happy july! happy city of water day!
Happy summer everyone! this blog will be taking July off, back in August. Events abound on the 6th boro! MWA’s City of Water Day is July 24. Portside and many other organizations, along with our working flotilla of schooners, sloops, cruising vessels, ferries and water taxis will be out in force. If you have a happening on the water or waterfront this month, feel free to add it on…
Coastal Tanker Mary A. Whalen, 1938
| Length: | 172ft |
Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary 2 , 2003
| Length: | 1,132 ft (345 m) |
| Beam: | 135 ft (41 m) waterline, 147.5 ft (45.0 m) extreme (bridge wings) |
| Height: | 236.2 ft (72.0 m) keel to funnel |
| Draught: | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Four 21.5 MW Rolls-Royce/Alstom “Mermaid” electric propulsion pods: 2 fixed and 2 azimuthing |
| Speed: | 29.62 knots (54.86 km/h; 34.09 mph)[6] |
| Capacity: | 3,056 passengers |
| Crew: | 1,253 officers and crew |
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Happy July, stay cool!
I was just looking at my pictures of the Queen Mary but the close ups are not good, just the ones I took at a distance in Long Beach – your drawing is better. Have a great time in July and bring back some drawings of what you saw.
July off? What are we going to do without your wit or timely news. Gosh!
RYN: Thanks so very much for your caring comment. I spent years ruining my skin, and I have no idea what prompted me to hang that skin out for the world to see. In an effort to preserve what epidermis I have left, doctor’s have peeled me, have chemicaled me, and have burned me to a crisp. I still look like an advertisement for staying out of the sun so perhaps that’s a secondary motive for putting that up on the web. Personally, I am not brave and confess I was horrified to see that image.
You have a great month off. Don’t hide your face while you are gone. I’ll add lipstick to mine.
hail marys!! greets from the salish sea. http://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/salish-sea-1/
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