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Looking across the entrance to Christchurch Harbour from Mudeford Quay.
The Black House, a local landmark, stands at the end of the spit, opposite Mudeford Quay, site of the Battle of Mudeford in 1784. Built in 1848, it was once a boatbuilders' house, but is now rented out to holidaymakers. It has served a variety of functions over the years, and is commonly (but inaccurately) associated with the area's smuggling past.
Text curtesy of Wikipedia.
“Keep the river on your right
and the highway at your shoulder
and the front line in your sights, Pioneer...“
Now I might be wrong but in my mind LA (and San Francisco) is as far from the Delta as you can get!
Built in 2009, by Nichols Brothers Boatbuilders Incorporated of Seattle, Washington (hull #S-155) as the Delta Billie for Bay and Delta Maritime Services Incorporated of San Francisco, California.
In 2022, the tug was chartered to AmNAV Maritime Services of Oakland, California. A subsidiary of the Foss Maritime Company of Seattle, Washington. Where she retained her name.
Powered by two, Caterpillar 3516C diesel engines, with Rolls Royce US255 z-drives for a rated 6,800 horsepower.
Her electrical service is provided by one, 215kW generator set. Driven by a single, Caterpillar diesel engine. And, one, 50kW generator set. Driven by a single Caterpillar diesel engine. The tug's capacities are 70,000 gallons of fuel, 8,000 gallons of water, and 1,400 gallons of sewage.
The tug's towing equipment consists of a single drum, towing winch. Outfitted with 2.5(in) towing wire.
Got a glimpse of the Delta Billy and had to give her a shot, maybe she'll become Flickr Famous?
At f/8 I must've been shooting in AP mode. I still hadn't become the Master of My Domain!
The Boatbuilders Yard cafe on the Yarra River, Melbourne and historic Polly Woodside museum ship at South Wharf.
A few more from a rainy Sunday kitchen-table photo shoot. Still dreaming of travel or even some warmer weather would do.
Silently watching my sweet silent buoy
over golden stitched ripples of riparian waves
though unnatural colours
Blend in with hushed charm
your bangles of safety
adorn reaching arms
through tree lined embankments
and boatbuilders cries
your bright orange cloak
rarely catches our eyes
so thank you for standing out cold
winters days
and waiting there patiently
through midsummer haze .
Grayhound arriving at Sharpness on a very dull Friday morning...
Grayhound was commissioned by Marcus and Freya Pomeroy-Rowden from the boatbuilder Chris Rees at Voyager Boatyard in Cornwall. She was launched on 4th August 2012. She is a 5/6th scale replica of a three-masted UK Customs Lugger called Grayhound that was built in 1776 in Cawsand, Cornwall. Our Grayhound carries a Category 0 licence for worldwide travel and is armed with two working cannon!
Chicago Architect Jeanne Gang loves wood.
At Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo,
Gang wanted to bend a kiosk /Pavillon
into the shape of a tortoise shell;
she consulted boatbuilders to learn how.
For the final structure, small laminated pieces of Douglas fir were soaked and then glued together (laminated)
to make curved ribs
that snapped together, with fiberglass pods between,
on-site.
This $12-Million Zoo boardwalk
is now thriving with flowers, native plants, butterflies, birds, turtles and fish.
Designed as an "outdoor classroom,"
the boardwalk features a unique Wood + Fiberglass
pavilion curved to mimic the shell of a tortoise.
Hard to believe it's now 9 years old.
I really like how this area has transformed over the last few years (well about ten since i've been visiting it).
I was tired and footsore when I took this one. Had gone from tripod (at f16 , ISO100, focus pre-set to infinity) to f2.8, handheld 1/20 , ISO 3200 and no inbuilt IS in Ricoh GR, so 1/20 is about the repeatable limit. Somehow I changed the focus to about 2.5 metres. So the key features are somewhat soft.
As an aside, the Ricoh GR is (to me) quite unique. Is there any other camera/lens that lets you preselect a focal length, even "infinity" and "lock it in"? Should be idiot proof. Except I still found a way to change it at the wrong moment. Idiot :-)
Anyway I like the atmosphere so it's up anyway. More or less straight out of camera (straightened a little and cropped to 16:9).
So many pics taken... more to come in time.
