Comments | submarine_bells: Catchup Photo Post 3 - Sunset Cruise on the One And All

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Catchup Photo Post 3 - Sunset Cruise on the One And All

Jan 30, 2009 13:29

One of the highlights of the last week or two was a dinner cruise on the One And All, a brigantine that operates out of Port Adelaide. She's mostly used for sail training, but she does regular short cruises as well. Artyem and I went on a "Sunset Cruise", a 4-hour trip (including dinner) that goes out through the Port waterways and pootles around ( Read more... )

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wcg January 30 2009, 05:10:48 UTC

Very nice, weatherly looking vessel. I bet it was great fun.

submarine_bells January 30 2009, 05:29:48 UTC

It was, immense fun!

You cut a very fine figure in that uniform, as depicted in your userpic. Quite splendid! And highly appropriate to the topic at hand, even if the One And All was launched in 1985 rather than 1885 (or earlier) as one might conclude from her looks. :-)

aquaeri January 30 2009, 06:14:36 UTC

It looks great, and you can steal ideas for Second Life :-).

submarine_bells February 3 2009, 08:21:01 UTC

Hee! Actually, as it happens I already own a brigantine in SL much like this one ('cept its made of pixels, natch) and it's moored outside my store. In a fit of whimsy I named it the "Cutty Slark". *giggle*

jinian January 30 2009, 07:14:45 UTC

Ooh, the dolphin rail is wonderful! Looks like a great trip.

submarine_bells February 3 2009, 08:21:59 UTC

Yeah, I thought it was a particularly charming and whimsical touch on an otherwise quite straightforward and workmanlike sort of ship. A pretty little flourish!

expandranon February 3 2009, 06:48:09 UTC

That looks wonderful! Wish I could have come.

By the way, what's the technical name for the figure that's often attached to the prow of the boat?

submarine_bells February 3 2009, 08:19:34 UTC

That would be the figurehead. Pretty, isn't she?

expandranon February 3 2009, 09:32:59 UTC

Yes, very nice! For some reason, I kept thinking "masthead", which I knew to be horribly wrong, but I couldn't shake it.

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kim_huett February 5 2009, 01:07:06 UTC

My but that looks very nautical. Looks like you had near perfect weather for the trip too, at least the sea looks nice and flat. I assume they were running on the engine rather than using any of the sails given the conditions?

You don't mention what they served you for dinner consisted or if it was any good or not. Am curious to know because I can't imagine whoever served up the food did any actual cooking on board. That was surely done on shore, before the cruise and put into hotboxes. In which case I'd be curious to know how adventurous the menu was and how good the end result was.

Also, what the heck is it on the horizon in the last photo. It looks more like a steampunk oilrig than a ship but of course this might be an illusion caused by looking at it from an unusual angle.

submarine_bells February 5 2009, 01:21:04 UTC

My but that looks very nautical. Looks like you had near perfect weather for the trip too, at least the sea looks nice and flat. I assume they were running on the engine rather than using any of the sails given the conditions?

The weather was absolutely *perfect*! We motored out through the Port Adelaide channels (necessary since they're narrowish, bendy and populated with other traffic) but were under sail for the two hours or so that we were out in St Vincent's Gulf. The sixth photo (the one with me and Artyem in) shows the corners of a couple of sails while they were raised. The sea looks flat (it always looks flat in the Gulf, given how sheltered it is) but there was certainly wind sufficient for sailing! We were far from the only sailing vessel out on the water that evening.

You don't mention what they served you for dinner consisted or if it was any good or not. Am curious to know because I can't imagine whoever served up the food did any actual cooking on board. That was surely done on shore, before the cruise and put into ( ... )

kim_huett March 10 2009, 03:48:06 UTC

Ah, so the wind can be strong enough to move a decent sized saiiling ship like you were on without it whipping up waves? Or were none of the photos included here taken while the ship was under sail? I was assuming that calm water equals no wind but of course that might not be true at all. (This is ocean stuff after all and I stay away from oceans because of the danger of tsunamis ( ... )