Emma

[Rainer]

Emma ready for the water in April 2012






New curtains - June 2012
- inside red


outside white


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

[artemis]

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?

[DetroiTug]

Rainer,

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

Thanks, Ron

[RogerV]

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?

[Rainer]

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.





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.