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  1. Painting by my late Uncle Arthur Dean of Zulu class fishing boats off the Berwickshire coast, likely close to Eyemouth Harbour painted around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. I have a lot more of his work, mainly of the fishing fleet around that area and seascapes of the coast.
  2. My ancient machine CPU Core i7 965 @3.2GHz Asus PT6se MoBo - on it's last legs and will have to be replaced very soon. 12GB RAM Corsair Harr harrr 2x 1TB WD HDD NVidia GTX760 It was built to be quiet about 6 years ago, it is still handling games ok but with the raid failing on the mobo it is about time for it to be retired.
  3. Nice set of three videos giving a simple introduction to tacking in a square rigged ship the Norwegian Sorlandet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6DZIvMZWzQ
  4. The Ship Inn - now called the Harbour café, famous locally for the fact that Burke and Hare used the cellar to store bodies in before shipping them off to Edinburgh. The Temperance - now called the Mackay's, when they prohibited alcohol in the late 1800 early 1900s in Wick because of all the drunken seamen in the town, the hotel was called that, and on a wet day the old name stands out on the building.
  5. Long time SciFi fan, and played the heck out of the Wing Commander and Privateer series so when the cryptic clues came up on various web forums back in 2012 it all added up to a 42 for me and I became an original backer as a Freelancer. I have also put my money where my mouth is and backed NA too, just awaiting the key to my shiny new ship now Due to a recent injury I have a reduced ability/strength in my left hand which has curtailed my passion for archery as I cannot hold my bow properly, it also affects the twitch responses needed for Arena commander in SC, not being able to feel what your fingers are doing sucks SC is a game I have been waiting for, for a very long time, Naval Action also falls in to this category for me as I do love the sea and I really do feel alive when I am aboard a ship
  6. So many great movies and so little time. My first love in films is Sci Fi, and living where after they closed the local cinema meant a 109 mile drive to the nearest one, so I built my own But anyway, to films I have loved Shogun: not a lot of naval action in it but it does start out on the stormy sea. Band of Brothers: an excellent mini series. Hornblower: this one I have as a German boxed set as the transfer to DVD is of much better quality than the one that was released in the UK Letters from Iwo Jima / Flags of our Fathers: they should be watched together, two sides of the horror of war. Last of the Mohicans: enough to say that my wife used the theme tune for our wedding last week Sharpe: Sean Bean in a series that he didn't die before the end of the first reel - it's all win! Master and Commander: really great sea tale, have the books queued on my Kindle to be read. I think they missed a great opportunity for a great series of films.
  7. There is life beyond 55 you know
  8. Yes! USS Bonhomme Richard, a ship that was given to a relative of mine, even though he managed to lose her in battle
  9. New recruit here, been shanghaied from SimHQ seen the post about paddle power... My father and uncle both worked at Denny's Shipyard in Dumbarton, with ancestors going way back to the 1700s working at the same shipyard before it became Denny's (James Paul, Engineer 1739)
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