Simon:
Agree with you there. It is now eight years since the WSS published George's "40-Years-On" book. There are another eight years' worth of his excellent photos hidden away in the WSS archives many of which, because I was standing beside him, will be very similar to mine but taken with much better cameras. George appears in my shot of MOSDALE posted on this site.
Cheers
Bob

Hi Brent

Hope all well with you, yes - it was the TSS trip to Piraeus, memorable for MASIR and many others and for an uncomfortable 20 minutes with the Piraeus port police (we got off lightly).
Mike, I completely agree re the George Garwood book - a great pity that the WSS seems not to want to challenge the monopoly that another publisher has with that format.
best regards Simon

Hi Simon (excuse me for jumping on your thread Mike)
Long time no hear. Think 1985 was when we met up albeit Piraeus During my OE also had several Waterway jollies usually in good weather, and one of my more colourful shots was the other Hamburg-Sud "Samoa", the Tausala Samoa.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=67301

I remember a novel part of my trip was being able to access up-to-date Lloyds Indexes rather than the older issues that passed through various hands to get to the Antipodes
Cheers
Brent

Those were the days when I did my hobby for a living - working for Fairplay

Bob

It must have been "Official Business" as your shot of TAMAITAI SAMOA appeared in Fairplay a few weeks later

best regards
Simon

Simon: If you met me in 1985, I must have been "skiving-off" as was my wont while visiting Rotterdam on business.

Hi Simon,
Yes it was 1985. Actually some of the Kodachromes weren't that bad for such a dismal week.
Regards
Mike

Mike

Perhaps that cold and cloudy week was the first week in May 1985 - I was there for a fortnight and met you during the first week and Bob during the second (when the weather had improved a bit!).
best regards
Simon

I was with George on his first ever visit to the Waterway in 1968. We lodged at Abse van der Walle's Cafetaria Havenzicht in Maassluis, in the days when the Geest Line ships used to load there

Bob, I've had very good and bad there.
Once in the mid 1980s had a week of very cold and cloudy weather in May - lots of ships though - slides not recoverable!
George Garwood's splendid WSS book does illustrate his luck there! Shame a second volume showing his work was not published.

A Dutch friend used to tell me that he usually booked his holidays when he knew that my old friend, the late George Garwood, was coming to the Waterweg because he alwyays brought good weather with him. From your posted pics, Mike, it looks like you had the same luck with the weather. Don't you wish now that you'd moved onto colour back in the early 1980s?

Hi pieter, it was a sunny day when this one was taken.
But most scans need a bit of a boost in photoshop!

Mike, you have far more sunny pictures than me....

Thanks jadran - you immediately spotted a bulker built at Rijeka, Croatia!

When I glanced at this photo, I instantly knew that this ship was built at shipyard 3.MAJ, Rijeka,, having distinctive details of this yard's design of that time;

: indeed a beautiful b/w photo of this fine bulker,, thanks for posting, Mike!
regards from Rijeka /jadran