very random

[erastes]

Over at the Macaronis - charliecochrane speaks about our experience of choosing the stories for the I DO anthology and gives some good advice for people who do submit their stories, to what ever market they choose.

Debra Parmley did an interview with me on her Make Believe Mondays Blog. Thank you, Debra!

Help needed!  Does anyone know what the name of the piece of the ship is that ... god - how do I describe it... *looks for photo*  this bit. the bit that you have to step over when you go through a door?



Wolverine and X-men rocks.

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[erastes.livejournal.com]

ah - good point - this would be a wooden ship. It's the ship that transports people from the shore to a lighthouse, so it wouldn't have these trippy up things?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

It would have the trippy up things because those are there to stop water pouring in off the deck. I don't know if it has a correct name, but 'lip of the hatch' sounds good :)

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

ask atthe_algonquin. She has volunteered on a wooden sailing ship and has probably even repaired one of those foot-catching trippy things. Or ..

AHA!

No, they wouldn't have anything more than a regular threshold. I just dug out a picture I took on the Grand Turk, ages ago, in Portsmouth, and ships were built more or less like houses.

The logic here is that you would probably (hopefully infrequently) get huge surges of water across the deck, high enough even to slop over the doorsill -- so you would want the water to run out just as fast. Steel boats have watertight seals, (quick! throw it a fish!) so the architecture is different.

It's a horribly blurry pic, but I'll send it to you. This is a frigate, but I don't imagine a barge would be much different.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you! I don't think there's anything I've ever asked that my flist couldn't answer.

:)