Parade of Sail
Jun. 27th, 2015 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwIf the power could manage to not go out tonight, that would be LOVELY. Sheesh. It's like the universe doesn't want me to finish anything I'm sewing...
Because I hardly got anything sewn yesterday, as mom and I decided to go see the Tall Ships sail into port, and that took all afternoon! I had the brilliant idea to go up on the walkway across the Ben Franklin bridge (as the parade started at the Walt Whitman bridge, a few miles downstream, and ended at the Ben Franklin), so many of the ships sailed directly underneath of us. I ended up with a slightly sunburnt nose, but worth it...SO cool! Two and a half hours well spent. I pat myself on the back for thinking of going up on the bridge...even if it meant walking a mile out and a mile back! (It's a long bridge...)
YAY SHIPS!
The Picton Castle was the only big ship with all the sails unfurled; I don't know why, I'm sure there were Nautical Reasons, but it made it look the most impressive by far!
El Galeon is the late 16thc ship, and it made me start humming that song from Disney's Pocahontas...which was then in my head all day.
"For glory, God and gold, and the Virginia Compaaanyyyyyy!"
Oil in the river. Yum. And it's a lot cleaner than it used to be, believe it or not...
Pride of Baltimore II, one of the War of 1812 repro ships.
The Coast Guard Ship, Barque Eagle.
And the ship I was almost late to work because I wanted to wait for it...l'Hermione! (Also, The Duck. Which was listing drunkenly the whole way up, and moving very slowly.)
Lots of firing, too...the Hermione and the USS New Jersey kept booming back and forth!
And mom and I had almost as much amusement from the dumb people in private speedboats and the like, who kept thinking they were special enough to drive in amongst the ships, and who kept getting yelled and honked at by the police boats. Nope, nope, nice try, go away.
Weather looks crappy for tomorrow, so I'm very glad we planned for Sunday instead! No refunds or exchanges for those day sails, so if you can't go out, you're out of luck.
Because I hardly got anything sewn yesterday, as mom and I decided to go see the Tall Ships sail into port, and that took all afternoon! I had the brilliant idea to go up on the walkway across the Ben Franklin bridge (as the parade started at the Walt Whitman bridge, a few miles downstream, and ended at the Ben Franklin), so many of the ships sailed directly underneath of us. I ended up with a slightly sunburnt nose, but worth it...SO cool! Two and a half hours well spent. I pat myself on the back for thinking of going up on the bridge...even if it meant walking a mile out and a mile back! (It's a long bridge...)
YAY SHIPS!
The Picton Castle was the only big ship with all the sails unfurled; I don't know why, I'm sure there were Nautical Reasons, but it made it look the most impressive by far!
El Galeon is the late 16thc ship, and it made me start humming that song from Disney's Pocahontas...which was then in my head all day.
"For glory, God and gold, and the Virginia Compaaanyyyyyy!"
Oil in the river. Yum. And it's a lot cleaner than it used to be, believe it or not...
Pride of Baltimore II, one of the War of 1812 repro ships.
The Coast Guard Ship, Barque Eagle.
And the ship I was almost late to work because I wanted to wait for it...l'Hermione! (Also, The Duck. Which was listing drunkenly the whole way up, and moving very slowly.)
Lots of firing, too...the Hermione and the USS New Jersey kept booming back and forth!
And mom and I had almost as much amusement from the dumb people in private speedboats and the like, who kept thinking they were special enough to drive in amongst the ships, and who kept getting yelled and honked at by the police boats. Nope, nope, nice try, go away.
Weather looks crappy for tomorrow, so I'm very glad we planned for Sunday instead! No refunds or exchanges for those day sails, so if you can't go out, you're out of luck.