Excerpt from torontobiennial.org/work/augustas-serapinas-at-small-arms...:
Augustas Seripanas’s sculpture originated in Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Created from the material of an abandoned shed on the island, it references the island’s building history as well as the social and functional role of these modest structures. The vernacular architecture found in Fogo is synonymous with life and livelihood lived in tandem with the water, as well as with the houses and sheds built by boatbuilders. Fogo Island is known for its fishing industry, which is deeply marked by the cod moratorium initiated by the Federal Government in 1992 necessitated by decades of industrial overfishing and the subsequent collapse of the regional economy. While cod are making a slow recovery, the fishing ban remains largely in effect. One way the industry recovered was through the community banding together to create fishing cooperatives and diversifying their catch from a single species to crab, shrimp and turbot. The co-ops kept profits within the community and handled the preparation of catch for distribution to outside markets.
The modest wooden sheds, often brightly painted, with peaked roofs, dot the shoreline of the island. They are places to store nets, boats, and equipment, to clean and salt fish, and sometimes, to gather. Augustas’s shed came from Barr’d Islands, where it had gone through different iterations of construction. Locals recalled that this was the third time that a similar structure had been rebuilt with the same materials, each time with a slightly different configuration of nails, wood, flooring, and shingles. The shed has also taken on more contemporary building additions, including vinyl siding, wallpapered panels, and a front door repurposed from another structure. History is held in its walls, too, and visible in its layers of paint and inscriptions.
As a means of speaking to this resourcefulness—the material necessity of making use and reuse of what is at hand—Augustas has continued to transform the shed. With each rebuilding, a new structure is generated from the original materials. The first shed looked something like the original, but walking around it revealed that it was no wider than a closet, purposely narrowed to fit the confines of the gallery entrance. It also functioned as its own shipping container as it migrated to other venues, with the roof fitting into its interior, transforming the entire work into a crate.
In Toronto, the shed will undergo one final transformation. The artist, working together with Sawmill Sid, who runs a local milling service and lumber yard, will take the structure apart piece by piece and remake it into a towering lighthouse. Installed near the waterfront of Lake Ontario, Augustas’s propositional beacon will be visible from the Small Arms Inspection Building. Rather than guiding ships, however, it is a beacon to the transformative potential of even the most humble of materials.
Built in 1859, this Italian Villa-variant Italianate-style house was built for Douglas Putnam, originally known as Putnam Place or the Putnam Villa, and was purchased in 1894 by Harry D. Knox, a boatbuilder, and renamed The Anchorage. The house is built of sandstone with an entrance tower, a gabled and hipped roof with bracketed eaves, two-over-two double-hung windows, a recessed entrance porch with an arched opening, cast iron balconies on the second and fourth floors of the tower, a wrap-around porch with turned columns and decorative trim, double-hung box windows on the first floor at the wrap-around porch, infilled window bays at the side of the tower and adjacent facade facing the porch, which are remnants of a now-removed elevator shaft addition, decorative window headers, and two-story gabled rear ells. The building is a contributing structure in the Harmar Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and expanded to its present size in 1993. Today, the house serves as the offices of Hidden Marietta, a tourism agency.
Lubec is located on a peninsula overlooking an excellent ice-free harbor, the town was first settled about 1775. Originally part of Eastport, it was set off and incorporated on June 21, 1811, and named for Lübeck, Germany. Following the War of 1812, Lubec was the site of considerable smuggling trade in gypsum, although principal industries remained agriculture and fisheries. By 1859, there was a tannery, three gristmills and nine sawmills; by 1886, there were also two shipyards, three boatbuilders and three sailmakers.
From 1897 to 1898, the town was the site of a swindle in the sale of stock in the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company, the brainchild of Reverend Prescott Jernegan and Charles Fisher of Martha's Vineyard. Jernegan claimed to have developed a method of using "accumulators" to get gold from sea water, and bought an old grist mill to turn it into a factory. The scheme attracted an abundance of investors, who were all too eager to funnel money into the company after being promised astronomical returns. In the summer of 1898, work was suspended without explanation. Jernegan and Smith vanished, and the fraud was gleefully exposed by newspapers across New England.
Lubec reached its population peak in the 1910s and 1920s, hovering a little above 3,300. Since then, the population has generally been in a gradual but steady decline, and currently sits at a little over 1,300.
