Noah's Ark Ipswich

[Dan Tribe]

Has anyone visited?
Any comments?I
We passed it on Holland but didn't know you could go on board.
I understand it's there until end of March

 

[LONG_KEELER]

You can read the reviews on the tripadvisor site :-

Brilliant craftmanship! - Noah's Ark, Ipswich Traveller Reviews - Tripadvisor

Not been myself but had a cracking morning with the granddaughter visiting Ipswich Museum . Even bought some corprolite .

 

[Habebty]

You can read the reviews on the tripadvisor site :-

Brilliant craftmanship! - Noah's Ark, Ipswich Traveller Reviews - Tripadvisor

Not been myself but had a cracking morning with the granddaughter visiting Ipswich Museum . Even bought some corprolite .

You bought some fossilised shit? It always makes me smile when I drive past Coprolite Street, or to put it another way.....Shit Street

 

[LONG_KEELER]

You bought some fossilised shit? It always makes me smile when I drive past Coprolite Street, or to put it another way.....Shit Street

I thought about displaying it on the mantelpiece as a conversation piece but the wife kindly suggested I keep it on the boat.

 

[johnalison]

I smell ararat.

 

[Aquaboy]

heard there maybe some safety issues, not sure if its being allowed to leave at the moment.

 

[Dan Tribe]

heard there maybe some safety issues, not sure if its being allowed to leave at the moment.

So, is it self propelled or does it have a tug?
Apparently it's only a replica, not the real Ark.?

 

[johnalison]

So, is it self propelled or does it have a tug?
Apparently it's only a replica, not the real Ark.?

It wouldn't be. It would have been built in metric instead of cubits, and there are no gopher plantations in the Netherlands anyway.

 

[Dan Tribe]

Well, we went today. Not life changing but well worth a visit. It has a religious theme but it's not rammed down your throat.
Best bit for me was the view across the dock to that new Spirit yacht, ooh!
Some great eat and drinkeries in Ipswich nowadays.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Well, we went today. Not life changing but well worth a visit. It has a religious theme but it's not rammed down your throat.
Best bit for me was the view across the dock to that new Spirit yacht, ooh!
Some great eat and drinkeries in Ipswich nowadays.

Half term granddad duties partially completed .

Well done.

 

[Blue Sunray]

'Unseaworthy' Noah's Ark replica detained in UK - BBC News

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Sounds like the real problem is that in the Netherlands it can somehow not be a ship, and so avoid regulations concerning ships, but in the UK the definition of a ship means that it is a ship, and so must fulfill the requirements for a ship.

I think that it's ingenuous to say "It's not a ship". If something walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck! The thing is well over the length above which it is a ship, it has obviously made at least one international passage through open seas, and it's charging entrance fees. I think the MCA are perfectly correct to insist that it must meet the regulations that apply to other vessels; if they don't, what's to stop other operators from claiming that their vessel isn't defined as a ship by their flag state?

 

[penfold]

Well, we went today. Not life changing but well worth a visit. It has a religious theme but it's not rammed down your throat.
Best bit for me was the view across the dock to that new Spirit yacht, ooh!
Some great eat and drinkeries in Ipswich nowadays.

It's a replica of Noah's Ark; a thing that didn't exist in a series of events which didn't happen. It doesn't get much more religious than that.

 

[johnalison]

I saw it near Rotterdam before it came here. Although it is hideous and of doubtful provenance, I have to soften my view a little because of the witty slogan it used to display in Dutch, but readily translatable as something like; "If you follow Jesus you won't miss the boat".

 

[penfold]

Or as a Glasgow wit put it by graffiti outside a happyclapper; the sign bearing "Jesus Saves" was subtitled "and McCoist scores on the rebound"

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Or as a Glasgow wit put it by graffiti outside a happyclapper; the sign bearing "Jesus Saves" was subtitled "and McCoist scores on the rebound"

I'm a lay minister, but the phrase "Jesus saves" tends to prompt me to go on: "with the Woolwich!".

 

[pvb]

Aad Peters, the Dutchman who owns the thing, apparently doesn't believe that there's a god, but sees the religious theme park as a good way of extracting money from the public. At £16.50 per adult, that's quite some extraction!

 

[Blue Sunray]

Aad Peters, the Dutchman who owns the thing, apparently doesn't believe that there's a god, but sees the religious theme park as a good way of extracting money from the public. At £16.50 per adult, that's quite some extraction!

He'd fit in well as a priest/Imam etc then.

 

[penfold]

The catholic church is quite big on indulgences.

 

[oldgit]

It's a replica of Noah's Ark; a thing that didn't exist in a series of events which didn't happen. It doesn't get much more religious than that.