March Challenge - Ships and Boats

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Traditional Balinese Fishing boat, a Jukung, under sail, with fisherman, very early morning.

 

Thundercat boats jumping the Surf

Cargo ship entering Newcastle Harbour, Australia, accompanied by two tug boats

[Rubens Alarcon]

1 hour ago, Colin Woods said:

Bulk carrier in Toronto harbour.

@Colin Woods, great image.

[Sally Robertson]

Congratulations Steve!

 

Sailboats at Bicton on the Swan River, Perth, Western Australia. The smoky conditions and orange glow are from a prescribed burn to prevent bush fires.

 

 

Boats in Freshwater Bay on the Swan River on an atmospheric morning, Perth, Western Australia.

 

 

The wreck of the steam tug boat SS Wyola at dusk at CY O'Connor Beach, Perth, Western Australia.

 

[spacecadet]

14 hours ago, Steve Hyde said:

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. 

Only time we've ever been on a cruise, from Tilbury, because it went to some places we wanted to go on the Baltic. A super ship, smallish, built in East Germany in 1965 and still looked like a ship and not a barge with a hotel stuck on the top. The captain was a Russian called Zhukov so of course I called him Marshal. Alas, it didn't survive the pandemic. So my pix of her are now automatically archive😉

Edited March 9 by spacecadet

[VbFolly]

Great challenge - it's hard to pick just three.

Annual Veterans Cruise on the Thames with the Dunkirk Litte Ships

 

 

Colourful fishing boats in the harbour at Maryport, Cumbria.

 

 

Horse-drawn barge on the River Wey at Godalming

 

[Inchiquin]

Early morning on the Oxford Canal

 

 

 

Narrowboat on the Rochdale Canal

 

 

 

Restaurant boat "Tattershall Castle" on the Thames

 

 

 

Alan

 

[John Richmond]

2 hours ago, Inchiquin said:

Restaurant boat "Tattershall Castle" on the Thames

 

 

 

Alan

 

I still remember taking that old tub on the New Holland to Hull ferry link across the Humber whenever we visited my paternal grandmother's Hull relatives in the 50's and 60's.  Not the same since they built the bridge and retired the ferries.

[Phil]

Vessels large to small

 

Riverboat - Chattanooga TN

 

 

 

 

Florida airboat

 

 

Kayaking down the Frio River - Tx

 

Edited March 13 by Phil

[NYCat]

Small boat harbor, Homer, Alaska

 

 

Sailing ship in Svalbard, Norway

 

 

Boat on the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil

 

 

Paulette

 

 

[TeeCee]

The Rev Dr Jeni Parsons paddles her coracle to join the Human Chain, calling for an end national debt for third world nations

 

Totnes Canoe Festival on the River Dart

 

Luxury yacht in Barbados

[Bryan]

Good subject !

 

1 The launch of Texaco Great Britain from Swan Hunter's Tyneside yard in 1971 

 

2 Draft markings

 

3 The paddle steamer Italia moored at Peschiera del Garda, Italy

 

Edited March 9 by Bryan

[Sultanpepa]

On 08/03/2024 at 14:15, Steve Hyde said:

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.

 

Or as once put to me... "You can put a boat on a ship but not a ship on a boat".  I'm sure someone can find an example that disproves this. 😉

[Abiyoyo]

My three ships or boats.

 

Rose Dorothea ship in Provincetown Library, Provincetown,

 

Nehru Trophy Boat Race, Punnamada Lake , Alappuzha, Kerala, India

 

 

Cargo ship and Emirates NBD headquarters building in Deira, Abra boat ride across the Dubai Creek,

 

Edited March 10 by Abiyoyo

[Tony ALS]

My three.

 

1. Omvac Cinco dredger passing a woman having breakfast at the cafe terrace Botin Arts Centre next to Santander Bay Cantabria Spain

 

2. Motor yachts Puerto Banus Marina Andalusia Spain

 

3. Abandoned. Santander Bay, Cantabria, Spain

[Betty LaRue]

There’s really some good stuff posted. Love looking at them.

[Betty LaRue]

Phil, are my eyes deceiving me or did you post four images? 

[Regis]

Congratulations Steve,

 

Here come mine:

 

Sea kayak at sunset in Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory of Australia:

 

 

A tourist boat on the Hozu or Hozu-gawa river at Arashiyama Kyoto, Japan:

 

 

A tourist boat pass in front of the Church Notre Dame Saint-Vincent on the bank of the Saone river in Lyon France.

[David Fowler]

Former excursion boat Lazy Days on the Greek island of Symi

[David Fowler]

Catamaran ferry Flying Cat 5 docked on the Greek island of Alonnisos

[David Fowler]

Greek marine research vessel Aegaeo at Piraeus port, Athens

[Colin Woods]

On 08/03/2024 at 21:38, Rubens Alarcon said:

, great image.

Thanks. It was moored right next to the harbour wall and it was very impressive. Its not that big a ship compared to the giant oil carriers but still its pretty big. I was not alone

 

This photo isn't an entry in the challenge - just to show another view of the ship

[Phil]

On 11/03/2024 at 00:35, Betty LaRue said:

Phil, are my eyes deceiving me or did you post four images? 

 

Yep - if referring to me - I did find 4 to post.   

[Michael Ventura]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

 

Yep - if referring to me - I did find 4 to post.   

 

We are only allowed three photos each.  Been that way since the beginning of this monthly challenge.  I wish we could do more but I think it would get out of hand for the one having to make the short list.

[Phil]

Thanks Michael -

I did not know that... or I missed it somehow.

 

 

[Rebecca Ore]

Boats, no ships.

 

 

Fishing boat in Lake Managua off Port Momotombo, near Old Leon in Nicaragua

 

 

Tourist boats waiting for clients in Mexico City.   Flyer in costume on his cell phone.