Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Other Hobbies and Interests => Topic started by: sealink123 on December 14, 2009, 04:38:16 pm
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Boat or plane what do you prefer and why
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Boats, planes sink more than boats.
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Planes everytime for me, with one exception. Liverpool Douglas, short enough journey.
They don't do overland boats in China, and there is no river route twixt the cities I want to fly too.
Also the passage from Shanghai to Blighty would be a problem. I don't think anyone does tickets anymore.
But when it comes to modelling. Sail everytime.
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So basically the answer is DEPENDS
Tiger
London - Shanghai is that the 'Slow Boat to China'?
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Well it wouldn't be fast ok2
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personal travel, depends which way i am going. if going to USA, fly, hoewver if i went to europe I would take the boat, i can put my car on a boat, and dont fancy the idea of going down a 25 mile drain pipe in a train. dont mind train travel but dont like the idea of being in a train in an oersized drain UNDER all that water
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i prefer to hover best of both worlds http://www.flickr.com/photos/19759955@N07/3771813648/in/set-72157621758039461/
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great vid
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i prefer to hover best of both worlds http://www.flickr.com/photos/19759955@N07/3771813648/in/set-72157621758039461/
I agree thats a good video never been on a hover craft myself
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thanks for comments its defenatly worh doing at least once in your life nothing moves like a hovercraft if you lives near the soyth coast Hovertravell still operate there hovercraft from southsea on the mainland the Ryde on the IOW see http://www.hovertravel.co.uk/
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If I could afford the time - boat everytime, part of the trip, no jet lag, no DVT's, no rush - just chilling out, Bliss.
When I was younger and lived in the far east, we used to fly 'home' to England so my father could do the family bit and then sail from Southampton to Hong Kong - holidays were great then, at least three months every other year and circumnavigating the globe each time - we never went back the way we flew!
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grasshopper. back in the days of the Lockheed Constellation, Boeing 314, and Boeing 377, there was no cattletruck class, you actually had some leg room.
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Boat everytime!! Planes are faster, but the amount of time that you need before the Flight at Airports nullifies much of the saving. Also the Airport, Harbour. Where is it compared with where you want to go!? Stansted is a long way from Kent, whereas Dover is just right. The ferry crossing is time to have a snack, relax, do some shopping, look out of the Window and watch the White Cliffs approach, a magic moment for us both. We don't use the Rat Hole, as it is far too expensive (Approx 4 times the equivalent Ferry price) and so unreliable. and it is not that much faster, you might save 25 minutes or so, but against that you have to sit in your car as the Train rattles its way under the Channel. No Toilets, no chance if it breaksdown. Which it does, regualrily!!No. Ferries for us please, and we have been crossing the Channel for more than 35 years, and have gone every way there is or was, including the Hovercraft, now that was an experience!! Faster crossing ever, 25 minutes, like a monster Roller Coaster.