• @[email protected]
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    442 months ago

    There’s still people into boats, but it’s not very popular compared to trains/planes/cars. Which is kinda strange, there has never been a time with more shipping traffic. Maybe because ports these days are fairly inaccessible to observers

    • @JayObey711
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      42 months ago

      I used to live in an industrial city with one of the biggest inland ports in the world. The rivers are a pretty popular hangout spot. People get some portable grills and chairs and just watch the ships go by. I feel like they are a bit less interesting then old ships tho.

      • @Wrench
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        22 months ago

        And numerous. A new ship docking would set a town into a flurry, bringing in trade and money for services. Now at today’s scale of everything, one ship is meaningless unless it’s something like a giant tourist ship to a small tourist town.

    • @thawed_caveman
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      22 months ago

      Where i grew up we could see tanker ships anchored in the bay. I would have loved to get familiar with them but we never stayed there long enough and i don’t know if i would have seen the same ship twice anyway