Random Picture Thread

found this picture... along with about 1000 more... all free for the using. Here is a smaller taster but the link is 1920x 1200.

Anyone have any idea what this beauty is or where it might originate from?



http://www.angelfire.com/ego/lewisboatworks/Stuff/Misc/Mirror_Boat.jpg

Here is the Site for the pics... enjoy! http://boats.desktopnexus.com/cat/sailboats/

 

Fantastic picture. Looks Northern...Norway ?

I wonder if its photo shopped ? Certainly the rigging doesn't fit

 

If you look at the big one... I don't think so. The title is "Boat on lake" or some such...

These are similar if larger... Norse looking for sure with the square sails!



http://www.angelfire.com/ego/lewisboatworks/Stuff/Misc/Nice_Pair.jpg

 

Yup ,look at the flag.

And those boats look to have working rigging.

Beautiful boats

 

ok, it's probably just me, but it looks like the boom will hit the interior
side? I suppose the sails are not raised all the way up?

beautiful boat for sure

 

MSC delivers patrol boat for Iraqi navy
http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2011/January/patrolboat.htm

 

Days gone by . . .

This links has some remarkable and thought-provoking pictures from around the World shortly after the end of WW2.

For me, image #17 has the most profound memories; St. Paul's cathedral amid the ruins of London appears just as I recall it now, long after I cycled past it in 1954. From a modern perspective it seems surprising that so little had been done in 9 years since the end of the war apart from carting off the rubble and fencing off the dangerous parts.

The truth is that enormous efforts were put into providing temporary housing during the first years of peace. I recall the pre-fabs of the time, which were mostly constructed with asbestos sheet; some people had to live in those tiny houses for decades. Although we would now regard them as death-traps I was quite jealous of my friends that lived in them, they were warm and cosy with none of the drafts of my parents bomb-shaken house.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-after-the-war/100180/

 

Interesting Engineering
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...62817493.25247.139188202817559&type=1&theater

Thank you for posting this incredible link.

 

The old photos of London were nice ..Thanks for the link.

With yachts Ive never sailed into London so my eyes are not calibrated to appreciate change. The historic European city I have visited by sailboat over the decades is St Petersburg, one of the most beautiful cities Ive ever seen.

A friend sent this interesting photo link to St Petersburg.

http://oldsp.ru/

The link is very slow and it takes time to figure out how the site works but its well worthwhile for anyone who has visited St Petersburg. Its a Google earth format with pictures linked to location.

This is the ferry dock that visiting yachts use to clear into Russia. I can remember our cameras being confiscated at customs, armed guards stationed next to the boat to protect innocent Russians from foreigners and special guides appointed to show us the tourist sites.

http://

 

Here's a blast from the past -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PjLpqWFFEo

 

Cruse under sails.

 

Some more work coming off the Gorton:

 

Is that the 1A ? have you converted it to CNC ? Lovely engraving.

 

Hi Mike

It's a 3U.
http://gorton-machine.org/forms/form_1321/index.html
Still a manual machine. This is of a friends Deadrise. I made up the master from a photo of his boat.

And done:

 

The Black Marble

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/712129main_8247975848_88635d38a1_o.jpg

edit:
Sorry, I didn't realize how big the jpg's were These are more manageable.

Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html