Italy - Venice - Ferryboat: the "Holzklasse" aka "last class" :)

LuciaM, on June 30, said:

Did you chase away the passengers first? ;)

L.

®mene, on July 1, said:

...magic hands and Photoshop?...

LOL - no way - much more simple: I was the last one who was on board after all the passengers left the ship. I did not expect a room that size at that place and loved the symetric view.

BTW - i just corrected the position of that ferry boat.

michael :)

Tony Reid, on July 1, said:

Down in the cheap seats, Mene?

Cheers, Tony in New Zealand

®mene, on July 2, said:

That ones are warmed ones in winter... and dry ones on stormy weather :)

That is worth a little extra money. Or do you like that ones???

:)) michael

Cinza, on July 5, said:

They may be warm and dry but one may as well be in a closet. Please don't tell me this is the new "bus" on the regular city runs.

I used to absolutely hate some of our air conditioned, sealed ships where a sight of sea or sky involved a special trip to an open deck. I actually missed the old ships with no A/C where an open port could involve a bit of spray on the bunk and a hot night in the tropics was relieved only by an air scoop in the port and a fan. I felt like some sort of fungus in those sealed up cans and would go long routes to pass on deck rather than short ones in fluorescent light.

®mene, on July 11, said:

Please don't tell me this is the new "bus" on the regular city runs.

Do not panic! That is a regular ferry boat - but we had not to use that places. Yo can see the pics i took whilst on our ride. Although i was wandering throughout the whole ship ;)

A nice of mine started a qualification as a ships engineer - combined with a following college time. She also told us that on the sails down to Argentina or Brazil she stood on the bridge... fully climatized. Even while heavy weather and strom there was nothing to feel except the rolling ship.

Btw: she broke up that qualification after some courses and maybe 10 sails ... she now studies mathematics at Kaiserslautern near where we live... LOL

Cinza, on July 12, said:

Ah! I can sleep again without visions of the water bus fleet going the same way cruise "ships" (Landlubber hotels turned on their sides and unlike real ships!) have gone! (Actually I checked the Actv web page and knew from your photos the old type was still on the canals.)

Some of my later ships were fully climate controlled yet still had easy access to open decks and some great viewing areas. One of my old favorites of the air scoop and sometimes spray wet bunk was rebuilt and a joy. I sat comfortably watching a Bering Sea blizzard in a special control area for our work, just below the bridge, that was heavy glass from waist high to overhead the full forward half of the area. I did hate some of the old conversions where natural light never intruded and fresh air took a special effort to obtain.