Have you actually been on the open ocean?

[DeRuyter]

They have done the same with the SS Great Britain Eric. There is a trickle of water flowing over the glass around the hull so that when you are above it looks as if she is floating and when you go below to view the outside of the lower hull you seem to be under water when you look up.
Rob.

She is on the list for my next trip across the pond! Also the HMS Trincomalee, more in our period!

[Dobbs]

She is on the list for my next trip across the pond! Also the HMS Trincomalee, more in our period!

Let me know when you're going and I'll stow away in your luggage! I've been a fan of I. K. Brunel since I was a kid.

[Bligh]

I have been involved on and off with the Great Britain ever since I was at college.
It just so happened that the pub outside the campus where most of us gathered was run by a very nice chap who also happened to be a magisterate and could get us an extended licence whenever a 21st party or engagement etc came up. More important, he was a Bristolian and was raising money to bring the GB home from the Falklands. we all contributed to the funds although we really did not have a clue at that time what it was really all about.
The first real interest I actually had was when they towed her up the cut to her old dry dock where she was built. As the years went by I watched as the renovation gradually took place. I even got a piece of her old deck when they replaced some of that and sold off sections fashioned into doorstops, cut to show not only the old square shanked nails but even some of the original caulking embeded in the doorstop.
My last visit was two years ago with Mrs Bligh, and I would have been back this year but for this plague ravaging the world.
Well maybe next year!

The most odd thing was that I ended up teaching the History of engineering to my students, and guess who waxed very large on the syllabus.