Comments on: Spectacular photos of working boats and houseboats in Hong Kong’s harbours http://intheboatshed.net/2009/11/28/spectacular-photos-of-working-boats-and-houseboats-in-hong-kongs-harbours/ Journalist and writer Gavin Atkin's weblog about boats, boatbuilding and restoration Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Catching up with the traditional boat blogosphere – recent stuff from some peers « Chine bLoghttp://intheboatshed.net/2009/11/28/spectacular-photos-of-working-boats-and-houseboats-in-hong-kongs-harbours/comment-page-1/#comment-67384 Catching up with the traditional boat blogosphere – recent stuff from some peers « Chine bLog Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:05:22 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=8538#comment-67384 [...] Spectacular photos of working boats and houseboats in Hong Kong’s harbours – First picture of a junk is a good one. I remember these harbors – nice boats, but tight quarters! [...] [...] Spectacular photos of working boats and houseboats in Hong Kong’s harbours – First picture of a junk is a good one. I remember these harbors – nice boats, but tight quarters! [...]

]]> By: Juliehttp://intheboatshed.net/2009/11/28/spectacular-photos-of-working-boats-and-houseboats-in-hong-kongs-harbours/comment-page-1/#comment-62990 Julie Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:23:10 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=8538#comment-62990 My friend Mark, who lives in Hong Kong, has just emailed me with the following information about these pictures:The main boat with the three brown sails is a modern Chinese Junk based on the old Chinese Junk design. I believe it is owned either by the HK Tourist Board or possibly one of the hotels. I will endeavour to find out. In any event it is not a working Chinese Junk but is used for tourists. I haven't seen an original Chinese Junk in HK waters for some years. The majority of the other boats are sampans. These are the rather stubby boats with green tarpaulin roofs. The others are working barges of some description. My friend Mark, who lives in Hong Kong, has just emailed me with the following information about these pictures:

The main boat with the three brown sails is a modern Chinese Junk based on the old Chinese Junk design. I believe it is owned either by the HK Tourist Board or possibly one of the hotels. I will endeavour to find out. In any event it is not a working Chinese Junk but is used for tourists. I haven’t seen an original Chinese Junk in HK waters for some years. The majority of the other boats are sampans. These are the rather stubby boats with green tarpaulin roofs. The others are working barges of some description.

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