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Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by kach22i, Mar 30, 2006.

  1. A II
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    Fantastic, thanks for posting !
     
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    NRP Sagres (former Albert Leo Schlageter) at Porto, Portugal three years ago.
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    As the shown bridge tells it's the port of Leixões at the mouth of the river Leça, just a few miles northwest of the city of Porto at the mouth of the river Douro, however Leixões lies in the Porto district, and the city of Porto doesn't, don't know how this dismemberment originated.

    Hoyt visited her sister the USCGC Eagle in Tampa about a decade ago, see post #2935, they were once German ships, seized after WW II.

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    Re post #2932:
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    Think the animal is less dangerous in the water, so I'd rather swim with it than try to keep up running in front . . :eek:

    The week in pictures: 9 July 2010

    ‘‘ A bull chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the Bous a la Mar - or Bulls to the Sea - festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia. ’’
     
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    You have a great memory.
     
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    You've mentioned her previous German name Horst Wessel, he's infamous for his song, the unofficial anthem of the Nazi party, that made it stuck in my mind and made it easy to find it too with the forum search option, as these two words together are only mentioned a few times on these forums till now.
     
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    I was able to visit the Eagle in June of 1972 when she visited Galveston. I was seriously considering joining the USCG at that point.
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    Is that 1972 sailor up the mast secured ? - Did you instead of the USCG went for the railroads Jolly ?

     
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    I went into electronics engineering. After retiring I volunteer a lot on a tourist railroad doing restoration and repair on train cars. Here I am wielding my favorite tool, a hammer.
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    Don't force it. Use a bigger hammer. I dug a 2 feet deep by 40 feet long ditch with a sledgehammer once and once is enough.
     
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    A ferry plowing into swells after departing Wellington, NZ.
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    Just a strong tide going against the wind.:D
     
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    It could be anchored against a tidal bore... (a large wave caused by the funneling of a flood tide as it enters a long, narrow, shallow inlet)

    Like on the Qiantang River in East China . . :eek:





    Or like in the UK while some are River Surfing



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