#narrowboats

[itsstreetlove]

Room for two

Diglis Bottom Lock ~ Worcester

2022

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #worcester to birmingham canal #black and white photography #diglis bottom lock #narrowboats

[hamishsblog]

#psychogeography #riverlea #remnantmagazine #walking #photographers on tumblr #newtopographic #narrowboat #narrowboats #narrowboatlife #towpath #green

[twentyfourstar]

#nature #scenery #countryside #landscape #sky #clouds #Nikon #canal #Chesterfield Canal #Narrowboats

[widebeamandwellingtons]

Some amazing boats at the Piper Barge Show today! Better get saving! 😂 #piperbarge #boatshow #henley - - - - - #canalboat #canal #narrowboat #narrowboatlife #boatlife #widebeamboat #canallife #canalboats #waterways #vivere #canalboatlife #narrowboatliving #barge #narrowboats #boating #inlandwaterways #onthecut #floatinghome #widebeamandwellingtons #canalandrivertrust #liveaboard #widebeam #lifeafloat #photography #canalboating #uk #adventure https://www.instagram.com/p/CiqDUBFDuKR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#piperbarge #boatshow #henley #canalboat #canal #narrowboat #narrowboatlife #boatlife #widebeamboat #canallife #canalboats #waterways #vivere #canalboatlife #narrowboatliving #barge #narrowboats #boating #inlandwaterways #onthecut #floatinghome #widebeamandwellingtons #canalandrivertrust #liveaboard #widebeam #lifeafloat #photography #canalboating #uk #adventure

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

is it just ocean ships youre into or?

...this ask has a slightly threatening aura but like, if you give me a chance to infodump, im going to.

tbh, i wouldnt say im "into ocean ships". i go feral for ocean liners, correct, but like 98% of cruise ships ive come across are fucking awful. plus ro-ro ferries can also go fuck themselves. and im also not really into like battleships apart from a few specific cases, e.g. the hms captain (the last one to be given that name) because boy howdy was that ship terribly designed.

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but like most ship aficionados, im am really into great lake ships. i mean, the great lakes themselves are like so fucking cool and honestly if i had to go to america, id like to see them. because of how unique the geography of the great lakes are (essentially inland seas with waves cresting much closer to one another), you get some really interesting ships coming out of it.

theres the more obvious ships that i find interesting like the fitz (edmund fitzgerald), the daniel j morrell and the bannockburn, but im not gonna retread common ground here; theres plenty of videos on youtube about them.

what i wanna talk about is whaleback ships:

they were dreamt up by captain alexander mcdougall and are a much obscure ship design for the lakes. only 44 were ever between 1887 and 1898.

see at that time, the size of a ship was limited mostly by a ships ability to get through lochs and rivers (and obviously materials + hull design theory) rather than power, which led to the common practice of one self-powering vessel towing several barges. and that became a problem when the seas were rough and the winds were howling. so mcdougall wanted to create a design that could easily be towed, which led to the whaleback design.

the hull of a whaleback is continuously curved, and the bow and stern were nearly identical. things like cabins were in the superstructure above the ship. when fully loaded, the hull would lay low in the water, giving it the eponymous whaleback look. it also looks a bit like a cigar.

while they were easy to tow and saw some success as self-powered vessels themselves, like the unfortunately named christopher colombus which was the only passenger whaleback vessel nicknamed "the queen of the lakes", they were flaws in the design. the curved hull made it harder to create watertight hatches, or hatches that would remain watertight as many warped. the working conditions were often poor as within the hull, its essentially a submarine. they were also quite vulnerable to and in collisions; they laid almost flush with the water so they were kinda hard to see.

i just find them very interesting and the design is actually kinda beautiful to me? idk, its just a bit of shipping history that doesnt get mentioned as much. the only remaining whaleback boat is the ss meteor which is now a museum ship.

