The ship on a grey day…
Posts tagged ‘Ships’
The Rope Lady
The End of the Rope
The Sharyn Louise
The Northern Viking Arrives
The Clean Bottom
You can’t beat having your bottom scraped…
The Crane Engineer
The Island Junior
The Bulbous Forefoot
The Bulbous Forefoot or, Bulbous Bow, greatly increases fuel efficiency and the fins help with stability. More about this technology (an American invention) here. The ‘snoot’ shown below belongs to a trawler but most ships are built with bulbous bows these days.
The Man and the Boat…
The Patrol Boat
The Very Big and the Very Little
The Boats
The Cruel North Sea
The Bridge
The Sailor (1)
The Tug
Many years ago I worked on deep sea salvage tugs and, since then, I’ve always had a soft spot for tugs. The second image shows the tug Statesman, the first tug I went to sea on in 1972 (this makes me feel VERY old!). The radio callsign of the statesman was 6ZQS (Liberian) but was changed to GSAA when the Statesman became registered in Britain (something to do with the Cod War!). The front of the Statesman looked like one of those expensive ocean-going yachts.
The Figurehead
A ship’s figurehead seen at the Amsterdam Maritime Museum. Â Not the sort of thing you would get away with in these enlightened times!
The Figurehead
The Lookout
The Lookout
The Ship Heading North
The Ship Heading North
The Gears (even more cogs!)
Just can’t get enough gears these days…
The Cogs
Amsterdam Sail
Here’s a flashback to 2015 – Amsterdam Sail. Â The next Amsterdam Sail will be in 2020.
WARNING. Â Some brief (very brief) nudity!
Sail Amsterdam 2015 – by Richard Broom from Richard Broom on Vimeo.
The Binnacle
People seem to have lost their way today. Â This will get you home. Â Steady as she goes!
The Binnacle
The Boat Belonging to Louis
The Boat Belonging to Louis
The Tug
The Tug
The Day Out
The Day Out
The Cruise
The Cruise
The Ropes
The Ropes!
The Sign
The Sign
The Chandlery
The Chandlery
Amsterdam Sail…….
A video from the summer…(contains unexpected nudity)