eye candy
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My in-laws had an old picture on my mother in-law leaning against the railing of the Ticonderoga Steamboat as they rode her across lake Champaign when the Ticonderoga ran ferry runs from Vermont to New York. My in-laws were engaged to be married back then.
45 years later, we went with them to the Shelburne Museum; my father in-law grew up in Shelburne. There was the Ticontaroga, sitting in the middle of their museum campus.
So, we had to tour her and Linda talked her mother into finding the same spot on the railing and posing for the same shot.
I'm sorry I don't have the pictures to post, but it was very sweet. They both reminisced about those days and that trip. My father in-law remembered watching her stream past as he fished from the rocks when he was a kid.
-Will (Dragonfly)
45 years later, we went with them to the Shelburne Museum; my father in-law grew up in Shelburne. There was the Ticontaroga, sitting in the middle of their museum campus.
I'm sorry I don't have the pictures to post, but it was very sweet. They both reminisced about those days and that trip. My father in-law remembered watching her stream past as he fished from the rocks when he was a kid.
-Will (Dragonfly)
Couldn't resist going off topic when I came across these in my image library. This eye candy s truly a "gold plater" custom 1939 Roll-Royce Phantom III Labourdette Vutotal Cabriolet highly customized for a flamboyant New York furrier. Shown in 2012 at the Greenwich Concours D'Elegance auto show.
How about this Horch 853 that was displayed next to the Rolls? Note the Audi emblem (before it was Audi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horch_853_Voll_&_Ruhrbeck_Sport_Cabriolet
"the widow maker" 1974 930 turbo, had it for six weeks, i could not drive it slow. only one in town, they were looking for me
From Wikipedia - "As the officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, Lightoller strictly enforced the "women and children first" protocol, not allowing any male passengers to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen.[2][3] Lightoller stayed until the last, was sucked against a grate and held under water, but then was blown from the grate by a rush of warm air as a boiler exploded. He found refuge on an upturned collapsible boat with 30 others, showing his fellow survivors how to shift their weight to avoid being swamped, until their rescue at dawn.
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Later, in retirement, he further distinguished himself in World War II, by providing and sailing as a volunteer on one of the "little ships" that played a part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Rather than allow his motoryacht to be requisitioned by the Admiralty, he sailed the vessel to Dunkirk personally and repatriated 127 British servicemen.[8]"
The movie Dunkirk features a plot line inspired by the latter occurrence.
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Former R.N. Admirals Barge. He also commanded a R.N. destroyer in W.W.1 sank a U-boat. Went to sea at 14 on tall ships. When you read the whole story you wonder how he crammed so much into one lifetime!
-Will (Dragonfly)
Seems to be so many more pretty East Coast boats than we have out west. Too modern/new out here I guess.