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Post by Saltysplash on Nov 12, 2016 14:36:52 GMT
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Post by bargemast on Nov 12, 2016 15:23:12 GMT
What a shame, Nice little project is the understatment of the year This is TID 164 as she was at Chatham when I moored there Oil fired steam engine and had one of those lovely steam whoop whoop whistles
It's to bad that there's no sound with this photo, as I'm fairly sure you would have liked the sound of this steam-whistle organ that this gorgeous Swiss boat has.
Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 12, 2016 15:25:14 GMT
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Post by Saltysplash on Nov 12, 2016 16:37:49 GMT
What a shame, Nice little project is the understatment of the year This is TID 164 as she was at Chatham when I moored there Oil fired steam engine and had one of those lovely steam whoop whoop whistles
It's to bad that there's no sound with this photo, as I'm fairly sure you would have liked the sound of this steam-whistle organ that this gorgeous Swiss boat has.
Peter.
I want a go
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Post by tonyqj on Nov 12, 2016 18:27:40 GMT
The Yanks do everything bigger and better...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 19:24:43 GMT
I've heard musical air horns but never come across the steam whistles. Nice.
going back to the military stuff - I'm not sure if a woopwoop whistle can be run on air or if it relies on high pressure steam. I've seen it suggested that a recording played through a decent pa system is the best way to achieve the effect.
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Post by tonyqj on Nov 12, 2016 19:40:04 GMT
Are you guys talking about this kind of horn?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 19:46:16 GMT
I was yes I believe it is seen as the holy grail of boat horns/whistles if you like that sort of thing. I do.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 12, 2016 20:04:32 GMT
The Yanks do everything bigger and better... Well I think that that is what they think, but I know of a Steamship in the Netherlands that is at least as good, if not better then the U.S. one, and also not as far away.
www.google.com/maps/@52.3335068,5.2210807,3a,75y,265.09h,53.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s71lAJ_sQBSoAAAGu5uzcBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=nl
Here a slide show (with sadly enough only a Dutch text) of the conversion of an 1897 Steam Tug into this beauty www.partyschipsucces.nl/partyschip-succes/historie-geschiedenis-partyschip-stoomboot-succes.html in the top right you can see more video clips if you click there.
I just discovered that she's for sale now, after checking my bank accounts, I'm only about 1.000.000 β¬ short of being able to buy her, so I'm nearly there.
www.apolloduck.com/feature.phtml?id=322939
If I buy, you're all invited for a little cruise while enjoying the sounds of her enormous Calliope, which is the biggest of Europe :
Checking out these links will keep you busy for a bit.
Enjoy,
Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 12, 2016 20:07:31 GMT
It's to bad that there's no sound with this photo, as I'm fairly sure you would have liked the sound of this steam-whistle organ that this gorgeous Swiss boat has.
Peter.
I want a go Good find Saltysplash.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 20:46:26 GMT
I learnt french and Latin at school. My other half is French so are my children so that is a useful language but I do wish it was Dutch they taught me rather than latin ! I guess not everyone ends up into boats like me.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 12, 2016 21:24:14 GMT
I learnt french and Latin at school. My other half is French so are my children so that is a useful language but I do wish it was Dutch they taught me rather than latin ! I guess not everyone ends up into boats like me. The only reason I learned Dutch is because I was born there, if not, I wouldn't have bothered learning a language that's of very little importance worldwide.
But because the Netherlands are so tiny, learning to speak other languages is important, as if you travel by car which ever way you go when leaving the center of the country, one hour later you'll find yourself in a different country where people speak a different language, and where you had to pay with a different kind of money, until the Euro.
I had 7 years of French at school, but was the only pupil the teacher would speak in Dutch to, because I never did anything to learn the language that was only spoken by people of which I thought they were rather strange, not knowing that at a later stage in my life I was going to live there.
Now after 37 years living in France, I learned the language being more motivated because of the french girlfriends that helped me in a much better way then the french teacher in the past.
But I know now that I was right with the idea I had about the French as a schoolboy, they are really rather strange, of course it's not entirely their fault to have been born here.
I also had 5 years of German, another language I didn't want to learn because of the missery my family had with people speaking that language a couple of years before I was born, so why bother learning their language ?
Not knowing that I was going to be based 4 years for the Dutch NATO troups in Germany during the cold war, where I discovered that it was so much easier to date the lovely farmers daughters in the area when you could speak their language, so there aswell then being motivated, and forgetting about my families past bad times, that had gone by, and I thought that it was time to find out what they were like myself.
If I'd had the choice I would have prefered to learn Spanish and Chinese, only because "Esperanto" never took off, as that would have been an even better choice.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 8:49:06 GMT
Another tug in danger I think. Museum of London are looking for someone to take over Varlet (40ft launch tug). She's lovely with original 2 cylinder widdop in there. Still a big project but not huge. One option is "recorded deconstruction" which would be sad imo. Its moored along with knocker white (which I am sure is scrap) at Docklands Museum West India Quay by Canary Woof. Varlet www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/2079/varletDetails of disposal www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/news.php/780/knocker-white-and-varletMay have been sold but Varlet was still there yesterday with no sign of an new owner. I think Varlet is great but I have too many boats. It would be a good heritage boat for east London as it worked the Lea and the Thames and the Docks.
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Post by cuthound on Nov 13, 2016 10:01:47 GMT
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Post by Saltysplash on Nov 13, 2016 17:05:42 GMT
Thats the style, always reminds me of those old WW2 Navy war films when a destroyer comes sweeping in to the rescue going woop woop woop eta wrong reply oops
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