#Boats

[bastardserf]

Master and commander; my boys having the best time, thriving, toned and tanned, beautiful, mental health

The Terror: not even ketamine can help here

[aneverydaything]

Day 2416, 2 February 2025

City calm. The Regents Canal at Kings Cross, London

[thunderstruck9]

Serge Férat (French, 1881-1958), Voiliers au port [Sailboats in Port]. Oil on canvas, 81 x 59.5 cm.

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[lumintsu]

cliffs

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Natalie and Crew Plying the Tyrrhenian Sea

[grickle14]

Summer fun. 

[brokentripod]

Happy Ever Given anniversary!

I made a garlic bread boat complete with shipping containers and tug boats

[ecoharbor]

📍Portofino, Italy 🇮🇹

[ts-the-blacksmith]

Lego MOC ship

French Frigate "Saint Germain" - PART 1

designed by TS Kang

Instagram - @art_house_colts

You may enjoy the ship’s short video on my YouTube with a beautiful music of ‘violin concerto’ by Jean Marie Leclair.

[lionfloss]

The Nature Ship, Frankfurt, Germany

[livesunique]

"Hermione"

Ronan Follic Photographies

[vestaignis]

Фермеры соб��рают кувшинки в болотистой местности Шапла, недалеко от Барисала, Бангладеш.

Кувшинка -национальный цветок Бангладеша. Они цветут только с августа п�� ноябрь. Розовые кувшинки покрывают канал и водно-болотные угодья площадью 10 000 акров в деревне, которая расположена в 40 милях от города Барисал. Это место в народе называют Шапларбил (канал кувшинок). Вся деревня занимается выращиванием цветка. Рабочие начинают очень рано утром в 6 утра и работают весь день. Каждый цветок тщательно собирается вручную и перевозится в маленькой деревянной лодке фермеров. Выращивание и сбор кувшинок— это общее дело, и фермеры продают цветы на местных рынках. Их покупают не только за их внешний вид, они также ценятся в традиционной аюрведической терапии за их лечебные свойства.

Farmers pick water lilies in the Shapla wetlands near Barisal, Bangladesh.

The water lily is the national flower of Bangladesh. They bloom only from August to November. Pink water lilies cover a canal and a 10,000-acre wetland in a village located 40 miles from the city of Barisal. The place is popularly called Shaplarbil (water lily canal). The entire village is involved in cultivating the flower. Workers start very early in the morning at 6am and work all day. Each flower is carefully picked by hand and transported in the farmers' small wooden boat. Growing and harvesting the water lilies is a communal endeavor, and the farmers sell the flowers in local markets. They are not only bought for their appearance, they are also prized in traditional Ayurvedic therapy for their medicinal properties.

Источник://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e796b544d33457a6333566d54/share_p.html, ://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com / photocontest/detail/farmers-collecting-the-water-lilies/, //www. ecns.cn/hd/2021-08-18/detail-ihaqcyws4450209.shtml#, /balthazar.club/o/22304-priroda-bangladesha.html.

[pintoras]

Antonietta Brandeis (Czech, 1848-1926): Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice (via Bonhams)