Now here are some ships in a really big sea..

Yes:) An infinite sea.

New boat on the Thames this morning :-)

This is funny. I saw that TV show "Thunderbirds" in Britain 1973:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfIAKj3Gl1E

I really enjoyed that show. Would love to have been part of that team.

The new CGI series has just started here, it's not bad, but Ithink I preferred the charm of the original in "Supermarionation"

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Happy Crunching,

Graham

Here's an original you wont like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32201995

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

They should try to enter one of our milk carton or cardboard boat races.

Of course you can I am not the only one on this forum that it will apply to;)

But it is Essex mate, you know, the home of Essex girls.

Q. How do Essex girls turn the light off when they have sex?
A. They shut the car door.

The men apparently aren't much better!

Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

I really like that, can I borrow it please ?

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

Ahh yeah but these are children, mostly, I think that the perps were "adults".

They should try to enter one of our milk carton or cardboard boat races.

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

Here's an original you wont like http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32201995

I've seen less-seaworthy craft. Couple coats of fiberglass, a bit of paint, and something to keep the oars from getting away, perhaps....
And lifejackets and a signal lamp or flashlight.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

In the UK there are a number of "Crafty raft races throughout the Summer, lots of fun to watch and take part in.

Photos from one:-

http://www.craftycraft.com/gallery.aspx

There are some really dodgy-looking craft there.

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Happy Crunching,

Graham

Thanks for the link Graham:)

Newbury Round Table 391 last year on their wonderful Crafty Craft Race event.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=719403048180062&fref=nf

Still time to enter a craft for Newbury Crafty Craft on Monday 4th May.
Trailer last year:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_V8Rn2rIO4w

Way back in 1980, Edenbridge Round Table used to organise the Edenbridge pram race, looks like they brought it back. Very similar to the Crafty Craft race, silly hats and costumes and daft conveyances all for charity.

Pram race

I have an entry that will blow them out of the water.

We tried to enter it one year, but had our entry refused...
Our boat was a 55ft narrowboat to be propelled on its way a couple of dozen (or more) "lusty lads" from a couple of rugby clubs - the problem was we were far bigger than anything they had thought about as being a raft, or even a canoe...
I doubt that we would have one the water race, but the drinking race would have been another matter, just by shear numbers

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I met a gentleman in Kona, HI 12 years ago who was a part time bar tender at the "Martini Yacht Club"(now gone). I saw him last year when he and his wife visited Denver. He now works security for a local Kona estate owner who also happens to own the Seattle Seahawks, Paul Allen(yeah Microsoft).

Here's his little runabout, "Octopus". For size note the helicopter on the fantail. It also carries a multipassenger submarine that can stay submerged for several days.



http://www.marineinsight.com/sports-luxury/yachting/octopus-paul-allens-luxurious-super-mega-yacht/

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

I spent some time on his first yatch "Charade"
Best memory was a bottle of 1974 Domaines Barons de Rothschild Chateau Lafite that he brought over to my boat one evening.

My boat called Ana was a bit modest.

Built in 1939 in Bohuslän by carpenter apprentices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_(keelboat)

Britannia Yacht Club
2777 Cassels Street,
Ottawa Ontario, K2B 6N6

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Nice.
It's a submarine for fun.
Diving and looking in the sea without getting wet:)

Swedish submarine HMS Gotland, with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Photo: US Navy.
http://rasmusliberal.com/2014/04/15/endast-sverige-svenska-ubatar-har/

U-505, Chicago, Museum Science and Industry.. Captured, Enigma codes decoded by Allies in real time in WWII..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's