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also, as a certified yam-yam (a seemingly insane thing to call myself), i have to talk about canal boats/narrowboats.

see where im from in the uk has more canals than venice and thats a fact any comedian will turn into a joke if they do a show hear. i know theres at least one other semi-popular posts about narrowboats, but if you havent seen it, you might have seen them in peaky blinders because they were used to transport illegal goods amongst other things.

the canals (or cuts as they were also called) where im from were used a lot during britains industrial revolution in terms of transporting goods. and although canal travel declined due to several factors like better roads for cars, increase in rail travel (seriously, you can get a train to anywhere round here) and issues with wages, its still a pretty significant part of our local culture and history.

like in primary school, we were taught how locks work and i remember learning about all of the different kinds of narrowboats. im not gonna get into all of them because this post is long enough as is, but its safe to say, i have a personal attachment to narrowboats.

in the 60s, there was a restoration of canals and narrowboat tourism became popular. you can also live on a canal boat which one of my friends did for a while growing up.

plus we have a lot of very pretty architecture thanks to canals in the staffordshire ring/black country rings (its called the black country due to how much soot would emanate from factories as well as thick coal seam that came from the mines during the victorian era). the staffordshire ring is like a canal of a lazy river, i guess; it loops all the way round the area and surrounding areas.

i particularly enjoy this little area of the dudley canal part of the ring:

this part of our history also left a bunch of tunnels because canals went through things, and theres a lot of these tunnels. pretty sure theres a lot around the country in general? dont quote me on that; i know my local cut history better than the national canal history.

but anyway, you can walk through a lot of these tunnels such as the netherton tunnel:

which i walked, all the way through and back, as a young child with a headlight on that didnt work too well. me dad took me my brother and by the time we were on the homestretch, we had a single flickering headlight left. fun times.

#kai rambles #a lot #lmao #long post #im autistic what do you expect #anon #narrowboats #narrowboat #canal boat #canal boats #canals #great lakes #whaleback boats #ss meteor #shipposting

[theperambulationsofpenelope]

Boat people.

Today has been a significant day in the calendar! The sale of our house is complete and we have moved onboard Penelope while we wait for the purchase of our next home to progress.

One last trip to Bodicote to pick up the last of the items to be squeezed into the MG, Martin constantly asking where it would all go, I took a final photo, in the sunshine.

Then a dash into town to drop the keys off at the Estate Agents and pick up a last few bits of shopping, including a refill of washing up liquid and so breakfast cereal, I will miss Nothing But Footprints but hopefully will find other refill shops on our travels. Back to Penelope to unload and wrap the car up in preparation for out travels and a quick bite to eat, as usual the wind picks up just as we cast off so Martin has to fight the breeze to execute his manoeuvre out of the basin and onto the Oxford canal. We have spent the last five months turning right out of the marina and heading down toward Banbury so it felt strange to turn left and head north.

A glorious afternoon for cruising, up through Broadmoor, Varney and Ellington locks before we met any traffic coming the other way, and the five Claydon locks were quickly navigated, thanks to the amazing V’Lockies who interrupted their efforts to let water down into the lower pounds to let us climb the 30 feet up towards Fenny Compton. The Fenny Compton tunnel, which was completed in 1777, is no longer a tunnel since the removal of the final section of roof in 1869 but the section is always interesting not least because of how narrow it is and this time we met two boats and on each occasion we were at the narrowest parts!

Todays short cruise ended at a mooring just below The Wharf at Fenny Compton, it’s Friday so we celebrated the house sale with Fish & Chips although they were so busy we were relegated to the garden, luckily the sun remained long enough for us to enjoy our meal before retiring to the the boat for an early night!

#LifeAfloat2023 #livingthedream #narrowboat #narrowboats #FennyCompton #FishandChips #nbPenelope

[sortofdan]

Canal Moments 18/100

"The World's Best Shopping Trip"

Taking supplies back to the boat in the Marina at Ellesmere.

