Steve Hyde Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Its an honour to be hosting this months challenge. I've been through the long list of previous subjects and couldn't see this topic listed so I've decided the March challenge will be: Ships and Boats I've tried to choose a topic most people might have some examples of in their portfolios. The images should include a boat or ship and can include other water vessels like barges etc. Any part of a ship or boat will be fine as long as its obviously part of either. This definition I found seems to cover it Vessels intended for navigation of coastal and inland waters are generally called boats, while ocean going vessels are generally called ships. You have until the end of March. Good luck. Here are a few of examples mine. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) I’ll be first. Great subject, Steve! Stormy Skies, Bar Harbor, Maine It’s All About The Light, (Water Taxi on the Bricktown Canal) Derelict Fishing Boat Edited March 8 by Betty LaRue 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 9 minutes ago, Steve Hyde said: Vessels intended for navigation of coastal and inland waters are generally called boats, while ocean going vessels are generally called ships. Congratulations! Great subject! Mine are all from Amsterdam and by coincidence the Prinsengracht or Prince's Canal is in all of them. I was born 3 canals to the East. The Amphicar. Watch out! Behind you! King's Day. If you're the owner or the captain, it's a ship. Others may call it a boat, but not within earshot. 😂 Mine is a tub and I don't mind calling it a tub. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Yikes, I've got to go out in the water? But . . . I can't swim. Just send some cake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 12 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: Yikes, I've got to go out in the water? But . . . I can't swim. Just send some cake. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) "Marco Polo" at Pier 7, Warnemünde, Germany, 2011. Scrapped in 2021. Rowers on the Guadalquivir river, Seville Sailing yacht motoring towards Pap of Glencoe, Loch Leven, Argyll and Bute, Scotland Edited March 8 by spacecadet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) Darn it! I have about 300 images of ships and boats. Can I just put them all up and you can take your pick.😃 Allan Looking, Looking, Looking, Looking------ ITMA After thought: Would images of model boats/ships be acceptable. ITMAA Edited March 8 by Allan Bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) Wait a minute. I don't have to be on the boat. Me and my Sony can be safely on shore. I have some photos like that. Here's three: Tour boat passing under Brooklyn Bridge in a snowstorm. Tour boats on the Tiber in Rome. Seattle ferry at dusk. Edited March 8 by Ed Rooney 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Just now, Ed Rooney said: Wait a minute. I don't have to be on the boat. Me and my Sony can be safely on shore. I have some photos like that. I wasn't on any of mine, but I had been and would be on the "Marco Polo". It was just parked at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Just now, spacecadet said: I wasn't on any of mine, but I had been and would be on the "Marco Polo". It was just parked at the time. Moored. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Just now, Allan Bell said: Moored. Allan Scrapped. In 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnans Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 My entries... Fisherman pushing boat to land from sea Old boat of Caol aka Corpach Shipwreck at Fort William, Highland, UK Dubai creek and Abra (Water Taxi) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hyde Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 (edited) 4 hours ago, spacecadet said: I wasn't on any of mine, but I had been and would be on the "Marco Polo". It was just parked at the time. I’ve been on the Marco Polo. They used to moor it at Avonmouth Docks, just outside Bristol, in December, and then open it up for local company Xmas parties. We had a deal which included a group table and a cabin for the night. I don’t remember too much about that party!! 🥴 I know we had a good time, went to bed at 3am and had to be off the boat by 9am as it was sailing later that day. Edited March 8 by Steve Hyde 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hyde Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 54 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: After thought: Would images of model boats/ships be acceptable. ITMAA Hi Alan, model boats are fine by me 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecile Marion Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) Congratulations on your win, Steve! Wooden boat, Annecy, France Boats in Oban Bay, Scotland Fleet Week, New York City Edited March 8 by Cecile Marion 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 As a desert lover, I was stunned to discover that I have 822 images of boats/ships/ferries. And so many have a sentimental value: Amazonian days, tall ship cruise, bi-monthly ferry crossings France/UK. So many memories! Great challenge! Scuba diving Great Barrier Reef Polynesian vessel, Aitutaki, Cook Islands, Polynesia Dragon boat 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Settled on the following three. Earl of Pembroke sailing ship moored at Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Wight Sun vehicle and passenger ferry taken from deck of Wight Light ferry in Lymington estuary Hampshire England Sail Boats in Bosham Harbour Chichester West Sussex Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin L Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 As a sailor, it would be rude not partake Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Cruise Ships Leaving Southampton Wooden Boat, Lymington Christchurch Harbor At Low Tide In Sea Mist 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) Congratulations, Steve. My three... Bowen Island Ferry, British Columbia, Canada F01BKD Sightseers in San Antonio, Texas, USA BJR57D P.S. This picture is 20 years old. If it had been taken today, everyone would be snapping away or videoing with their smart phones instead of quietly observing their surroundings. Progress? Maybe not... Closeup of a ship's propeller CWFJFT Edited March 9 by John Mitchell 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Wow, great pictures everyone! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Richmond Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 A challenge I can actually enter. Here's my three: Tall ship, S.V.Kaskelot, moored alongside the Barbican in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, UK, April 2017 Small inshore fishing boats aligned by the tide in Mevagissey harbour, Cornwall, UK Full sized replica of Sir Francis Drake's 16th century ship, The Golden Hind, in Brixham harbour, Devon, UK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Well Done Steve. My 3. Lydney Harbour in the mist. Coverack Harbour Detail of a rope. (From my original QC submission in 2006!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooth Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) gloucester fisherman's memorial prison ship martys monument, to the 11,500 pow that died on board british prison ships during the american revolution largest prison ship in the world, commissioned 1982, decomissioned 2023. it was the last of an armada of jail barges built in the 1980s, nyc, usa. Edited March 8 by sooth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 (edited) Congrats again Steve. Real nice subject. I didn't realize how many pics of boats and ships I had. My three Sailing into the sunset off Key West, Florida An old Skipjack oysetering boat on the Chesapeake Bay A container ship plying the Savannah River, Georgia Edited March 10 by Michael Ventura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Woods Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Bulk carrier in Toronto harbour. Canada coastguard on the St Lawrence. It was quite cold that day - I seem to remember my photo-motivation fading away quite quickly. Boats approaching each other on Lake Titicaca (Peruvian side) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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