The Clyde Puffer SL Vic 32, of the ship type immortalised in the stories of the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy.
VIC 32 ("Victualing Inshore Craft") is one of the last few surviving coal-fired steam-powered puffers and is based at The Change House, Crinan.
She was built by Dunston’s of Thorne, Yorkshire in November 1943 - a busy time for the Clyde Ship building yards. As the wartime Admiralty needed 50, (later 100) victualling boats in a hurry, they were built in groups of three by various different yards in England. No new designs were needed as the perfect boat existed in a Clyde Puffer.
(The first skipper had proven to be a drunken maniac. He had taken a cargo of cement out to Barra to build a pier. The boat had suffered damage all along the starboard side, a propellor blade had been knocked off, the crew were in jail for stealing the shop’s petty cash, one had septic sores and another had a nasty seaman’s disease. Obviously merchant men could, to a certain extent during the war, choose from the Merchant Navy Shipping Pool what type of boat they worked on. So the reality was that the crew were no gentlemen. savethepuffer.co.uk/history-of-vic-32/)
Steam sailings on VIC 32 have been available to the public from 1979, latterly as cruises on the Caledonian Canal. From 2004 she underwent extensive refitting at Corpach Boatyard at the west end of the canal near Fort William, funded by donations and lottery funds. After fitting of a new boiler by Pridham’s Engineering and Corpach Boatbuilders, she steamed down from Fort William to Crinan, from where cruises on the Caledonian Canal have now re-commenced
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CalMac ro-ro ferry MV Bute was launched in 9 February 2005. MV Bute has a semi-open car deck with a clearance height of 5.1m. She has bow and stern access. In addition she has a starboard vehicle ramp aft which was used at Rothesay before the pier was converted to allow end-loading.
Tonnage:2612 tonnes
Length:72 m
Beam:15.3 m
Draft:5 m
Speed:14 knots
Capacity:450 passengers, 60 cars
When and If is a yacht designed by John Alden and commissioned by then Colonel George S. Patton, a widely regarded American war hero. It was built in 1939 as a private yacht by boatbuilder F.F. Pendleton in Wiscasset, Maine. It was constructed of double planked mahogany over black locust frames and an oak keel.
The traditional fishing boat Manana in Arild, northwestern Scania (Sweden). The 26 ft boat was built by John Hansson in Limhamn in 1922. It has been restored to its original state by the owner Henrik Wettin in cooperation with the restorers and boatbuilders
Martin and Mathias Ravani in Nyhamnsläge.
Building this schooner the old fashion way, check out this video of putting on a plank...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCcg7AxiE7E
Follow the complete construction as it's being done at this site...
boatbuildingwithburnham.blogspot.com/
Story in the Gloucester Times...
www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x532735381/The-Ardelle-take...
Notorious, a full-size, wooden, sailing re-creation of a Portuguese caravel, was researched, designed and constructed single-handedly from salvaged Monterey cypress by amateur boatbuilder Graeme Wylie at Bushfield, Victoria, Australia. Launched in 2011.
Notorious Caravel Specifications
LOA 17.5 m
Beam 5.5 m
Draught 2.1m
Displacement 58 tons
Timber - Monterey cypress
Ballast - 12 tons Bluestone
Fastenings - Australian hardwood ( tree nails)
Steel bolts in keel and knees
Lateen rig
Exterior - Black varnish, a mix of linseed oil, pure turpentine, Stockholm tar and pitch.
at III fiftyone Water Street and the "Black Island Punt" conceived by artist Will Gill, “Black Island Punt” is a large frame of a traditional Newfoundland punt with small pieces of stained glass. Boatbuilder Jerome Canning assisted Gill in realizing the finished art piece, The art work was unveiled in June 2014
more info here: www.nl.dailybusinessbuzz.ca/Provincial-News/2014-06-26/ar...
Pic Taken Oct 17, 2014 in St John's, Newfoundland
Thanks for your visits, faves and comments...(c)rebfoto
Building ships and Grimsby are words not often seen in the same sentence in the recent years but boats are being built in the city, and men and women are still welding them together.
