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Feb. 14th, 2005 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithOn futher consideration, I won't do a report on the Wooden Boat Festival. I updated that web page instead.
Took a gazillion photos to get one of the Windeward Bound that didn't look like a dark grey glop. Didn't do much better with the James Craig either, except that was a black glop. Frustrating.
That aside, I'm rather pleased with the 'results' of that trip down to Hobart. Most of the novel I'm currently working is set on a ship and I've been on that sort of ship, or even seen one. Actually, I wasn't even sure what sort. Seeing as how I'd never been on one to use as a guide.
Although, I'd been thinking 3 masted barque, not too big, about the size of, oh, the James Craig there. And about the same vintage. So, I paid over my $8 to go on board and tooks lots of photos. It would seem the restoration was done with the intent of showing visitors what a ship of the era would actually have been like, which was particularly handy.
(Although, the Weaver tells me, she's a bit broader and doesn't have all that open space, it's enclosed, for the crew's quarters. "For the crew? Why do they need that much more space?" "Ah, oh! It's for my guns." I should have known. "And what about your hold? You know, the one were the prisoners go? Is that down below? Or can I use some of that 'open' space?" She'll think about that. "And you know I'm not iron, or black." "Yes, I do." "In fact, I'm THAT colour." Ah, I knew I took all those photos of the Windeward Bound for a reason.)
Took a gazillion photos to get one of the Windeward Bound that didn't look like a dark grey glop. Didn't do much better with the James Craig either, except that was a black glop. Frustrating.
That aside, I'm rather pleased with the 'results' of that trip down to Hobart. Most of the novel I'm currently working is set on a ship and I've been on that sort of ship, or even seen one. Actually, I wasn't even sure what sort. Seeing as how I'd never been on one to use as a guide.
Although, I'd been thinking 3 masted barque, not too big, about the size of, oh, the James Craig there. And about the same vintage. So, I paid over my $8 to go on board and tooks lots of photos. It would seem the restoration was done with the intent of showing visitors what a ship of the era would actually have been like, which was particularly handy.
(Although, the Weaver tells me, she's a bit broader and doesn't have all that open space, it's enclosed, for the crew's quarters. "For the crew? Why do they need that much more space?" "Ah, oh! It's for my guns." I should have known. "And what about your hold? You know, the one were the prisoners go? Is that down below? Or can I use some of that 'open' space?" She'll think about that. "And you know I'm not iron, or black." "Yes, I do." "In fact, I'm THAT colour." Ah, I knew I took all those photos of the Windeward Bound for a reason.)
