Showing posts with label Prototype Pictures - Boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prototype Pictures - Boats. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Waterborne Wedneday: Tin Bath Racing

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One of our Manx highlights was the Castletown Tin Bath races. It's one of those events that people on TV travel shows seem to find, and ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Warehouse Wednesday: Swiss coal transhipment

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An interesting view from a couple of years ago in Switzerland. Approaching Thun on the boat, we passed by this gantry for moving coal from s...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: City centre slipway

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    Right in the centre of York, there is a sizable boat slipway. It appears to be a private facility for City Cruises, as one of their boat...
Saturday, October 04, 2025

Saturday Film Club: How to build a Shannon class lifeboat

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I've not done any model boat building this year. Maybe watching the pros doing it might inspire me? 
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: Peel Engineering workshop

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Another one from the Isle of Man, this time the workshops that used to produce the fibreglass parts for the famous Peel 500, Trident, and Vi...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Saturday Film Club: Then and now: RNLI lifeboats over the years

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Lifeboats are brilliant, and this is a film about their development. Seriously, how brave did you have to be to go out in a rowing boat? I w...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Warehouse Wednesday: PS Waverley

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  One benefit of the Glasgow show is that the hotel and venue were a short walk apart. Better still, if I picked the right bridge to cross, ...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Waterborne Wednesday: Magellan Delta

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My parents have been on holiday in Cornwall, and return with some boat photos. The one that really caught my eye was the Magellan Delta - l...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Waterborne Wednesday: Liverpool workboat

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A mystery from my Manx trip. Spotted in Liverpool, while we waited to board the ferry, was this boat with a crane on the end of it. Oddly, I...
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Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Waterbourne Wednesday: Dry dock for canal boats

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Part way thorough the flight of locks at Hatton, and handy for the excellent cafe, is this dry-dock for narrow boats .  The short arm can be...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Waterborne Wednesday: Money can't buy taste

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Last week I showed you a very attractive super-yacht . This week, we look at what is moored in front of it. Words fail me. I'm sure it i...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Waterborne Wednesday: MV Pioneer

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The day I find myself rich enough to own a super-yacht, I think I want it to look like the MV Pioneer.  I spotted this stunning vessel in Gr...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Waterborne Wednesday: SD Bovisand

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My parents have just returned from a holiday in Cornwall, and as well as bringing me back several bottles of cider, they also have some inte...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Medway Queen

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On a recent trip to Ramsgate, I headed toward the excellent Peters Fish Factory for tea, and what should be on the slipway opposite? Famous...
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Saturday, May 01, 2021

Saturday Film Club: The river Thames in 1959

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  Time to don the rose tinted glasses and take a super-saturated trip with the Look at Life team, along the river Thames. In those days, the...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Waterborne Wednesday: Canal workboats

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  A quick trip to Hatton Locks for some research allowed me to grab photos of a couple of the Canal & Waterways Trusts workboats. I kno...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Basil in a tight spot

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  Canal spotting in Birmingham, I found this bridge with a very narrow section of waterway underneath it. Modern canal boats are 6ft 10inche...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Racing hovercraft

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  Other than this is in the Isle of Man motor museum , I can't tell you anything useful about this hovercraft - other than it is seri...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Pl5 on a trailer

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  Taken on the Isle of Man couple of years ago, fishing dingy PL5 is berthed on its trailer on the beach.  This is an interesting little p...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Saturday Film club: London Docks

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  With all the tugboat work, I thought these films showing classic London docks would be interesting. It seems amazing to me that there used...
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