Shetland Museum and Archives, Hay's Dock, Lerwick, Shetland. The boatbuilders set up a small boat and built it during Boat Week. Here it is, waiting for boards, in the Boat Shed. The boat being restored in the background is the LK 160 Maggie Helen, aka Loki.
Bream is a 'Fish' class narrowboat with an unusual coppered-steel hull built in 1933 at Yarwoods for commercial operators Fellows, Morton and Clayton of Fazeley Street basin, Birmingham. She was first fitted with a Bolinder 9hp engine. Some time in the 1960's she was acquired by the British Waterways Board (antecedent of the Canals and Rivers Trust) and was broken up. The 15' rear section was converted into a pusher tug and the 55' front section given a squared-off stern and used for maintenance by the BWB on the Coventry canal. Some time in the '70's this front section was abandoned and sunk in Tixal Wide on the Staffs-Worcs canal. She was salvaged in 1994 by boatbuilder Keith Ball and rebuilt to the original length with the FMC style rounded stern one can see here. She was purchased in 1999 by current owner Steve Wood and has been his floating home since then. In 2007-8 Bream had a complete refit including a swap to a Lister HR2 engine and was painted in the original colours of 1933. The 15' stern section is still extant and is also registered as 'Bream No 310' and yes, the two halves of the original often meet up again at narrowboat festivals!
Notorious, a full-size, wooden, sailing re-creation of a Portuguese caravel, was researched, designed and constructed single-handedly from salvaged Monterey cypress by amateur boatbuilder Graeme Wylie at Bushfield, Victoria, Australia. Launched in 2011.
Notorious Caravel Specifications
LOA 17.5 m
Beam 5.5 m
Draught 2.1m
Displacement 58 tons
Timber - Monterey cypress
Ballast - 12 tons Bluestone
Fastenings - Australian hardwood ( tree nails)
Steel bolts in keel and knees
Lateen rig
Exterior - Black varnish, a mix of linseed oil, pure turpentine, Stockholm tar and pitch.
This is the famous boat house where the Canadian sailboat the Bluenose was built. It is the sailboat featured on the back of the Canadian dime. The HMS Bounty for the film Munity on the Bounty was also made here. The film staring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris. The HMS Bounty was launched in 1960 and then sailed to Tahiti for the filming. The Bluenose II which is still ported in Lunenburg was also contracted here.
Decided that I needed to get going with some new images as I been pretty lazy of late. This is an image of some of Melbournes most iconic buildings, Australia 108, Eureka Tower, Crown Casino. The Boatbuilders Yard was great for a top up refreshment as well.
The boatyard shown here is on the site of R McAlister & Sons, Yachtbuilders, where four of the RMS Titanic's lifeboats were built: the Englehardt collapsible lifeboats A, B, C and D. Lifeboat C was the one that rescued Joseph Bruce Ismay, the President of the White Star Line.
I have been trying to find the story behind the many abandoned fishing boats on the beach at Aldeburgh and came across an obituary of Frank Knights who was most probably the builder - copied from the Yachting Monthly Sep 2008.
I have been trying to find the story behind the many abandoned fishing boats on the beach at Aldeburgh and came across an obituary of Frank Knights who was most probably the builder - copied from the Yachting Monthly Sep 2008.
Frank Knights, the well known East Coat shipwright and boatbuilder, has died aged 91. He was also a former Trinity House pilot.
Born in Felixstowe in 1917, he was orphaned at an early age. At 14 he left school and was apprenticed to a local butcher. But boats were to be his real love and he took a job in a local boatyard.
In May 1940 Frank responded to the call for owners of pleasure craft to help evacuate troops from the Dunkirk beaches. With another boat owner, George Arnott, he set off for Ramsgate in Arnott’s boat Atlanta, a former Swedish pilot cutter. To their great disappointment the navy told them that their boat, which had a top speed of 5.5 knots, would be too slow for the job. Undaunted, the pair remained in Ramsgate for ten days, helping where they could.
Returning to Woodbridge he joined the Local Defence Volunteer Force (later the Home Guard) and patrolled the beach at Waldringfield with a shotgun. With typical wry humour he said of that period, ‘We must have done a good job because the Germans never landed on our beach.’
