Another trip around the sun and Greg has asked me once again to talk about “great ships.”As an older engineer I find it much more difficult to judge greatness in ships. It
Another trip around the sun and Greg has asked me once again to talk about “great ships.”
As an older engineer I find it much more difficult to judge greatness in ships. It was much easier when I was young.
When I was quite young and living near the Dutch rivers, I thought the greatest ships were Rhine barges with cars on them. I am talking about the inland cargo vessels that ran up and down the Rhine and through the rest of the European canal and river systems. As a six-year-old, I found the the Rhine barges with cars were so much cooler than Rhine barges without cars. And then my mother told me that often those barges were operated by a husband and wife and often the children were aboard too.
Just the thought of living on a boat like that with your parents and siblings, arriving at a Rhine port, taking the car off the deck, drive around town, put it back on the barge again and go to the next port. It seemed so exciting and weirdly powerful.
That to me seemed like the best way to live.
Always moving around on a boat and never
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