Hire and travel around France. How a Soviet boat sank four Eritrean boats

   Mikhail Vasilievich Demurin Rusrand

Lesson for the Japanese enemies of Russia: 80 years of victory at Khalkhin Gol

The date of the beginning of World War II imposed on the world by the West - September 1, 1939 is conditional, to say the least - publication of Regnum news agency. Seeing today in the news story about the 80th anniversary of the decisive offensive of the Soviet and Mongolian forces against Japanese aggressors on the Khalkhin-Golvo river of many Russian media, I was sincerely glad: the victory on Khalkhin-Gol is the most important event of the 1930s, it highlights many key facets of history of that period, however, unfairly little has been written about him lately. The conflict, I recall ...

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  How in the USSR in 1930 they represented the world of 2000

  In 1930, the Soviet magazine Around the World presented how humanity will live in 2000. The appearance of the Internet was very accurately predicted, after which paper printing would die, and banks would make payments on the network. The basis of the economy will be an electric motor, and fossil fuels will be used only in the chemical industry. Transport in cities will go underground. Life ...

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     Igor Krylov

  How to live on one contentment: police "break-in" in Russia XIX - early XX centuries

  It is not known exactly when the proverb “Don’t deceive, don’t sell” appeared, but in this case, domestic merchants have achieved unprecedented art. “It is impossible to trade without deception ... The soul cannot tolerate! From one - penniless, from the other two, and so it goes from time to time. We have been taught a seller for five years in such a business, ”an unknown clerk philosophized a hundred years ago. On the…

  17.08.2019 17:49 57

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     Alexander Emelyanenkov

  Man and nuclear ship: 100 years ago, academician Sergei Kovalev was born

  Photo: Archive of the Central Design Bureau “Rubin” Today, August 15, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding designer and brilliant thinker, twice Hero of Socialist Labor Sergei Nikitich Kovalev. The recollections of the veterans of Sevmash and the crew of Dmitry Donskoy about Sergey Kovalev A full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Kovalev was elected in 1981, when he was over sixty. The People’s Academicians of the General Designer of Atomic ...

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  Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926

  Photo from here. Recalling his childhood, Fidel said this: “I was born in the family of a landowner. What does it mean? My father was a Spanish peasant from a very poor family. He came to Cuba as a Spanish emigrant at the beginning of the century and began to work in very difficult conditions. Being an entrepreneurial person, he soon attracted attention and took certain leadership ...

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     Alexey Volynets

  Purely Moscow banks of 1913

  © Historical Images Archive Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century, unlike the capital Petersburg, was not an international financial center. However, the banks of the "old capital" played a crucial role for the economy of Central Russia, and the largest of them had a developed network of foreign counterparties. On January 1, 1913 in Moscow, not counting dozens and even hundreds of medium and small banks ...

  11.08.2019 15:47 97

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     IA Red Spring

  75 years of the end of the Leningrad battle: heroes fought for the cradle of the revolution

  Laying flowers at the Aurora’s Memorial Oleg Barsukov © IA Red Spring For the defenders of Leningrad, the battle for the city was sacred because the heroes fought for the cradle of the revolution, said 13-year-old Vadim, laying flowers at the Aurora’s memorial near Voronny Gora in the village of Mozhaysky, the correspondent of IA Red Spring. The battle on Voronny Gora September 11, 1941. The artist V.I. Zaporozhets ...

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     Alexander Guskov

  Nikolai Buravikhin: a secret feat

  September 29, 1957 at the Mayak chemical plant, located in the secret city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozersk), the first man-made radiation emergency in the USSR took place. The authorities managed to keep secret this accident of global significance. Information about the disaster partially became available to the country's population only at the end of the 1980s, that is, 30 years after what happened. And about the true extent ...

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  A corral with a movie camera: a Cossack from Donbass who created Russian cinema

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     Alexander Guskov

  Kurchatov: its nuclear isomerism

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  Bankers of Nevsky Prospect

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  Tu-144 in Zhukovsky. Monument to past achievements ...

  In Zhukovsky near Moscow, the installation of the legendary Soviet supersonic passenger Tu-144 aircraft on a pedestal is underway. Rather, it’s not exactly the passenger Tu-144 (airborne 77114), it is the modernized Tu-144LL (“Flying Laboratory”). The history of this aircraft is interesting. In the period from 1995 to 1996, this aircraft was used by the American space agency NASA. The purpose of research is the creation of a new modern supersonic passenger aircraft. The main thing ...

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     Alexander Maysuryan

  A day in history. The Last of the Bourbons

  Charles X, the ultra-royalist king whose reign ended swiftly and ingloriously. The last king of France from the Bourbon dynasty On this day, August 2, 1830, the era of Restoration ended in France. Abdicated from the throne the last "rightful king" Charles X of the Bourbon dynasty. It would seem, what does this long-standing event have to do with us and our time? But upon close examination ...

