Saturday 27 July 2013

BALMORAL UNDERWAY IN 2013! * * UPDATED * *

Underway, but she didn't travel very far.  Geoff Hale caught her on film moving from her berth on Princes Wharf to a vacant berth further down the dock - the move necessary as her usual berth was required for the Bristol Harbour Festival taking place 26th - 28th July.

The short film footage can be seen by clicking the following link: http://youtu.be/K_FG9Xja9ls.  The sailing ship that appears in the film, is the IRENE, she was the last sailing vessel trading on the Bristol Channel - right up until 1960.  The story of Irene (mainly from 1960 to the present) can be found HERE.

UPDATE: if you want to watch the return trip made on Tuesday 30th July, follow this link: http://youtu.be/Th9fgc-tbgs

KINGSWEAR CASTLE - DARTMOUTH TO TOTNES 19th July 2013

Pete Devrell travelled to Dartmouth recently and sailed aboard KC for a trip along the River Dart to Totnes. Pete shot video footage of the trip that can be seen by clicking http://youtu.be/m-0oqoD4na0

Some stills from the video appear below.

Pete visited Switzerland a few weeks ago and shot video of several paddle steamers, footage can be seen on his devsteam YouTube Channel.

Thanks Pete.


All aboard for a cruise to Totnes.

A beautiful day for a trip on the river.

' could be on the African Queen!

Hulk of the Kingswear Castle (1)  Her engines were fitted into the present KC when built.


A clean and tidy boiler room - hot in this weather.

Arriving at Totnes



Friday 26 July 2013

WAVERLEY - CLEVEDON TO MINEHEAD JUNE 19th 2013

Geoff Hale, editor of clevedonnews (a local newsreel of events in and around Clevedon) has kindly sent in a link to video he shot of Waverleys sailing from Clevedon to Minehead.  http://youtu.be/Lv1C0mvSOfI

He picked probably the best day of Waverleys Bristol Channel season, to sail - the sun came out and so did the passengers, around 400 from Clevedon/Penarth to Minehead where a good crowd of about 150 boarded for the 1 hour cruise to Porlock Bay.

Thanks Geoff.

A few photos that I took on that sunny day appear below.

Peter Havard

Alongside at Minehead

Setting off for the cruise to Porlock Bay

Backing out at speed


Wednesday 24 July 2013

OFFICIAL BALMORAL WEB SITE

An official web site www.mvbalmoral.org.uk has been launched, with full details on how to make donations to the fund to get Balmoral sailing again in 2014 and beyond.

There is a lot more information on the site about plans for the future.  And if you want to be kept informed, you can sign up for the MV Balmoral Newsletter.