Fortunate – IMO 9778002

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FRØYFJORD

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Check out the website of Frøy Gruppen for more peculiar looking vessels (click on BÅTER on the top-right).

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Kalang

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Thanks to Leon G for the tip.

ONE Columba – IMO 9806055

WOW…That’s PINK!

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UMBUL MAS – IMO 9672387

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Many thanks to Oriane H. for the tip!

ZHI XIAN ZHI XING – IMO 9830769

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A comment via email

Reader Talbot C send me this via the email:

“No matter what a ship looks like, the best view of a ship is that seen in the rear view mirror of the taxi as you’re leaving the ship at the end of a voyage!”

And as a seafarer I definitely do agree, it’s always good to go home after spending time away from family and friends and in some cases comfort & wifi, some of the ships I sailed on were not even worth looking back at, just glad to be away from them!

Ugly looking Piraty tourboats & restaurants

Reader Elisesse made a very thorough comment on my post about Japanese Sightseeing Boats from about 10 years back and this comment was so filled with some really funky looking contraptions that I decided it deserved some more attention: please read, watch & follow the links below.

Quote:

Some funny looking another galeon poseur:

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But have you seen Turkish “pirate galeons”?  http://www.barbossayacht.com/ especially that Barbossa Side thing:

Picture via http://www.barbossayacht.com

… Sure they are visually attractive & visitors have a great time on board, but designs of each ship is just unbearably stupid & freaky. And take a very close look at rigging – an overwhelming amount of stuff done with all seriousness just for the sake of look. This one’s rigging makes feel that it was designed by someone who really had no clue in it. “A pirate tall-ship sorta… who cares? It looks as one, so?”

To have a better understanding – look for example at Poland’s “galeon” tourboats:

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Similar fake tall ships but done with all seriousness to replicate classic galeons with all their decorations.
Slightly cartoonish but still:

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And down to stupidity but not like in Japan or Turkey:

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Picture by Jan Roeske via http://www.shipspotting.com

Some “pirate galeons” from US – these are a series of same design, simplistic shapes of hull & decorations, kinda cute/elegant actually!

Silly cute!

EH?

And one more:

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Unquote

Thanks Elisesse. You struck some UglyShips gold there!
You do have to wonder what some of these designers were thinking..or smoking.

 

PASCOLI 96 – IMO 7010121

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VOS SUPPORTER – IMO 8207458

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GALAXY (of Happiness?)

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See also here.

Ex-Commander

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Click on the picture to be swooshed to the original article on Tugster.

Silver Star

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Picture by Steven White via http://www.marinetraffic.com

Seabubbles

Picture via the interwebs

 

Picture via the interwebs

#clever #friendly #couldlookbetter #friendlyface #interesting #innovative

 

Academik Lomonosov

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#uglyinsomanyways