Palinuro's lifeboats

Palinuro is in town. See this old post of Livorno Daily Photo for more info about the training ship (thanks Trillian and Vagon).

Three's company

Optimist dinghies in Sistiana.

When there's no wind, the only way to move at all is to stand up and steer the helm back and forth. Sooner or later, a gust of wind will get the fun going.

A little fishing boat

Pelorus

The huge Pelorus with its private helicopter.

Oddshot on Monday

More water in than out.

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Boats on stilts

The crowded moorings of the Sacchetta Marina.

Storm jib

An important safety aspect of sailing is to adjust the amount of sail to suit the wind conditions. As the wind speed increases the crew should progressively reduce the amount of sail (wiki).
Here's a good example of reduced sail while sailing in the Gulf with a strong Bora wind (probably 20/25 knots). No mainsail up, just a storm jib, a small sail made out of heavy cloth for use in heavy weather.

Floating market

While the rowers were rowing, these two fishermen, moored at a jetty in Barcola, were selling their fish, which they had just freed from the nets.
Few people were actually buying their wares, those crowded round the boat were mostly curious bypassers who appeared never to have seen a live fish.

Rowing (3)

A lone rower and an empty oil tanker.

Rowing (2)

Here are the rowers in action.

Two different types of boat are used and reflect the two forms of rowing: sweep rowing and sculling. In sweep rowing each rower handles a single oar in sculling a rower uses two oars, or sculls.

The sweep boats (each rower has one oar) can have a coxswain (a person who steers the shell using a rudder). So we can have a Coxed Pair (2+), a Coxless Pair (2-), a Coxed Four (4+), a Coxless Four (4-), a Eight (8+).
The Sculling Boats (each rower has two oars) only in rare cases have a coxswain. Steering is generally accomplished by applying more power or pressure to the oar(s) on one side of the shell. So we can have a Single (1X), a Double, a Double (2X), a Quadruple (4X), an Octuple (8X).

Rowing

Trieste boasts fifteen or so rowing clubs, five of which are over a hundred years old. The oldest was founded in 1863. So, as you can imagine, rowing is an important sport in the city. Some clubs are based right on the city's seafront, and so, as you stroll along the promenade, you may come across a rower as they slide their boat into the water for a training session.
Today's photo is an archive photo shot at the beginning of the autumn when it was still warm enough to wear just a t-shirt, tomorrow I'll show you some rowers in action in the freezing winter gulf.

Bragozzo - it's not competitive but it cuts a fine figure

The Bragozzo was the most commonly used fishing vessel between the 18th and 19th century, both along the coastline and out at sea. It dates much further back than that, and originally came from Chioggia (near Venice), before becoming widespread all along the coast of the Veneto region and throughout the Adriatic Sea.

Waiting for the Barcolana 2008

I don't think he will be ready by the 12 of October!