Then it went down hill on Saturday morning – confusion around the start time for the launch parade – 1/2 the boats thought 10am, now I’m told it did say 9.30 in the classic yacht club newsletter, but……. the % of launches there that were members would have been less than 20%,...
The photos are from an album given to him by his ex (deceased) Omapere (near Opononi, Northland) neighbour – Aubrey Bracey. Aubrey was a farmer / carpenter who built a couple of small boats, Herald being one of them. How lucky were these kids to have a boat of their own at their...
One sort of touristy thing that I have wanted to do since we moved to New Hampshire is take a cruise on the MS Mount Washington around Lake Winnepesaukee. Their website with the schedule and event info ishere. Since I have had to be careful out on friends’s smaller boats with the p...
He first employed the engine in steamboats, which eventually found its way to the United States where Colonel John Stevens began using it for the same purpose.Virginian Railway 2-8-2 #430 (Class MB) works local service in Norfolk, Virginia during December of 1954. H. Reid photo. American...
“sport” the LM002 packed, what with its Countach derived V12 under the hood. For the clinically insane, you could request an even larger, marine derived V12 more commonly found in power boats. This particular example for sale is a later production example with low mileage and looks even...
(directing his first serial alone after co-directing 16 with John English and two with Alan James), after a somewhat leisurely set-up in Episode 1, keeps the actions barreling along like one of the cars, trucks, motorcycles and speedboats that the heroes and villains regularly resort to. ...
The harbour around which the village developed goes back many centuries, and is still a very important fishing port, in 1860 it recorded the second highest number of boats registered in Spain. Many of the artifacts in the museum arrived by sea. Our hosts, Rosá and Jaques from the offices ...
If it did indeed belong to the former president, then the man had good taste in boats, too. Reply Jason Shafer Posted March 5, 2014 at 3:09 PM Harry may have been even more atypical that we realized…from what I read he was a prime reason on why former presidents started receivi...
I was just beginning my affinity for new cars at this time, so these newly-sized luxo boats will always have a special place in my history. The 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (wallpaper): Reply Hardboiled Eggs and Nuts Posted May 18, 2018 at 6:31 AM The B pillar on these Cadil...
When the Matador coupe went on sale in the fall of 1973, it was not only a striking departure for AMC; it defied the contemporary trend toward feverish neo-Classical design, embodied by theLincoln Continental Mark seriesandChevrolet Monte Carlo. In November 1973,Car and Drivercompared it to ...