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Just been updating and looking through my photo library.
I snapped this one yesterday morning down on the beach opposite Government Road. I like the red hull on the yacht, the bright lifebuoys and the colour of the planks of the sheds below.
I don’t pay too much attention to what boats are in the yard at anyone time, though I’ll notice a boat that looks unusual or is much larger than the others. It’s always good to see a tractor towing a boat on a trailer in or out of the yard. It’s an activity that sort of feels local to Hoylake and, not that you should need reminding, that we live by the sea and we have strong ties to it.
Further along the beach our local pirate ship, Grace Darling, has had some repairs recently and she’s currently flying a Manx flag:
Having searched, the Manx flag is a “triskelion or triskele… a motif consisting of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry. The spiral design can be based on interlocking Archimedean spirals, or represent three bent human legs.”
I don’t like pub quizzes myself, but if you do, that’ll be an answer for you one night 🙂
Thanks! Nice photos!
The ‘boatyard’ was one of the ‘places we used to play’. One year we found an old cabin and created a den that was closed off by a hunk of wood around 1m x 0.75m. It was awesome, we tied blue rope and created a drawbridge type access. We had piece of pipe as a lookout and watched the cowl on the clubhouse as it swung around, imagining it was a camera spying on us. A couple of days later we went back and it was destroyed. We were mortified. Whilst studying the remains of our base we received an unwelcome torrent from a ‘man on a boat’ – “this isn’t a f*cking playground, if one of these boats falls over you’ll be dead”. You’ll remember if you have actually been there, the boats being propped by big chunks of timber and oil barrels. Best den ever – fact!