Maritime Museum
Sep. 27th, 2004 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperWent Maritime Museum. Basically, it's about small boats, and in places, more specifically, small boats in Cornwall and Falmouth. Falmouth being one of the major stop-offs on the route for the Packet ships (news, passengers in small amounts, sugar, rum, goods, etc - yes, a lot of the boats that Caribbean and Atlantic location-pirates attacked. So there's a decent plot point for all you PoTC writers.), refuelling for any major ones due to it being one of the western-most points as well as the one with the deepest harbour and ship-repairing and building resources.
Not usually my cup of tea, and the big hall with all the examples of boats across the world had me going 'meh' when looking at the modern ones, though things like Dragon Boats and strange Vietnamese ones were cool. I still can't believe how big the Eton ten-man rowing boat is.
On the other hand, lots of history, cool multimedia toys that showed you how to find your way using depth measurement through a harbour and how the weather pressure systems worked, things about oyster fishers and the different methods of building small boats. Plus the look-out tower that went from three floors up to look over the whole of Falmouth Harbour and across the bay to right down to low tide point. It was high tide when I went, so the water was right up to the top of the windows, and you were looking out into the murky green water and at the occasional small fishes and a boat that was sunk and no-one retrieved it when it *was* low tide, a couple of years ago, judging by the crusting and seaweed on it. Nice couple of hours.
In other news, got the first lines of a Gosford Park fic out, but I've no idea when or how I'll actually get to the porn in this segment. maybe write little conversations and snippets like the film did. :pokes fic: We need Ivor Novello/Parks fic. Because it would just be too pretty to *not* exist.
Not usually my cup of tea, and the big hall with all the examples of boats across the world had me going 'meh' when looking at the modern ones, though things like Dragon Boats and strange Vietnamese ones were cool. I still can't believe how big the Eton ten-man rowing boat is.
On the other hand, lots of history, cool multimedia toys that showed you how to find your way using depth measurement through a harbour and how the weather pressure systems worked, things about oyster fishers and the different methods of building small boats. Plus the look-out tower that went from three floors up to look over the whole of Falmouth Harbour and across the bay to right down to low tide point. It was high tide when I went, so the water was right up to the top of the windows, and you were looking out into the murky green water and at the occasional small fishes and a boat that was sunk and no-one retrieved it when it *was* low tide, a couple of years ago, judging by the crusting and seaweed on it. Nice couple of hours.
In other news, got the first lines of a Gosford Park fic out, but I've no idea when or how I'll actually get to the porn in this segment. maybe write little conversations and snippets like the film did. :pokes fic: We need Ivor Novello/Parks fic. Because it would just be too pretty to *not* exist.
