[Leica] harbour dawn

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Gorgeous sunrise and beautiful ship!  It pays to get up early!

Can't wait to see more.

Tina

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:21 AM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote:

> got up at 0400 this morning and headed to the waterfront
> public access to the waterfront or waterline in massachusetts is guaranteed
> on paper
> but your real chances are higher if you show up before the private security
> guards :-)
>
> the tall ships are in town to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of
> 1812.
> they will stay till the Independence Day celebrations on the 4th.
>
> so here are a few shots with my pocket camera of sunrise over the harbour
> today.
>
> 1
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/L1670202+sunrise+over+dewaruci.jpg.html
>
> 2
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/L1670214+sunrise+boston+harbour+1July2012.jpg.html
>
> 3
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/L1670229+boston+harbour+dawn.jpg.html
>
> 4
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/L1670318+dewaruci+sailors.jpg.html
>
> the only tall ship i wanted to see is the Indonesian barquentine, on it's
> round the world tour.
> the sailors were very pleasant to talk to as well.
> am off to bed now :-)
> more photos later!
> bharani
>
> http://kridewaruci.com/
>
> The *KRI Dewaruci* (KRI: *Kapal Perang Republik
> Indonesia<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_Indonesian_Navy>
> *) is a Class A tall ship and the only
> barquentine<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barquentine> owned
> and operated by the Indonesian
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia> Navy. She
> is used as a sail training vessel for naval cadets and is the largest tall
> ship in the Indonesian fleet. The *Dewaruci* also serves as a goodwill
> ambassador for the country of Indonesia to the rest of the world.
>
> Foremast, named as "Bima"; from Pandavas' Bheem character -- 35.3 metres
>
>    1. Flying jib
>    2. Outer jib
>    3. Middle jib
>    4. Inner jib
>    5. Royal
>    6. Topgallant
>    7. Upper topsail
>    8. Lower topsail
>    9. Foresail
>
> Mainmast, named as "Arjuna"; from Pandavas' Arjun character -- 35.9 metres
>
>    1. Main topgallant
>    2. Main topmast staysail
>    3. Main staysail
>    4. Main topsail
>    5. Mainsail
>
> Mizzenmast, named as "Yudhistira"; from Pandavas' Yudhistira -- 32.5 metres
>
>    1. Mizzen topsail
>    2. Mizzen
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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