Wooden Boat Festival: Parade of Sail, sort of

[xenith]

The end of the parade of sail, because I missed most of it even though I went down early, and camera decided it was too hard to take photos, so I gave in and put it on Automatic, which isn't a mode I usually use but sometimes it's just not worth fighting about.

I don't think they need captions, although I'll name the usual suspects. Also, the better photos (and my little movie) are towards the end.




Enterprize & James Craig


Lady Nelson



The Lady again, with Julie Burgess behind.



Yukon came from Denmark.



Meanwhile, back at the pier...



Notorious and James Craig



Yukon again.



There seems to be something of a traffic control problem here. Rear/middle is a police boat.



I think they're trying to clear the "road". Here is a quite a bit of ship to bring in.

I thought I'd try to find a good position to get some photos of her coming in. I did better than I expected :)

Quality isn't as good on youtube, but as the original is 250 mb I won't offer to send it out :)










Then around at the marina, half an hour later...


Also some traffic problems.



Stern first!

Just a few seconds :)

Comments

[aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics. I'm a sucker for those old ships.

Do you know what that huge cruise ship monster in the background of the first photo is?

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Celebrity Solstice, it seems
http://www.celebritycruises.com/explore/ships/detail.do?shipCode=SL

It came and went on Friday (and gave a couple of thousand people a distorted idea about Hobart, I'm sure. With the wooden boats, regatta & Hobart cup, the population sort of doubles that weekend.)

You've been quiet lately?

[aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com]

2850 passengers? That's madness, lol. I did a Baltic Sea cruise last year in a ship that can hold 800 passengers, though only 640 had booked, and that's pretty much the uppermost size I still consider fun.

I'm not quiet, but I don't use LJ as blogging platform anymore. My main blog is here (http://lostfort.blogspot.com).