{"id":897,"date":"2010-03-03T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:14:41","slug":"tall-ships-fibres-and-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Tall Ships – Fibres and Textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband and I took ourselves down to the Port of Montevideo one morning this week to take advantage of the fabulous opportunity to go with other members of the public to board and wander wound some of the Tall Ships currently in port.\u00a0 It was a sunny morning of a working day\u00a0and so\u00a0not too crowded at that time, and a steady breeze blew preventing us getting hotter than we might have – despite hats.\u00a0 We both took loaded cameras – as we see things from different perspectives – and this shows in the amalgamated collection of photos we downloaded and put together on a web album for all to enjoy – Tall Ships Montevideo 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

These boats are training ships in the various navies of the countries from which they come.\u00a0 There wasn’t one from Australia, and a couple that were scheduled did not come after all – but there were plenty of these stately vessels to clamber about on and marvel over.\u00a0 The outstanding one imho was the Chilean, “Esmeralda” just so beautiful, with all its brass gleaming, paint clean and fresh, things put away – ‘stowed’ I guess, just so, woodwork clean and well sealed etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Marvellous.\u00a0 But on the Spanish one, although there were plenty of sailors around to\u00a0 control our wanderings and answer questions or bombard us with information, I, who am not a noted housekeeper, found the state of brass, woodwork and paint less impressive – sub in fact….but they had one of the largest flags.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The best kept and most interesting ones were those that had people working while we wandered around<\/em><\/span>, giving the impression this is a continual process, that it all doesn’t just\u00a0stop because\u00a0the ship is in port.\u00a0Anyway,\u00a0I found it thrilling to be in\u00a0an environment where there was textile and fibre everywhere <\/em><\/span>– from massively thick ropes\u00a0to fine cord, knotted rope ladders, lots of knotted stuff forming safety nets, ladders, mats and protective bollards; and canvas by the massive yard, sewn to other huge pieces and furled, semi-furled or unfurled – in other words, fabric on a large scale is how I saw it!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And so I hope you enjoy these pics and pick up some of the excitement and interest of our visit to the Tall Ships.\u00a0\u00a0 As we marvelled and enjoyed it all, we thought of several good friends who are sailors … can I just say “Wish you were here”?<\/p>\n

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My husband and I took ourselves down to the Port of Montevideo one morning this week to take advantage of the fabulous opportunity to go with other members of the public to board and wander wound some of the Tall Ships currently in port.\u00a0 It was a sunny morning of a working day\u00a0and so\u00a0not too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-et","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}