Tall Ships

[jow104]

Saturday mid day BST there is a tall ships race if anyone is interested there shoud be live video from our local webcam site at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/webcams/torquay_webcam.shtml

[jow104]

Took a walk down to the pier and got in 58 pics.
If interested there will be fireworks at aound 21.30/22.00 BST to night, might be on the web cam.
In the meantime these are the kind of boats racing.

[Gumby]

Took a walk down to the pier and got in 58 pics.
If interested there will be fireworks at aound 21.30/22.00 BST to night, might be on the web cam.
In the meantime these are the kind of boats racing.

Bloody magnificent. I wish I was there.

[ozwinner]

Bloody magnificent. I wish I was there.

No, no, Gumby, Its.
Wish you were here..

Al

[jow104]

Just think if you were in Torbay tonight you could be press ganged and go voyaging for awhile.


They are also advertising vacancies for sailors. Most probably experienced females preferred.

[jow104]

Another view of the sailing ships from our road.

Try and get one tomorrow at noon with the start of the race I think there should be at least nine tall ships sailing.
Going to Spain and back due the 17th Sept.

[Daddles]

I'm barracking for the one with all those big guns

Richard

bloody Jow - first they beat us at the cricket and now he torments us with boat

[oges]

Not sure if this is the same event, but someone at the Wodonga weekend I attended on the weekend mentioned that they burnt a replica of the Bounty for charity. Did you hear of this?

Apparently it wasnt just a roughly made tall ship either, but quite an accurate replica too ... seems a waste of good timber.

and im not sure exactly how money is raised by burning a ship either

[jow104]

There have been a number of replica sailing ships built and burnt recently but IMHO they are more like stage furniture type constructions.
However they have been full size, which means a lot of timber and materials must have been spent.
Some people just like fires!!!!!!!

As regards the tall ships race which started last Saturday it was a disaster regarding photographs, we had a SE force 4/5 come in with a thick haze which did not clear until 2 hours after the race started.
So I stayed in my workshop and spent upto 12 hours trying to cut 8 mitre joints for a jewellery box. The box started out tobe 9 x 5" then got down to 7 x 5" and eventurally finished up as a box for me to store nails.
C.I. table saws are not always accurate

[echnidna]

So I stayed in my workshop and spent upto 12 hours trying to cut 8 mitre joints for a jewellery box. The box started out tobe 9 x 5" then got down to 7 x 5" and eventurally finished up as a box for me to store nails.
C.I. table saws are not always accurate

Thats how I make boxes too.
I make picture frames the same way too!