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     Alexey Volynets

  The financial nightmare of 1905

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     Stanislav Khatuntsev

  Balkans 1900-1914: World War Cauldron

  PI publishes the first part of an article by Stanislav Khatuntsev, a historian, a member of the public editorial office of our site, dedicated to the Balkan origins of the First World War. Today, 105 years after the "guns of August" began to be fired, the Middle East is called the new Balkans. And now the whole world is watching closely the events in the Persian Gulf, fearing that every new American drone shot down or detained ...

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Blogger Sergei Anashkevich writes: Why not do something unusual and don’t hire a small ship instead of a car during a trip?
  And go on a trip around the country. For example, in France.

After all, what does an ordinary trip look like most tourists are used to?

1. Arrived at the airport. It either meets a tour operator’s transfer and then a hotel-excursions-walks-paid program, or a transfer-hotel-pool-beach-attractions, or we rent a car and then go to interesting cities and attractions, or the third option, but without a car rental.

And here is a boat!

Well, why not? Almost like a car, only here you have a hotel, a kitchen, and a vehicle.

2. To participate in this, not quite familiar trip, we were invited by the leading in Europe tour operator of river cruises on comfortable boats with independent control -.

LeBoat is part of the TUI Group - the world's largest tourist holding company and today has the largest fleet of comfortable river boats in Europe, which can be rented for cruises along the canals, lakes and rivers of 9 European countries: France, Germany, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Poland.

For our trip, we chose France, or rather its southern part - the Rhone Delta.

We took our boats in Saint-Gilles, where one of the LeBoat bases is located.

3. This comfortable Vision 4 has become our home for 4 days. Fortunately, there are all conditions for making the trip easy and enjoyable.

By the way, it was very interesting for me to compare these river boats with sailing yachts, on which I travel several times a year.

4. The main difference from the usual interiors and the internal structure of sailing yachts is the availability of space, since the layout of such boats allows this.

Along the starboard side there is a corridor into which the doors of four double cabins open.

4. The cabin, although small in area, is significantly superior to the cabins on sailing yachts.

Beds can be made together or left separately.

Above the bed there is a small shelf, in the cabin there is individual lighting, air conditioning, a wardrobe for clothes, a 220V socket and a private bathroom.

5. There are four bathrooms with a shower on this boat - in each cabin. The toilet is equipped with an electric cleaning system, and not a manual pump, as is usually the case with sailboats.

6. Climate control panel.

7. An important point that makes this type of travel interesting for tourists is that the company allows you to take these boats on an individual control basis. That is, in fact, like a rental car - without a driver (captain). Management is quite simple, a specially trained person conducts a short briefing and that’s all, you can go on a trip.

8. The life-support system is controlled by a computer. It shows the remains of fresh and industrial water in the tanks, the charge level of the batteries, recharging them with a diesel generator, etc.

9. In front of a very spacious lounge with kitchen. It can comfortably accommodate 8 people. From here you can get into the cabins and the upper deck.

10. The kitchen is equipped with a gas stove, microwave, refrigerator. Here is a flat-screen TV and DVD player.
  In the lower drawers are all the necessary utensils both for cooking and for receiving it.

12. Our first breakfast.

I think no one needs to be introduced. From left to right, Irina Rusakova, manager of TUI-Russia, alexcheban, lovigin, anton_petrus, macos, me and sergeydolya.

13. The river network in the south of France is probably no less than the automobile network. In the Middle Ages, the Rhone and its tributaries were generally the main transport artery of the region. So it is not surprising that small river shipping is so developed here.

14. Along the rivers and canals there are a huge number of towns and villages, thousands of houses were built almost directly on the water, and near each of them a pier for a motor boat. Just like car parking in front of the house. Only on the other hand.

15. In addition to the rivers in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, a huge number of canals connecting rivers, lakes and ponds. Cruise boats move, as a rule, precisely through the channels.

The thing is that a special skipper license is needed to control a boat on the river, but not to control channels. So, in fact, any adult tourist can rent a boat.

16. A river boat cruise resembles a leisurely walk or trip on a bicycle. The boat moves at a speed of about 10 km / h, which allows you to relax under the awning and enjoy the views.

17. On the first day I was surprised that in such narrow channels, boats quite calmly sail almost close to the shore. It turns out that special services monitor the canals - their depth, cleaning the bottom and banks. So, for example, a special tractor removes young shoots of shrubs, which can later become an obstacle to the movement of boats.

18. Car and river traffic.

19. In the Rhone delta there are simply a huge number of ponds and lakes. There is even a Kamarg biosphere reserve, known throughout the world.

20. Many cities have tens of kilometers of marinas and moorings for thousands of motor boats and boats, both private and cruise.

31. And this comrade has already sailed his ...

32. What can be seen during a river cruise in the south of France?
  Firstly, beautiful landscapes. In fact, without leaving home, you can admire the dawn ...

33. ... and sunset.

