Kim Hollamby | The anchor swallowed » pedro 33 solano http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog Thoughts on business, internet, boating, theatre lighting and other interests Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:08:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In Seine moments in France http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2010/02/10/in-seine-and-no-reason http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/2010/02/10/in-seine-and-no-reason#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:27:01 +0000 Kim Hollamby http://www.kimhollamby.com/blog/?p=645 Incalzando, sometime in the mid 1990s. From memory the specifics were a dawn departure downstream from Rouen, to ensure we took the travelator of a tide that flows with gusto on the tidal river Seine. In the image you can just see the hints of mist, but not long before or afterward tendrils of thick fog were curling over the rails and knitting themselves into a blanket to obscure even the bankside, just a few scant metres away. It was technically illegal for a leisure boat to proceed in such circumstances, given the commercial traffic on the river, but on 70-odd miles from Rouen to the sea there are few if any places suitable for pulling over and tying up, even on a steel motorboat. And so we put the radar on and spent a concentrated hour or so until the sun got going and broke through.

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