#marina #narrowboats #boat life #boating #canal #canal boat

[colgreen31]

#Narrowboats #Calder and Hebble Navigation #Canal #sowerby bridge #calderdale #yorkshire #photographer #photography #Blogger

[pellonautocentre]

A Bit About Narrowboat Batteries A Bit About Narrowboat Batteries So as I sit down to write this post about narrowboat batteries the sun has just started

#canal boats #narrowboats

[holidaylettingsbeechlodge]

Beech Lodge is over here ! @iancarroll33 for the original amazing photo if you look closely what can you see? #comment below. . ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #HolidayLettingsBeechLodge ⚛︎ #Boatlife ⚛︎ #SouthDerbyshire ⚛︎ #Canallife ⚛︎ #Doglovers ⚛︎ #Dogoftheday ⚛︎ #Dogwalk ⚛︎ #Dogwalker ⚛︎ #Dogwalkersofinstagram ⚛︎ #Dogwalking ⚛︎ #Dogwalkinglife ⚛︎ #Dogwalks ⚛︎ #Landscapephotography ⚛︎ #Narrowboat ⚛︎ #Narrowboatlife ⚛︎ #Narrowboatliving ⚛︎ #Narrowboats ⚛︎ #Nature ⚛︎ #Nature_Good ⚛︎ #Naturegram ⚛︎ #Naturelife ⚛︎ #Naturelover ⚛︎ #Naturephoto ⚛︎ #Naturephotograpy ⚛︎ #Naturephotos ⚛︎ #Naturepics ⚛︎ #Natureshooters ⚛︎ #Pets ⚛︎ #Smallspaces ⚛︎ (at Mercia Marina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiLkB9vMAoG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#comment #holidaylettingsbeechlodge #boatlife #southderbyshire #canallife #doglovers #dogoftheday #dogwalk #dogwalker #dogwalkersofinstagram #dogwalking #dogwalkinglife #dogwalks #landscapephotography #narrowboat #narrowboatlife #narrowboatliving #narrowboats #nature #nature_good #naturegram #naturelife #naturelover #naturephoto #naturephotograpy #naturephotos #naturepics #natureshooters #pets #smallspaces

[chamud1964]

#london #canal #waterway #narrowboats #narrowboat #streetphotography #streetlife #cityphotography #cityview #citylife #city #mypov (at Little Venice, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeeATR0tt7K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#london #canal #waterway #narrowboats #narrowboat #streetphotography #streetlife #cityphotography #cityview #citylife #city #mypov

[itsstreetlove]

Alvechurch Marina

Worcester & Birmingham Canal  ~ August 2022

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #black and white photography #alvechurch marina #narrowboats #boatyard

[hamishsblog]

#psychogeography #london #riverlea #remnantmagazine #urbanlandscape #walking #photographers on tumblr #nowherediary #newtopographic #urbanlandscapes #towpath #london river #narrowboats

[captnbas]

lessons from lide

#lide: Anglo-Saxon for March #journal comic #visual journal #artists on tumblr #comic #comic artist #digital illustration #basil draws #original art #narrowboat

[widebeamandwellingtons]

The obligatory toasty fire shot 🔥nothing quite like it 😁 #toasty #logburner #boatlife - - - - - #canalboat #canal #narrowboat #narrowboatlife #boatlife #widebeamboat #canallife #canalboats #waterways #vivere #canalboatlife #narrowboatliving #barge #narrowboats #boating #inlandwaterways #onthecut #floatinghome https://www.instagram.com/p/ClG2UoaD399/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#toasty #logburner #boatlife #canalboat #canal #narrowboat #narrowboatlife #widebeamboat #canallife #canalboats #waterways #vivere #canalboatlife #narrowboatliving #barge #narrowboats #boating #inlandwaterways #onthecut #floatinghome

[vox-anglosphere]

Some Britons live on these narrowboats all year..

#narrowboat #canal boat #waterway #winter scene #landscape #English countryside #rural britain #photography #idyllic #UK #English canals #hoarfrost #natural beauty #riverside #peaceful