It's a ship! Or a boat! (?)
It's got a face so i thought it very appropriate for the porn thread.
It's in Benares / Varanasi , where loads of boats have faces, but this one was also orange. I trust you're not trying to start a conversation about whether or not hindus are a bit like nazis etc.![]()
i have no clue. It's the kind with a face on.No, I was just wondering what the fuck kind of boat it is...![]()
I have been several timesI have. Go if you possibly can.![]()
me too. what a place. it feels crap even trying to make up a sentence about it.I have been several times![]()
Agreedme too. what a place. it feels crap even trying to make up a sentence about it.![]()
I think it is somebody's home now, but what it was originally built for is probably whatever you just said.superstructure of that looks like an escape / drop lifeboat from an oilrig or container ship - although the actual hull looks far more traditional in shape. And the "join" !!
AgreedPretty much the most 'memorable' place I've ever been tbh
Anyway, here is a lovely ship, THV Galatea, the Trinity House Vessel that drops / moves / fixes buoys and markers, doing great service for UK shipping in general
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She's usually pissing around in the Solent when Cowes Week and the Round The Island Race are on, she's a cool ship - pretty unique.I like her - was lucky enough to see her coming into Felixstowe whilst out on the "William Riley" in late 2014. We got a toot and a wave from them !
The hatches are heavy duty - must be an emergency thing like you said, definitely an offshore bit of kit (originally). Varanasi is a fucking long way up the Ganges from Dhaka - it probably came from theresuperstructure of that looks like an escape / drop lifeboat from an oilrig or container ship - although the actual hull looks far more traditional in shape. And the "join" !!
I think these are my favorite type of ships. The ships that do things for other ships, or do things so that shipping can exist.AgreedPretty much the most 'memorable' place I've ever been tbh
Anyway, here is a lovely ship, THV Galatea, the Trinity House Vessel that drops / moves / fixes buoys and markers, doing great service for UK shipping in general
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No, I was just wondering what the fuck kind of boat it is...![]()
Looking at the photos of the old Liners, the design brief had to have had the line "and make it beautiful" something completely missing from todays briefs, which must include "make it look like a brick"
I think these are my favorite type of ships. The ships that do things for other ships, or do things so that shipping can exist.
She's usually pissing around in the Solent when Cowes Week and the Round The Island Race are on, she's a cool ship - pretty unique.
Oh, speaking of ships and Cowes Week, I'm reminded of this
Skipper of the yacht was an RN Lt iirc, got hauled before court
Eta:
Yacht skipper fined for Cowes Week collision with oil tanker
That's an expensive fuck-up, but 100 grand for a 5 day trial?????Wilson was fined £2,000 for the offence of failing to keep a proper lookout and £500 for each of the two offences of impeding the passage of a vessel, and ordered to pay a £15 surcharge. The maximum penalty was £5,000 on each charge. He was ordered to pay the full costs of the prosecution, which totalled £100,056.68.
That's an expensive fuck-up, but 100 grand for a 5 day trial?????![]()
Well quite. The Guardian piece seems to say that the rules are to stay at least 1000 meters away from the front of the ship and 100 meters either side. If that's the case, loads of the boats in the video are breaking the rules.What idiot decided that a yacht race and a supertanker should be in the same place at the same time?
Well quite. The Guardian piece seems to say that the rules are to stay at least 1000 meters away from the front of the ship and 100 meters either side. If that's the case, loads of the boats in the video are breaking the rules.
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I went on this,the Reina del Mar, a few times when I was little.Southampton to Cape Town. I don't know why but we alwatys took the Reina del mar out and came back on a differnt ship, the Vaal. Something to do with P & O timetabling I guess
It seemed huge at the time but would look puny next to today's ships. I don't think of it as a cruise shoip as it actually went somewhere rather than just pootling about and ending up where it started
All those specialist maritime lawyers, barristers, expert witnesses etc don't come cheapThat's an expensive fuck-up, but 100 grand for a 5 day trial?????![]()
No, I was just wondering what the fuck kind of boat it is...![]()