Boating memories

[Bouba]

Glimpses of the sea

 

[Bouba]

Ok…now it’s time for new memories….today in St Tropez

 

[Bouba]

 

[Bouba]

I admire you guys who can command drone technology to take aerial photos…. I have to go up the highest hill and then climb the tallest tree …

 

[vas]

this is what I like about boating here, stern to the rocks and sunset from the bow.

 

[Alicatt]

Little and large in Friesland

Taking the waterbus tour in Giethoorn

 

[BruceK]

Great thread, better pics, of course when I get back I'll have to throw in a few of the Welsh Med just so you can see it all again. In colour this time

 

[benjenbav]

Maybe you prefer a lake

Lac de Saint Croix? Distinctive colour.

 

[Bouba]

Lac de Saint Croix? Distinctive colour.

One of my favorite places...love the lavender fields

 

[Bouba]

 

[Alicatt]

I took the family on our honeymoon to an area like that near Bergerac 9 years ago, we had a fantastic time there, and a very indulgent trip to St. Emilion Hic!

 

[Thalassa76]

Great run from Hamble to Weymouth May '23

 

[Bouba]

Nice boat

 

[Bouba]

At anchor.....somewhere I’m on the hook in that boat soup...

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Some time in the 1970s at Kip Marina in Scotland when my parents loaded the boat up for our summer holidays ... I was 8 or 9 at the time this photo was taken, having graduated from a rotting optimist to our first "big boat" when I was 6.

3 weeks on a 20ft boat, 2 Adults and 3 kids. No fridge, no showers, no running hot water, engine was a Johnson 6hp in an engine well.

The condensation would drip off the forecabin roof onto our sleeping bags in the mornings. I still remember the smell of raw fiberglass, damp sea air, and the sulphur from the matches my mum used to light the gas stove for a morning cup of tea.

Navigation was paper charts and a compass, we had an echo sounder and a Seafarer Seafix RDF - weather was listening to the shipping forecast twice a day and filling out the shipping forecast map, we were in Malin as I recall.

We usually made it up to Tobermory and back - happy days! .... and how things have changed.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Fast Forward 40 years and this is my first "big boat" in the Adriatic where I take my 3 kids sailing.

Autopilot, GPS chart plotter, solar energy, fridge, 3 double cabins, running hot water, shower, internet weather forecasts ... it's more about leisure these days than adventure I suppose - but the world has changed, there are processions of people scaling Everest, and flotillas of boats crossing the oceans.

 

[Bouba]

Fast Forward 40 years and this is my first "big boat" in the Adriatic where I take my 3 kids sailing.

Autopilot, GPS chart plotter, solar energy, fridge, 3 double cabins, running hot water, shower, internet weather forecasts ... it's more about leisure these days than adventure I suppose - but the world has changed, there are processions of people scaling Everest, and flotillas of boats crossing the oceans.

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I’m sure that in the future, your kids memories of those great times afloat will be similar to yours when you were young

 

[vas]

Fast Forward 40 years and this is my first "big boat" in the Adriatic where I take my 3 kids sailing.

Autopilot, GPS chart plotter, solar energy, fridge, 3 double cabins, running hot water, shower, internet weather forecasts ... it's more about leisure these days than adventure I suppose - but the world has changed, there are processions of people scaling Everest, and flotillas of boats crossing the oceans.

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nah, biggest progress is drones tbh [nice pic!]

 

[Bouba]

nah, biggest progress is drones tbh

I was looking at Baggywrinkle’s aerial shot and thinking the same thing

 

[Canopy Locked]

It's not the med exactly, but a boating memory from around 10 years ago. Was very happy to see the big orange and blue boat appearing out of the gloom!

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