on Aug 24, 2013 13:51:09 GMT
From the sublime to the ridiculous
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Aug 24, 2013 13:59:36 GMT
Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2013 13:59:36 GMT
An interesting assortment, to be sure!
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Aug 24, 2013 15:44:57 GMT
Post by patricklondon on Aug 24, 2013 15:44:57 GMT
Crews marshalling for the start of the Great River Race in London (from Greenwich to Richmond, any kind of boat powered by humans only): Head of the River Race: a procession race for standard rowing eights, from Mortlake to Putney. Here are some crews returning to base, with others just coming to the end of the race behind them before going on to the turning zone for that long slog back.
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Aug 24, 2013 15:50:48 GMT
Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2013 15:50:48 GMT
Wonderful pictures, Patrick! Do they shut down the river to other boat traffic during the race?
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Aug 25, 2013 20:08:39 GMT
Post by patricklondon on Aug 25, 2013 20:08:39 GMT
Head of the River Race, certainly (too many boats in too narrow a space), but fortunately there isn't much traffic up there on a Saturday at that time of the year. For the Great River Race, they have a sort of rolling closure of piers for the main pleasure boats, and everyone else has to "proceed with caution" around the race boats.
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Aug 28, 2013 15:17:30 GMT
Post by rikita on Aug 28, 2013 15:17:30 GMT
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Aug 29, 2013 6:15:27 GMT
Post by lugg on Aug 29, 2013 6:15:27 GMT
Such a varied and interesting collection of photos, thank you all.
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Aug 30, 2013 16:46:48 GMT
Post by patricklondon on Aug 30, 2013 16:46:48 GMT
I'm likely to deluge the board with boats in a few days, since the Clipper Round the World Race is due to start this weekend, and I've been up to St Katharine's Dock in London to see the contestant yachts and their crews getting ready. In among the dock's usual resident complement of corporate gin palaces and Thames barges (I might do a separate thread on them some time), there was also this: It's the Gloriana, a replica of an eighteenth century royal rowing barge, which some corporate sponsor was just what was needed to give last year's Diamond Jubilee flotilla parade that Canaletto touch (wisely, given the foul weather that day, the Queen actually travelled in a much bigger and more comfortable motor boat).
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Sept 2, 2013 7:07:26 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 7:07:26 GMT
I can imagine the owner being psychotically obsessed with every little spot or nick that he might find on that boat.
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Sept 2, 2013 15:03:37 GMT
Post by patricklondon on Sept 2, 2013 15:03:37 GMT
And by way of contrast, nearer me at Canary Wharf, there has been this thing looking like something out of a Bond movie: the first boat to go round the world entirely under solar power
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Sept 2, 2013 15:29:37 GMT
Post by mossie on Sept 2, 2013 15:29:37 GMT
Looks like it has oil drums as buoyancy aids, sure they didn't cheat Patrick
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Sept 2, 2013 17:25:24 GMT
Post by htmb on Sept 2, 2013 17:25:24 GMT
Wow, Patrick! I love the contrast between your last two posts.
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Sept 4, 2013 5:11:28 GMT
Post by questa on Sept 4, 2013 5:11:28 GMT
Fishing boats in lagoon.Negombo, Sri Lanka. The birds rest on the boats destroyed by the Tsunami which wrecked the place.
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Sept 4, 2013 7:18:20 GMT
Post by mossie on Sept 4, 2013 7:18:20 GMT
The little white egrets clustered round the tatty canoes is a real lesson in contrast
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Sept 5, 2013 5:21:43 GMT
Post by lugg on Sept 5, 2013 5:21:43 GMT
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Sept 5, 2013 5:46:36 GMT
Post by questa on Sept 5, 2013 5:46:36 GMT
I agree about the photos of Patrick's.
But I doubt the beautiful lines of Turanor will ever be seen in a fishing fleet, trying to get a few fish for market!
;D
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Sept 6, 2013 3:37:16 GMT
Post by questa on Sept 6, 2013 3:37:16 GMT
Bugis boats from eastern Lombok Building a Bugis boat. Bugis sailors once ruled the S.E Asian islands. Ferocious pirates and traders, they were so feared by the colonial powers that to scare kids into being good they were told "the Bugis man will get you". This later became 'boogie man or bogey man' The timber in this ship was beautiful and smelt so good I could have licked it. Don't know what it was...possibly teak.
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Sept 6, 2013 6:15:52 GMT
Post by tod2 on Sept 6, 2013 6:15:52 GMT
Great photos Patrick and Questa! You have solved the puzzle of not only 'the boogie man' Questa, but the origin of the Food Court in Singapore called Bugis Street. I did hear it was threatened with demolition at one time but maybe it's still going strong as is Newtons Circus.
PS. I used to do the Cargo Manifests for a freighter owned by Royal Inter-ocean Lines called the "Straat Lombok" ;D
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Sept 6, 2013 7:11:09 GMT
Post by questa on Sept 6, 2013 7:11:09 GMT
Tod2... Singapore is divided into ethnic neighbourhoods...Indian quarter, Arab quarter etc. There was a whole section for the Bugis people down the end of Waterloo St. The main street was Bugis Street and over the years came to be the hangout for good, cheap food and entertainment with a great flea market there.
It also featured a red light district and the haunt of transvestites.The Govt closed it all down and sterilised it so now there is a metro station, the market and some hawker food. It has lost its character but is still good for food.
When in S'pore I stay at S.E Asian Hotel in Waterloo St just opposite Bugis St. It is next to a Buddhist Temple and 3 doors from a Hindu one so I know I'm in Asia.
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Sept 9, 2013 21:01:27 GMT
Post by rikita on Sept 9, 2013 21:01:27 GMT
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Sept 10, 2013 2:30:10 GMT
Post by questa on Sept 10, 2013 2:30:10 GMT
rikita...your boat is wonderful...such an evocative picture. I wonder...where is it? where is it going? who is on board? can I come too? The picture looks so peaceful, but then it may be "the heart of darkness"
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Sept 17, 2013 20:51:18 GMT
Post by rikita on Sept 17, 2013 20:51:18 GMT
well, of those questions i can only answer the first one - it was on some small canal in the backwaters of Kerala, India. if i remember right the boat was empty though ...
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Oct 6, 2013 16:51:08 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2013 16:51:08 GMT
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Oct 9, 2013 20:37:36 GMT
Post by rikita on Oct 9, 2013 20:37:36 GMT
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Nov 12, 2013 0:30:53 GMT
Post by questa on Nov 12, 2013 0:30:53 GMT
Candidasa, Bali, looking towards the little islands off the south coast.
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Nov 14, 2013 14:49:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 14:49:27 GMT
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