Emma

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Emma

Post by Rainer » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:25 pm

Emma ready for the water in April 2012
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New curtains - June 2012
- inside red
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outside white
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I don't know why the pictures are so smal here. For better resolution please have a look here
http://www.steamboating.de/emma/dampfboot-emma-0700.php
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Re: Emma

Post by artemis » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:20 am

Rainer wrote:I don't know why the pictures are so smal here. For better resolution please have a look here
http://www.steamboating.de/emma/dampfboot-emma-0700.php
Here is what the source code looks like:

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Emma ready for the water in April 2012<br />
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New curtains - June 2012 <br />
- inside red <br />
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outside white<br />
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I don't know why the pictures are so smal here. For better resolution please have a look here<br />
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Somehow the forum "program" is limiting Rainer's images to 400 pixel width when they are 700 pixels wide. Help from the webmaster?
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Re: Emma

Post by DetroiTug » Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:48 pm

Rainer,

Emma is looking superb. She is one of the steamboats that inspired me to get in to this great hobby.

Thanks, Ron
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Re: Emma

Post by RogerV » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:10 am

Emma is a beautiful boat. I have looked at your web pages about her, and if you ever said why you chose the name Emma, I missed it. Do you just like the name, or is there a real Emma you named her after?
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Re: Emma

Post by Rainer » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:10 am

RogerV wrote:Emma is a beautiful boat.
Thank you!!
... why you chose the name Emma, I missed it. Do you just like the name, or is there a real Emma you named her after?
As I was a child there was a puppet story in the TV. It is the story of a lokomotive called Emma with Lukas the engineer and Jim Knopf (Jim Button) his friend having adventures around the world. Emma can fly (by magnets on a rod in front of her , swim and go without tracks.

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As I looked for a boats name I tried to avoid "usual" names like "Vulcan", "Little Oven", "Fire in the Night", "Sunset over River" etc. I also do not like to name a boat after my wife with an index of the wife/boat like "Claudia 6".

So I remembered the locomotive Emma - additional the name Emma for me ever was the name of a women who know what to do with a sense for practical things - like a old washerwoman or other down-to-earth business. And Emma is not a fancy boat - it's more a working horse with reliable technique and steel deck - no mahogany.

Later as my daughter Rebecca was born I had the opportunity to name her after my boat because the name Emma became popular in 2002 here in Germany.
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