Soon after Dunkirk he joined the Navy, having been prevented from joining earlier because boat-building was a reserved occupation, spending three years in the Mediterranean, working on motor torpedo boats and later on mine sweepers in the Scheldt, before going to Vancouver to commission a new ship on which he sailed to Colombo.
After leaving the Navy in 1946 Frank decided to work for himself. Travelling on a bicycle laden with a case full of tools, he repaired boats in Woodbridge and Waldringfield. When the Woodbridge Quay Company was formed, including Bass Dock and Ferry Quay, he was able to borrow a small amount of money enabling him to buy into the company. So Frank Knights Shipwrights was born in a building on the quayside.
He worked on all types of vessels, designing and building small sailing boats and inshore fishing vessels. Most of the Aldeburgh fishing fleet and many of the Orford boats were built at the yard. Frank established a reputation throughout East Anglia for producing good, small fishing boats.
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Historical Boat and Barge Builders since 1894, E.C.Jones & Son started business at Catherine Wheel Road Brentford until moving to the much larger premises at Brentford Wharf, Dock Road
The Company went into liquidisation in 1992
I like themes that get you of the couch and i love the woods! Also have a softspot for things with legs and eyes and antenna's;p I'll put the woodlouse in a spotlight today bc i think he/she deserves it. In Holland we call them "pissebed" (not a charming name), they're also called
"armadillo bug"
"boat-builder"
"butcher boy"
"carpenter"
"cafner"
"cheeselog"
"cheesy bobs" (fav)
"chiggy pig"
"doodlebug" (also used for the larva of an antlion)
"gramersow"
"granny grey"
"pill bug"
"potato bug"
"roll up bug"
"roly-poly"
"sow bug"
"slater"
"wood bug"
Anyone who knows more?
The “Boathouse” is a heritage building with boat-building activity going back 100 years on the island of Isegran which is a living coastal culture park and a centre for the dissemination of traditions, history and experiences. Boats are restored in the same buildings they were once built in. Isegran is also a museum port with a beautiful sight of traditional boats along the banks, most in private ownership.
The beautiful island that lies in the centre of Fredrikstad, in the river Glomma, and can be reached via Kråkerøy Bridge or by the free City Ferry.
Isegran is the first place in Fredrikstad mentioned in history. The earl of Borgarsyssel, Alv Erlingsson, also known as MindreAlv, had a small fortress on Isegran in the late 1200s. In the 1670s the island was fortified with a large battery platform, Isegran's tower and later a small fort was built to protect the river. Until 1680, Isegran was Norway's only naval port.
From 1905 Fredrikstad had Norway's largest fleet of wooden boats. Around 600 sailing ships had Fredrikstad as their hometown at this time.
Fredrikstad has hosted The Tall Ships Races three times - last time in 2019.
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About Maritime centre - www.maritime-center.no/kopi-av-om-oss
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More about Isegran - www.visitnorway.com/listings/isegran/6391/
Prior to the nationalisation of the waterways in 1948 one of the largest canal carriers, and probably the most famous, was Fellows Morton and Clayton.
It's a Grade II Listed Building in accordance with Historic England and The National Heritage List for England (NHLE). Coal carrying company offices, now a public house. Dated 1895, converted 1980-1. For Fellows, Morton & Clayton, Ltd.
Parts of the company date back to the 1830s and they had been one of the earliest firms to invest confidently in iron boats – steamers, horse boats and some of the earliest motorboats. They built many of them at their own dockyard in Birmingham, but they contracted work out to other shipyards and boatbuilders too, including here in Nottingham.
This 1895 redbrick pub by the Nottingham Canal serves real ales and home-cooked meals. It's situated next to Nottingham Canal, adjacent to Nottingham Railway Station.
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We went on a day trip from Stone Town to the northern part of Zanzibar. We were shown this beach which was pretty much unspoiled and saw the local fishing boats as well as a small boatbuilder's workshop.
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Cabin cruiser 'Phoenix' moored on the Rochdale Canal between Rochdale and Smithy Bridge. This boat was built by Norman Cruisers, a nearby boatbuilder that was based in Shaw. The company's heyday was in the 1970s when they were producing 25 boats a week many for the overseas market. Norman Cruisers ceased trading in the 1980s after a fire destroyed many of the moulds. I guess this boat wiil be around 50 years old - slightly older than my 1989 GT Karakoram.