The new WordPress 2.7 version makes it much easier to find Plugins. I had a project on my back burner for which I need a decent Photo or Gallery Plugin.
I have shown already some interest here for Yachts and Yachting. I have not divulged yet that I used to be an avid dinghy sailor and used to race dinghies as well. Alas ever since I ventured into our Hotel business, my own clinker built 12 foot Dinghy dating back from 1944, is stored safely without much attention lately. I’m even not sure my old stiff legs will be able to endure a regatta anymore.
With the plugin tylr-slidr I am able to show you a couple of photos that I uploaded recently, but took in 2005 in Venice during the Biennial of 2005. There I found two Italian 12 ft Dinghies in the Arsenal. They were berthed opposite each other and were giving each other signs with lamps. It was an Art installation. A sort of act of love. Very poetic and I would never have thought of such use of two old dinghies in a basin that was used for maintenance of submarines.
The Artist, Laura Laura Belém, born in 1974 in Bele Horizonte and working there, was able to make this installation with the help of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil.
The 12ft Dinghy is a typical One Design Class. It was designed in 1913 by George Cockshott, an amateur boat designer from Southport, Lancashire, who won a competition organized by the Boat Racing Association (BRA). The BRA wanted a new sailing dinghy that would also serve as a yacht tender, and Cockshott’s design with its single, high-peaked lugsail fitted the bill.
It became an IYRU Dutch Class in 1914 and an International Class in 1920. It was even used for sailing competitions in the Olympic Games of Antwerp of 1920 and of Amsterdam of 1928. In 1920 they sailed on the North Sea with a lot of wind. The gold medal was won by the Dutch brothers Jan Hin and Frans Hin. In the 60ies I had the honor to sail against Jan Frans Hin – well, competing …. actually it was more of looking to his backside:-) The Silver medals were also won by two Dutchman (Van der Biesen and Beukers). In Amsterdam in 1928, on an inland lake near Amsterdam with not much wind, the medal winners were all of Scandinavian origin: 1)The Swede Sven Thorel, 2) Norwegian Henrik Robert and 3) The Fin B. Broman.
Recently we saw the International 12 ft Dingy class association being incorporated.
There are still several fleets, In The Netherlands there is a fleet of over 200 active enthusiasts, North Germany has a fleet mainly around Lübeck and Hamburg, Italy has several fleets and is very active, Japan, The UK and Switserland and the UK also have fleets to my knowledge. Dutch compete in Italy and Italian and Japanese sailors sometimes compete in The Netherlands.
I found a PDF file with 2007 draft Class rules in English at the site of an Italian Fleet.
This piece of nostalgia was just to test this plugin and it seems to be what I needed for this post, although the link in the upper half doesn’t seem to work properly and the loading of the whole seems a bit slow. What would you think?
Added January 5, 2008:
The next Slideshow of the same photos is as per the advice of Heather from Heather on her Travels. It loads a lot easier, and is also very easy to copy and paste into your blog, but has not the full screen view mode as the other plugin….Thanks Heather!
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I found a stand alone slide show which links to Flickr – you can see it here.
http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/the-turtle-fountain-in-rome/