Nautical Oddities

[vacendak]

flashmovie is here ; not all of you read Russian so, to watch the movie,
please open the webpage and do as indicated below, смотреть = watch




WHAT HAPPENED: A RICH RUSSIAN GUY BOUGHT A NEW MOTORBOAT
as they said on TV, it was 1,600,000 EUR worth.
So a company of 7 people, including pregnant wife of lucky owner :kissy:
came to celebrate this bargain :cubalibre
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT: they started the engine - unmoored - hit another
boat, approximately same size and value - and STRANDED !
that all happened on a half-mile distance in 10 minutes time
on the Moscow river, within city limits; all company, including owner
and (possibly ?) captain - - disappeared ;

what you see there are navigation results and comments of driven-crazy fellow boaters

OH, THOSE RUSSIANS

[imagine2frolic]

OMG,

I am 57, but remember like it was yesterday being around 10yrs old, and riding the subs at Disney. I think they were battleship gray then............

[GordMay]

“H2O-R8” Cat:
http://newsblogg.viztech.se/2008/09/...biodiesel-cat/

Concept Cat: VizTech "H2O-R8" - YachtForums.Com

[knottybuoyz]

Anyone care to add a caption to this cool photo?

[Lancerbye]

Wait till those Lilliputans find out that we are giants. They are going to crap themselves.

Even in the world of RC Ships, the Coast Guard carries an ominous presence.

[shadow]

CAPTION:

"I can't believe that this is the 3rd time I'm taking this tug boat training class! I'm sick of failing this dumb course"

[Ex-Calif]

"Hey Bob. How do you tell when a sailboat goes under the keel."
"Who cares?"

[Little Otter]

Originally Posted by dacust

you wouldn't happen to know Michael McPherson would you?

[Little Otter]

caption ( hey bob, what happens when the batteries die? do we have to paddle back?)

[knottybuoyz]

Amphicars are/have been all the rage eh? When I was a kid my uncle worked at a Dodge dealership and brought home one of their amphicars for a test drive.

[David M]

The sail control room of the Maltese Falcon



Is that a warp reactor in the background?

[David M]

At the opposite end of the rich-poor spectrum: For sale on Ebay, a nice fishing boat. Complete with a cabin!




Fishing boat, unique design just add outboard and paint on eBay, also, Dinghies Boats, Sailing, Sporting Goods (end time 05-Oct-08 20:36:06 BST)

[freetime]

Originally Posted by knottybuoyz

Anyone care to add a caption to this cool photo?

Some people have to much "freetime"

[sugar and spice]

Hey! Thats Desdemona's Cosmic muffin!

You know Jimmy Buffet sings about Desdemona in the song "Fruitcakes" and she and the ship, which coincidentally she goes to the islands aboard, in the book "Where's Joe Merchant?"

Now that is a Jimmy Buffet Fan...

Originally Posted by dacust