Maritime Museum of San Diego

limeydal · 23 June 2007, 05:43

A video clip of the Star of India at the Museum I volunteer at.
Interesting piece of history, seeing as she was built in GB.
http://www.sdmaritime.com/videoPage_SailingSI_high.asp

cheers Dal

codprawn · 23 June 2007, 15:50

Terrible connection speed BUT at least they let you download the file so you can watch it properly!!!

It's coming through at 7.6k - that's almost dialup so will leave it run for a while!!!

codprawn · 23 June 2007, 20:55

Worth the wait - lovely video - shame we have to rely on the Yanks to look after our heritage though!!!

limeydal · 24 June 2007, 00:41

Impressed by the enthusiasm over here for her. They get over a hundred volunteers turnout every other week to do maint; and practice skills. Should be interesting in November, when for the Stars annual sail, they will have to provide crew and support for the Star,the Californian,the pilot and the Surprise!
Looking forward to covering that!

Now if we could only get the Russian sub seaworthy!!

There is a shorter clip on the Californian on that site that was shot from my RIB. Not quite as proffesional though,but stil interesting;
Glad you enjoyed it;
cheers Dal

codprawn · 24 June 2007, 01:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by limeydal

Impressed by the enthusiasm over here for her. They get over a hundred volunteers turnout every other week to do maint; and practice skills. Should be interesting in November, when for the Stars annual sail, they will have to provide crew and support for the Star,the Californian,the pilot and the Surprise!
Looking forward to covering that!

Now if we could only get the Russian sub seaworthy!!

There is a shorter clip on the Californian on that site that was shot from my RIB. Not quite as proffesional though,but stil interesting;
Glad you enjoyed it;
cheers Dal

Even the Russians couldn't get their subs seaworthy - if you like living don't go near it!!!