** BOAT JOURNEYS MADE **



This is the 10 March 2005 edition of this page.

I have travelled many places in the past 55 years, quite a lot by boats and ships, - and this shows the vessels used, the dates and destinations.


YEAR      BOAT           WEIGHT  Max Passgrs  From      To

1950ish   Mackerel                 4         MevagisseyMevagissey
1955ish   MacBraynes                         Oban      Oban
Sixties   Ferry&SRN6-Hovercraft              Portsmouth Ryde 

SRN-6 Hovercraft.

Sixties   Ferry&SRN6-Hovercraft              Ryde      Portsmouth
Sixties   Ferry                              Southampton Cowes
Sixties   Ferry                              Cowes    Southampton
1966     Bay Cruise			    'Frisco     Its Bay
Sep 1967  Pembroke Ferry                     Milford Haven    Pembroke
1969      Lake Boat                          Trossachs Trossachs
1971      IslandsBoat                        Brittany  Brittany
1972      SRN4 Hovercraft                    France    UK

SRN-4 Hovercraft.

1972-99   ChannelFerry                       UK        France
1976      Private                            Bowness   Bowness
1976      Lake Boat                          Keswick   Keswick
1977      Ferry                              Seattle   OlympicPen
1978      Skye Boat                          Scotland  Skye
1993      Lofoten        2,621tons  410       Bergen    Bergen

The LOFOTEN!

1995      RUSS   (Wt??)  425'*55'  332       Moscow  StPetersburg

The Russ and a 'clone'.

1996      NorthSeaBoat                       Harwich   Gothenburg
1996      NorthSeaBoat                       Gothenburg Harwich
1996      Felucca		    	 River Nile at Aswan

Next Felucca to our one!

1996      M/S NILE EMERALD      River Nile (Aswan down to Luxor)
1997      MS Starcruise      On Sognefjord, Norway

'Starcruise' High-Speed Catamaran.

1998      SAGA ROSE      24,474tons 590       Dover     Dover

Saga Rose.


Saga Rose 2




1999      Princesa Marissa                   Limassol  Haifa
          Princesa Marissa                   Haifa     Limassol
2000	St-Clair	4231  tons  600	Aberdeen	Lerwick

MV.St Clair.


 The MV St Clair 

2000	St Sunniva	4211 tons 407	Lerwick	   Stromness
	St Sunniva	(327ft * 61ft)	Stromness	Aberdeen

MV.St Sunniva.


 The MV St Sunniva 

2000	      Glacier-calving view-boat            Barfjord           Jokulfjord
                  Hurtigrute                       Hammerfest        Honningsvag
                  Lake Inari Trip                  Inari                Inari
                  Vesteralen (Hurtigrute)           Harstad            Stokmarknes

The M/S Vesteralen waits for us!

                  Ferry                             Melba           Lofoten Islands
                  Trollfjord Trip                  Svolvaer       Trollfjord (and back!)
                  Ferry                             Lofotens        Melba
                  Ferry (Boughaz)                   Algeciras        Tangier
                  Ferry (Boughaz)                   Tangier         Algeciras

MV. Boughaz general view before boarding.


MV. Boughaz  whilst on-board.

2001	Ferry (IOW)                         Portsmouth          Ryde
	Ferry (IOW)                         Ryde                 Portsmouth
	Ferry(CalMac)	                 Uig(Skye)      Tarbert(Harris)
	Ferry(CalMac)                    Tarbert           Uig
	Ferry(CalMac)                     Oban            Mull (East)
	Small Boat	               Mull(West)            Staffa
	Small Boat	               Staffa	              Iona
	Small Boat	                Iona                Mull(West)
	Ferry(CalMac)	                Mull(East)            Oban
	Small Boat	               Puno                Uros Islands (Titicaca!)
	Small Boat	             Uros Islands           Puno
	Super SeaCat	           Liverpool	          Douglas (IOM)
	Super SeaCat	           Douglas(IOM )          Liverpool
        Princess Jeannie(REGAL China)   Wuhan  (on YANGTZE)   Chongqing
		(this was like a 'clone' of the Russ - see 1995)
	Dragon Boat	      On Chinese Lake

Dragon Boat ready to load!!.

	Daning River Trip	River Daning in CHINA

Daning Boat at our brief stop !!.

	P&O Stena Ferry	           Calais	         Dover
2002	UniverseExplorer	23500T   737pass(Max)       Vancouver	         ALASKA
	UniverseExplorer	ditto    We had less!      Alaska	         Vancouver
          Click for 'UniverseExplorer' photo 
	Tender Boat				Universe Exp	Sitka and back
	Blue & Gold Fleet			Frisco(Pier41)	Alcatraz
	Blue & Gold Fleet			Alcatraz	'Frisco(Pier41)
	NordNorge				Ushuaia		PuntaArenas (via Antarctica)
          Click for 'NordNorge' photo 
	Zodiacs (10)				NordNorge	Various bases (and back)
           Click for ZODIAC-boarding  photo 

I anticipated, earlier, that future editions of this page could contain
hypertext links to some of these boats and makers.
In that way it will be similar to the 'flights' page.

BEAR IN MIND that the UK is no-longer a shipbuilding nation!!

However, I've found that "The Isle of Lewis"  was built by Ferguson
        Shipbuilders Ltd, Port Glasgow in 1995. Her length
        is 101m and breadth is 18.0m. She has a top speed
        of 18 Knots, carries 123 cars and 680 passengers. 

(but I haven't done a successful browse for their web-site!)

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The two CRUISE ships that I took in Russia in 1995 (The m/s RUSS) and in CHINA in 2001
(The " Princess Jeannie") were 'cloned boats' built in West Germany. Only the decorations were different!!

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Instead of those manufacturers, why not the OPERATORS?

For time-tables and possibly ticket purchases,
try Scotland's Caledonian McBrayne's Site
and the Isle of Wight's Red Funnel Services.
and their Wightlink Services.


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