Random Picture Thread

Ive seen this shot before somewhere...theres a second picture....the other boat hits him ....
Cheers
Tug

 

Ummmm, Tug, I think it would post if you waited for the upload to complete first before clicking on the 'do-it' button in the browser???

 

Zanzibar Ships.......a nice site with many images (By Barghash, 2005).
http://www.zanzibarhistory.org/zanzibar_ships.htm

 

My beach, Meols again (Hoylake) showing a traditional Morecambe Bay prawner (Nobby) dry on the moorings and some wonderful clouds overhead. No doubt there was going to be a great sailing wind next tide.

 

Lovely shot, thanks for posting... Points not available yet...

 

Did I tell you about the Viking boat.... ?

 

Someone did - in the Pacific? even....

 

big drag race this weekend


man i cant wait im going to rig this new boat out we just built
i got a drag fairing going on there
look out shes a fast one

 

Past Kilo record holder

Here's a favorite airbrush done when you actually used a tiny spraygun and cut frisket templets, I do miss those days. The painting was inspired as I was wannabe designer wrenching in the greaspits of the offshore race team and found this wooden boat beautiful and outragius at the same time. Eight Mercury power heads, strung into dual power trains. Elegant solutions combining past wood boat crafting techniques with restrained composite surfaces and the power heads! Now there was some creative doing, we cast resonant "tuned" exhaust chambers into the belt support castings. The engine blocks were the lightest 200 hp+ 2-strokes Mercury could provide.

 

Now that's spooky. I've just come from the staff canteen where Gordon Lightfoot's song "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was playing on the radio, and I see this.

 

Yesterday was the 33rd anniv. of the sinking of the "Big Fitz". Coincidentally it was also my 28th anniv. of joining the Coast Guard. I was on a standby dive ship when they raised the bell in '95. It was a moving moment I'll remember all my life.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sputnik,_river_ship,_Togliatti,_Russia.JPG



Many hovercraft in Canada pictures:
http://www.decastris.com/hcc/canada.htm