Werde nun in unregelmäßigen Abständen Fotos von unserem Urlaub an der Ostsee posten.
Den Anfang macht:

"sail away"

War nicht ganz so einfach bei dem harten Sonnenlicht, das sich auf dem Wasser spiegelt.

#sailing #ships #seascape #balticsea #sea #ostsee #urlaub #foto #fotografie #Fotomontag #fotos #photo #photography #photographer

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
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Littoral combat #ships were supposed to launch the #Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their #weapons never worked.

Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.

#Military #DefenseSpending #Pentagon #LCS #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

hong kong, 1972

harbour life
hong kong island

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/3030207595

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Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #35mm #color #hongkong #china #chinese #harbor #harbour #people #boats #ships #1970s

Eine runde Sache, oder: Das Meer ruft #schiffssamstag #ships #shipsaturday #360degree

While shipping can certainly add an exciting layer of intrigue to a narrative, there's something profoundly meaningful about fostering and celebrating actual relationships within the world of storytelling.

(And it's definitely has nothing to do with the fact my ships are never cannon)

Look, I get it. I'm a sucker for shipping stuff. I think some of them are great fun, but I need to know that the teasing the author is doing will pay off in the end, otherwise I just don't see the point besides setting the ship on fire with oil while the other one sails away.

I love relationships, I love everything that comes with them. The commitment, the over protectiveness, the cutesy stuff, the weird things couples do but they can do them because they're in a relationship with each other. The way couples can read each others minds. Sure you can do this stuff without your characters getting together, but it's a different feeling when they are.
Having crushes is normal, having those crushes drag on is also normal, but waiting until the last book until they get together, while it can makes for some fine storytelling. Doesn't give you any room to actually explore what they're like as an actual couple.

It's one of those, they said "I love you" and now they live happily ever after sort of thing and I want to know what their life is like now that they're together.

Some people don't stay in relationships after they move in together because the person they had a crushed on, isn't the same person they live with. Show this side of relationships as well!

You created a ship, and at the very last chapter the ship sails...does it reach it destination, does it sink? What happened on the ship? There still are plenty of questions left to answer and those are the questions I wish more authors wrote about.

Am I salty my ship wasn't cannon? Yes, but please create more relationships and not just ships.

#writing #write #WritingCommunity #writer #books #author #bookstodon #book #wof #ships

#aberdeen The harbour is busy today. #ships #shipping #harbour

The old steam grain hopper tells the story of the Rotterdam Harbour.

This wonderful vessel, the Stadsgraanzuiger 19, formerly employed in Antwerp, has been restored and is in full working order. You can visit it in the Maritime Museum in the Leuvehaven in the heart of Rotterdam.

#Steam #Ships #MaritiemMuseum #Rotterdam #StadsGraanzuiger19
De oude graanzuiger vertelt het verhaal van de Rotterdamse haven - https://nos.nl/l/2488557

#drought #ships

https://www.businessinsider.com/sunken-world-war-1-wooden-ship-texas-river-jet-ski-2023-8

#pic #pics #pictures #picture #photo #photography #PhotoMonday #photografie #photographie #Fotomontag #foto #fotos #fotographie #fotografie #fotograf #wow #ship #ships #boat

Auf dem Weg in die hinterletzte Ecke des Hafens
#schiffe #ships #seefahrt

Sailing ships are pioneering.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66543643

Perhaps the new innovation is that they require fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ship

#ships #sailing #carbon

"The reason I'm so confident is our savings - one-and-a-half tonnes of fuel per day. Get four wings on a vessel, that's six tonnes of fuel saved, that's 20 tonnes of CO2 saved - per day. The numbers are massive."

#sail #ClimateChange #shipping #ships #AgeOfSail

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66543643

1) A sailboat in distress was rescued at sea by 18th century wooden merchant ship replica

“Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue”

https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

#TallShips #Ships #WoodenShips #Gotheborg #Boats

🏰🚢🛳🛥
#cechuvmost scastle #boats #ships #praha #prague #czech #photography

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/pentagon-climate-change-neta-crawford-book/

The necessity of, for example, getting #bases in #Hawaii to be sure to have #coal deposits that one can put into #ships, precedes or parallels the US’s interest in having bases #overseas for #oil.

#TragedyOfEnclosure #LandTheft #climatechanges #SubsistenceLandscapes #CorporateTheocracy #settlercolonial #monocrops #MauiWildfire #PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter

Yarr, and I cannot emphasize this strongly enough, me laddies. #pirates #PiratesOfTheSpanishMain #BoardGames #BoardGamesAToZ #yarr #nautical #ships #TallShipsOfMastodon

@peterdutoit Ask those flying why they "choose" a plane...

Usually it's lack if high speed rail [espechallythe #USA has no excuse for that!] or the lack of cheaper, more convenient [in spite of the #SecurityTheater] of efficient options.

BTW: #Ships are even worse polluters both per passenger kilometer and efficiency!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAWYBLymYw&t=230s

A nifty cutaway animation of an 18th century warship:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nr1AgIfajI

#nautical #naval #ships

fighter · force · ships · taiwan
https://papercliff.github.io/redirect/?q=fighter+force+ships+taiwan&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:8/9/2023,cd_max:8/11/2023
#news #taiwan #ships

Since the embargo, so-called ghost tankers have been clandestinely transporting Russian oil.

A "shadow fleet" specialised in the legal but risky transport to Asia has emerged, with owners hidden behind shell companies and traders based in Dubai.

The crude oil is sometimes re-exported to Europe after refining.

The vessels are older, less safe and not covered by insurance, despite the risk of accidents.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/08/06/russia-s-ghost-fleet-moscow-s-new-oil-routes_6082264_4.html

#Russia #WarInUkraine #Oil #Tankers #Ships #Sanctions #Embargo