Saturday 14 July 2007

MORE STEAM MACPHAIL.......VITAL SPARK OF PARAHANDY FAME.


VIC 32 passing POTC. Later on Fyne Spirit (Ex. RNAS Cockchafer, A cockshaker more like,) went plowing upriver on full throttle and nearly threw us on to the shore, we had 26 passengers on board. I expressed my disappointment to him on channel 10, as this is the Festival channel, he apologised, not good enough mate, what you did was dangerous, stupid and ignorant. There are some morons driving boats. That is what this BLOG is for, I will sound of, and if someone has an issue they can leave a comment, or get me on channel 12. Or come on board and talk. We had someone from Festival control moaning that we went past the Zap Cats to fast, even although we were doing only 1000 revs. If we had been going any slower we would have stopped. There is another character who rings from the Tall Ship making spurious complaints about us going to fast past the berth and basically most of it is down to vindictive jealousy. He has even gone as far as accusing us of damaging a boat but has failed to provide the evidence. Wee wifies. The Gilmours have set this Waterbus business up on sheer guts and determination, with very little outside help, and in doing so has attracted petty sniping from some quarters which is down to pure envy.

Pictured bellow is the Wee Spark. You need a real sense of humour to be seen in that, must go and have a look at it tomorrow, as it is the first of my four days of. Will give Fyne Spirit my regards. :o)

Pure dead brillaint, so glad I saw this.
VIC32 and Vital Spark passing Braehead and Yarrows, magic.

Wednesday 11 July 2007

Build up to river festival.


The Fair at Braehead, this whirlymagigthingy broke with two lassies stuck on it and these firemen saved them, exciting stuff. Firemen, what are they like, anything for a free ride!
Tall ship, Finneston Crane.

Monday 2 July 2007

Some more river shots.

HMS Diamond, Type 45 frigate being born at BAE,Fairfields. Park Lane apartments opposite Fairfields.

Barclay Curles crane. Pex loading at the Diesel Warf, no steel industry left in Scotland so all our scrap goes to China, thanks Maggie and Black Bob. The Union Dividend!
HMS Diamond at Fairfields. Apparently this is a Union Dividend. No word about the new Carriers, which are rumoured to have gone to a French yard.

River shots today.

St. Mungo cleaning the debris from the river, thanks guys.
Bells Bridge opening for POTC.

Partick Pier getting a make over, site of new transport museum.