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The Oselvar or Oselver is a small wooden rowing boat traditionally built and used along the west coast of Norway. The Oselvar is a clinker built boat with thin, very wide planks. Almost all parts of a Oselvar are made of pine, with only the keel of oak
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After a good workout in Lyme Bay it's time for the crew to put their gig away. Lyme Regis Gig Club was founded in 2007 and actively promotes the rapidly growing sport of Cornish Pilot Gig Rowing. The club now has three beautiful wooden boats, Rebel, Black Ven and Tempest - all built by local boat builder Gail McGarva.
All modern racing gigs are based on the Treffry, built in 1838 by William Peters of St Mawes, and still owned and raced by the Newquay Rowing Club. The Cornish pilot gig is a six-oared rowing boat, clinker-built of Cornish narrow-leaf elm, 32 feet long with a beam of 4 feet 10 inches. It is recognised as one of the first shore-based lifeboats that went to vessels in distress, with recorded rescues going back as far as the late 17th century.
Today, pilot gigs are used primarily for sport, with around 100 clubs across the globe. The main concentration is within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, with a number of other clubs in the south-west of England such as here in Lyme Regis.
Playing with textures and light.
I wanted to make it look like vintage work,...and I think I might have
achieved it.
I quite like this and I think I will print it to see how it turns out.
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In the golden hour just as the sun rises and the mist lays over the lake and the air gets warm.
Awarded "Accepted" in Norwegian National Photography contest spring 2022.
15 second exposure at F8.0. The 16-35mm stars the lights nicely even at f8.0. Raining for this shot so I had to hold an umbrella over the camera to keep everything dry. The rain does give a bit more shine to the roads and other surfaces at night.
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De TI is van het stadje Tisno in Kroatië/Dalmatië
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The TI is from the town of Tisno in Croatia / Dalmatia
Nacreous clouds over Morston Quay at low tide. Could have gotten a better composition here but thought I'd share anyway just because of the clouds
Something needs done about "disgrace on the River Leven". Bill Heaney discusses the ugly boat wrecks at Dumbarton Quay which are spoiling the area.
An interesting place just a little further down this river bank area there are some excellent restaurants - fish of course.
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Rhos-on-Sea, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Conwy Borough, North Wales.
Rhos-on-Sea coordinates... 53.309°N 3.738°W
Rhôs-on-Sea (Welsh: Llandrillo-yn-Rhos), also known as Rhos or Llandrillo, is a seaside resort and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. It is a mile to the northwest but effectively a suburb of Colwyn Bay, on the coast. It is named after the Welsh kingdom of Rhos established there in late Roman times as a sub-kingdom of Gwynedd, and later became a cantref (hundred). Today there are many boats anchored within the new harbour and the boat trips and sea fishing trips from Rhos jetty are becoming ever more popular. Rhos on sea sits in the shadow of Bryn Euryn on the western edge of the Bay of Colwyn, and lies between the towns of Penrhyn Bay to the west and Colwyn Bay to the east. The Rhos-on-Sea section of the promenade (and cycle path) stretches from the Cayley embankment via Rhos Point and on to Penrhyn Bay in the west. The village centres on the harbour and the seafront, and a number of restaurants, ice cream parlours and pubs line the busy promenade. The stretch of beach that sits between the promenade and the harbour breakwater is the most popular section of beach in the summer months. Access to the sand and shingle beach is via either the steps from the promenade or the ramp at the Rhos Point end of the beach. The harbour breakwater creates a pleasant sheltered area popular for sun bathing and paddling. Birdwatchers and nature lovers can head west around Rhos Point toward the mussel beds to find a wide variety of seabirds including oystercatchers, dunlins, red shanks, cormorants and many more.
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The iconic Hunsingo Mill in Onderdendam, beautifully lit during the blue hour. The mill, along with the surrounding buildings, is reflected in the calm water of the Boterdiep canal. The rowing boat on the right adds to the serene atmosphere of this typical Dutch landscape.
Tarbet is a tiny, idyllic-looking port a few miles north of Scourie in the Lewisian Gneiss country in Sutherland, from which boat trips are available to the bird reserve on Handa Island. It has a well-regarded seafood restaurant and this very pretty loch.
Menai Bridge, Anglesey, North Wales.
Menia Suspension Bridge... 53°13′12.5″N 4°9′47.25″W
Menai Strait...
The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont y Borth, Pont Grog y Borth) is a suspension bridge to carry road traffic between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. The bridge was designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826 and is a Grade I listed structure.
Construction of the bridge, to Telford's design, began in 1819 with the towers on either side of the strait. These were constructed from Penmon limestone and were hollow with internal cross-walls. Then came the sixteen huge chain cables, each made of 935 iron bars, that support the 176-metre (577 ft) span. To avoid rusting between manufacture and use, the iron was soaked in linseed oil and later painted. The chains each measured 522.3 metres (1,714 ft) and weighed 121 long tons (123 t; 136 short tons). Their suspending power was calculated at 2,016 long tons (2,048 t; 2,258 short tons). The bridge was opened to much fanfare on 30 January 1826.
Menai Strait
The Menai Strait was created by glacial erosion along a line of weakness associated with the Menai Strait Fault System. During a series of Pleistocene glaciations (that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago) a succession of ice-sheets moved from northeast to southwest across Anglesey and neighbouring Arfon scouring the underlying rock creating a series of linear bedrock hollows. The deepest of these channels eventually became flooded by the sea as the ice sheets receded forming the Menai Strait.
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Rowing Boats on Loch Rusky, The Trossachs, Scotland.
There's an old song:
Row, row, row your boat;
gently down the stream;
merily, merily, merily, merily;
Life is but a dream.
Seemed appropriate.