ZHI XIAN ZHI XING – IMO 9830769

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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.

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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:

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… 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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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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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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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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Academik Lomonosov

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#uglyinsomanyways

 

TRANSPORTER – IMO 8701387

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A2V-25-CB Clémentine

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Some moving images (AKA video):

And it’s smaller sister:

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Although the vessels looks will divide opinion I am very impressed by the technology and the advanced science that has gone into the design & building of this vessel: read more HERE.

Many thanks to Berber M. for passing on the tip for this vessel!

INARI III

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BURRARD PACIFIC BREEZE – IMO 9585003

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Already mentioned before in this post about her fleetmates.

Thanks to the Sven S. who gave me the tip via the Official UglyShips.com Facebook page & thus reminded me of this one.

NAUTILUS??

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Unknown Tourboat

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McBarge

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BRAVENESS – IMO 9756200

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Inspired by a mix between Angry birds & a puffin???

NOBLE DISCOVERER – IMO 6608608

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