In a way today the internet does make up for this, Robert, you're right. But what a difference there is between looking at someone else's photo and having taken the photo by yourself! As Craig said: all those wonderful ships and lost opportunities...
(Though usually I'm not a person dwelling on the past for too long, but now and then I have those certain moments):-)
Cheers, Jens

Share that feeling. Growing up near the Rotterdam port area I never enough had money to buy all the films needed to take pictures of the numerous vessels. Fortunately the internet is making up nowadays for this shortfall...

Know the feeling Jens, all those wonderful old ships and lost opportunities!

If only I had been as interested in taking ship photos as a teenager as I'm now as a grown-up... But I never had a camera with me back then when on a harbor boat trip at Hamburg. - Great shot, Frafo!
Cheers, Jens