Your bike in front of a boat
- Thread starter Andy in Germany
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FrothNinja
Guru
On your travels again?
That looks like Castlebay/Kisimul. The only Sannox I know is on Arran.
Irrespective, I am jealous, though I am quite happy to be largely undercover this week.
'Tis Castlebay. Glen Sannox is the name of the ferry in the background.
FrothNinja
Guru
I am an amadán - should have twigged given the thread title
FrothNinja
Guru
A profusion of thin boats ahead
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Andy in Germany
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
I think P&O have all their ships registered there to avoid EU taxes or something.
a.twiddler
Veteran
And a fine sight she is too. Interestingly, at least to me, in summer 1981 Waverley, and another more modern ship, the heroically named Prince Ivanhoe, keeping the Sir Walter Scott connection, (formerly an Isle of Wight passenger ferry named Shanklin), were involved in excursions in the Bristol Channel.
It so happened that I'd planned a solo YHA tour from where I lived in South Wales at the time to mid Wales then the borders, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire then Bath, Somerset, and Devon. Return from Ilfracombe to Mumbles. I'd hoped to get the timing right to catch the Waverley but Prince Ivanhoe was the main ship in the Bristol Channel, while Waverley was used for excursions further afield, only occasionally being available there. So, the Prince Ivanhoe it was. It had been a fine sunny tour, with little rain, and it was an enjoyable voyage across the Bristol Channel.
The point of this rambling write up was that ten days or so after my trip on the Prince Ivanhoe, she hit an underwater object object in Port Eynon Bay while on an excursion round the Gower, was badly holed, and began to sink.
The captain ran her up the beach at Horton and all the passengers were taken off, though one died from a heart attack shortly afterwards. It was low tide, and as the tidal range there is 25 -30 feet the ship soon became unsalvageable. The winter storms did the rest. The wreck was finally cut up and removed in 1984. It was a big story locally, and many people had been aboard through that summer. A sad tale, but the Waverley continues on.
I didn't have a decent camera at the time so I took the liberty of posting a picture from the internet. It seems to be just leaving Ilfracombe here.
