MarkC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 (edited) Here's a few photos of Istanbul/the Bosphorus. I think that one of the observation towers was used in "The World is Not Enough". 2x kamikazi ferries are included too! The last shot is from the Black Sea, looking back towards the channel as the sun was setting. Asia to the left, Europe to the right! Mark Edited October 27, 2019 by MarkC amending trypping eror... 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 4 hours ago, MarkC said: Here's a few photos of Istanbul/the Bosphorus. I think that one of the observation towers was used in "The World is Not Enough". 2x kamikazi ferries are included too! The last shot is from the Black Sea, looking back towards the channel as the sun was setting. Asia to the left, Europe to the right! Mark Marvelous! Thank you. This is still one of my ambitions, albeit in (perhaps) a slightly smaller vessel than yours! Unfortunately I haven't been sailing for a few years now. (Arthritis and the North Sea don't go together very well.) Caroline Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, drmditch said: Marvelous! Thank you. This is still one of my ambitions, albeit in (perhaps) a slightly smaller vessel than yours! Unfortunately I haven't been sailing for a few years now. (Arthritis and the North Sea don't go together very well.) Caroline You have to see it yourself to fully appreciate it, Caroline Istanbul is huge, and the scenery is spectacular. As for size - the ship was the "Coral Patula", some 110 metres in length. She is dwarfed by most of today's passenger ships. But I presume you're talking about doing it in one of them there wind propelled leisure craft? I'm glad you liked the photos. Best Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 For those of a certain age: I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a fast ship and a company like BI, With two white bands and an Indian crew on a regular run to Bombay, Or two and half years on the Indian coast and twenty per cent more pay. (With apologies to John Masefield) 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Nice one. There's this little ditty too.. Dear Lord above Send down a Dove With wings as sharp as razors To slit the throats Of them there blokes Wot sells bad beer to sailors... (Unknown author) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 2 hours ago, MarkC said: (Unknown author) Was it Ronnie Barker or Gerald Wiley? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said has a personal fleet of pleasure craft of the Oman Royal Yacht Squadron. Here are two of them 'Al Said' in Muscat Oman 25th November 2019 It is Number 1 in the Royal Squadron. 'The Fulk al Salamah' leaving Muscat 25th November 2019. This is Number 2 in the Royal Squadron. There are a total of five yachts in the Squadron. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 12 minutes ago, NorthBrit said: HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said has a personal fleet of pleasure craft of the Oman Royal Yacht Squadron. Here are two of them 'Al Said' in Muscat Oman 25th November 2019 It is Number 1 in the Royal Squadron. 'The Fulk al Salamah' leaving Muscat 25th November 2019. This is Number 2 in the Royal Squadron. There are a total of five yachts in the Squadron. As Chesty Morgan used to say: "If you've got it, flaunt it!" 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 MSC Bellissima in Muscat 25th November 2019 Queen Elizabeth 2 in Dubai 29th November 2019 Q E 2 and MSC Bellissama in Dubai 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 'Marella Dream' in Heraklion, Crete 16th November 2019. Picture taken from on board MSC Bellissima. 'MSC Bellissima' in Heraklion, Crete 16th November 2019. Picture taken from on board Marella Dream 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 I have made a Revell model of the Titanic. i made it on the 14th/15th April this year (which is the days when the Titanic sank in 1912) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 5 minutes ago, 6990WitherslackHall said: I have made a Revell model of the Titanic. i made it on the 14th/15th April this year (which is the days when the Titanic sank in 1912) Each time we have crossed the Atlantic, be it QE2 and now QM2, a wreath has been laid at the site of where Titanic sank. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Just now, NorthBrit said: Each time we have crossed the Atlantic, be it QE2 and now QM2, a wreath has been laid at the site of where Titanic sank. They said it was unsinkable and yet it still sank. Rather sad about all those people who didn't survive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 Part of the Suez Canal is two ways. The Southbound convoy are coming down on the left of the picture. Northbound convoys go to the right. Leaving the Suez Canal and entering the Gulf of Suez. Seabourn Odyssey is ahead of us 18th November 2019 Passing Seabourn Odyssey in the Gulf of Suez 18th November 2019 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 Or as an old saying went (just the more acceptable bit). '.... and Suez is right up it.' 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Used to say that of the Persian Gulf....and Bandar Mashur was 20 miles up it..... 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 11 minutes ago, alastairq said: Used to say that of the Persian Gulf....and Bandar Mashur was 20 miles up it..... what's Bandar Mashur? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve W Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Quote what's Bandar Mashur? Variations of spelling aside, I suspect it refers to a tanker loading port right at the top of the Gulf. A location metaphorically '20miles up' the alluded to physiological area (if the world had piles, this is where they'd be) and hotter and more unpleasant than the passage of a vindaloo down said area when affected with piles. A region I used to visit regularly in the late 70's, Interesting times. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach james Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Oh, I'd say that Djibouti was close to it too...the camel dock was something to be experienced ! James 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, 6990WitherslackHall said: what's Bandar Mashur? The of the world! Joined my first ship at Ras al Khaimah, bound for Bandar Mash. This is very late July/early August. Second sez to me the following day, (on going down below "Go and help Lecky in the steering flat". So there we were in a steel box, at the top end of the Gulf in August (outside temperature somewhere around 110 degrees F) sliding around in hydraulic oil on the deck, which had leaked from the steering gear. What an introduction to a merchant navy career! Wasn't it renamed Bandar-al-Khomeini after the revolution in 1979? Edited December 4, 2019 by 62613 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, 62613 said: The of the world! Joined my first ship at Ras al Khaimah, bound for Bandar Mash. This is very late July/early August. Second sez to me the following day, (on going down below "Go and help Lecky in the steering flat. So there we were in a steel box, at the top end of the Gulf in August (outside temperature somewhere around 110 degrees F) sliding around in hydraulic oil on the deck, which had leaked from the steering gear. What an introduction to a merchant navy career! When I started my MN career, many of our ships bring crude from the PG (as it was then) were around 30,000 DWT and air conditioning was an afterthought. My last few ships had air conditioned engine control rooms and lifts to access them. How things changed in under 20 years! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Didn't they just! Which company? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, 62613 said: Didn't they just! Which company? Started with Shell, finished with CP Ships and had a couple of others in between, how about you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Most of the ports in the Perishin' Gulf were awful; blistering heat, the hot air off the desert where you can feel your skin crack as it dries out and the sickening stench of H2S everywhere. I never really noticed the latter in tankers, but when I first went back up the PG in a general cargo ship I remember almost throwing up as we neared Kuwait the odour was so intense. I didn't mind Bahrain for a run ashore, plus Dubai and the Omani ports weren't too terrible either. Honourable mention should really go to the old tanker berth in Lagos, the one next to the slaughterhouse. Those who had the extreme misfortune to visit will certainly remember.... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Kingzance Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Bon Accord said: Honourable mention should really go to the old tanker berth in Lagos, the one next to the slaughterhouse. Those who had the extreme misfortune to visit will certainly remember.... Yep, bitumen and or fuel oil into there a few times, worse than rank! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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