Shame about the site, but go and see the gorgeous, steel-hulled, 3-masted Belem from Nantes if you’re down on the Moll de la Fusta in Barcelona harbour. It’s infinitely preferable to all the white cuboids being refitted in dry dock further up. The Belem counts among previous owners the 2nd Duke of Westminster who, while…
Webalizer says that daily averages last month were 1977 individual visits and 7987 page views, which is a record. The top 10 search strings haven’t changed much: unipeak, indonesian porn, abramovich yacht, gitanas, skinheads, pelorus, madrid masters models, pelorus yacht, tranny, troll. Lesson: humans don’t change but their numbers increase.
We just had a typically ill-informed discussion here about how Narcís Monturiol’s second submarine, Ictíneo II, worked. Robert Hughes’ Barcelona says that for surface running, Monturiol decided to save the muscles of his crew and install a six-horsepower steam engine. But you could not run a steam engine underwater: it would use up all the…
He’ll bounce back, says Mosnews in an article on Roman’s Empire: The head of the empire navigates the world in a privately owned plane, and not some Falcon or Gulf Stream, either, but a Boing-737.
In an update, even more Pelorus boato-photos here. This is getting ridiculous, because there’s a rumour going round that the guy may be going to use Le Grand Bleu (354′) as a frigging supply vessel for the Pelorus (377′). The latter is apparently now heading back to Monte Carlo, which will cheer up Shirley Bassey…
He’s got bath in his boat and I’ve got a boat in my bath, so I can’t really see why the world’s media only wants to interview Roman Abramovich. Anyway, here are some more photos (previous post) which I have received of the Pelorus undergoing what look like hull rib repairs, this time in Malta,…
Re the Abramovich boat post: I’ve been contacted now by three British newspapers, one gentleman who sounded suspiciously like a Russian investigator, various salesmen and a couple of nuts. Honest, I don’t know where the boat is, I haven’t got the faintest idea how he paid for it, and it doesn’t interest me in the…
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