34. Cities. Properly building a route, you can alternate several hours of unhurried walks along the canal with walks through medieval fortresses and towns.

35. The region has many wineries, chateaux and abbeys.

36. This is the entrance to Magelon Abbey.

37. The only thing that can cause difficulties during such a cruise is a mooring. Still, certain skills and understanding of the algorithm of action are needed. But one or two moorings, and everything happens on the machine. Especially when there are three extra horsepower in addition to the engine steering column.

38. Well, after the mooring ... You can in the restaurant. Or at a private winery for a tasting. But this is a completely different story ...

canal Bay can only fit one boat?

will boats meet if the distance between the marinas is 132 km?
  2) 2 hawks flew out of 2 nests at the same time towards each other. They met after 6 seconds. The speed of one hawk is 6 m / s. What is the distance between the nests of the hawk?
  3) the distance between the spiders is 210 km. They flew on their cobwebs at the same time towards each other. One flew 40 km / h. What speed did the second spider fly if they met after 3 hours?
  4) Two swallows simultaneously flew to meet each other. One flies at a speed of 23 m / s. With what speed does the second swallow fly if the distance between them is 920 m and they met after 20 s?

later boats. What is the speed of a motor boat?

Two cars drove towards each other at the same speed. The first car drove 180 km in 3 hours before the meeting, and the second 6 hours. The second car drove to the meeting.

sailboat 7 km / h. find the speed of the second sailing ship.
25. Two carrier pigeons flew towards each other from two cities. the speed of the first pigeon is 90 km / h, before flying he flew for 8 hours. the second flew at a speed of 50 km / h. What is the distance between cities?
26. The two whales sailed towards each other, after what time they will meet, if the speed of the first whale is 100 m / min and the second is 180 m / min, and the initial distance between them is 8 km 400 meters.
27. from two cities, the distance between which is 980 km, two motorcyclists left at the same time to meet each other at an average speed of 60 km / h and 80 km / h. which way each rider drove to the meeting.
28. Two chewers go through the mountain towards each other. the speed of the first masticator is 800 m / min, and the second is 150 m / min less. What was the distance between the munchkins initially if they met after 50 minutes?
29. Two dog teams rode out of two settlements towards each other. the speed of the first team is 16 km / h, which is 2 km / h less than the speed of the second team. after what time the teams will meet if the distance between the settlements is 102 km.

Buying a motor boat or an ordinary boat is quite a responsible event, which needs to be taken as seriously as possible. It is very good if the seller not only allows you to inspect the vessel externally, but also allows you to conduct a test drive. But not all shipowners are ready to do this, therefore it is important to be savvy from a theoretical point of view.

That is why, before you buy a motor boat, you should remember all the important characteristics and features of the selected model. You can draw information from the official website of the manufacturer, from thematic sites and forums, ask questions to the owners. All this will allow you not to make mistakes.

How to inspect?

You can immediately highlight several features of the correct inspection of the boat before buying. As a rule, the inspection is carried out ashore, therefore, "work" should be in the following sequence:

• The first step is to check all the documentation provided, check the engine and housing numbers. Exact matches are very important - there should be no missing hyphens, numbers and letters.
• If everything is in order with the documents, then first you need to look at the bottom, especially the keel (in the place where it comes into contact with the underwater soil during mooring). There should be no dents or other defects.
• You should also examine the cheekbones, which suffer the most from improper use.
• The stern of motor boats is prone to cracking, so it also needs to be given special attention.
• The propulsion system requires special verification, which later did not have to be bought separately for the outboard motor in St. Petersburg, which can be quite expensive. Are subject to inspection here: gear housing, shafts, screws, wall, impeller condition, Goodrich bearing and other important elements.

What else to do?

During the inspection, do not hesitate to write down all the identified defects in order to clarify the cost of repairs afterwards. You should also look at the engine compartment. If the boat cannot be checked on water, then shore water should be connected for this, starting the engine.

During the verification process, it is necessary to note all minor details. For example, if you can see that individual elements were painted or painted over, then it is quite possible that this was done before the sale of the vessel.

A good solution would be to purchase a motor boat and additional equipment for it from specialized companies that can provide all the necessary documents upon request.

Why not do something unusual and do not rent a small boat instead of a car while traveling?
And go on a trip around the country. For example, in France.
After all, what does an ordinary trip look like most tourists are used to?
Arrived at the airport. There, either he meets a tour operator’s transfer and then a hotel-excursions-walks-paid program, or a transfer-hotel-pool-beach-attractions, or we rent a car and then drive to interesting cities and attractions, or the third option, but without a car hire.
And here is a boat!
Well, why not? Almost like a car, only here you have a hotel, a kitchen, and a vehicle.

2. To participate in this, not quite familiar trip, we were invited by the leading in Europe tour operator of river cruises on comfortable boats with independent control - LeBoat company.
LeBoat operates is part of the TUI Group, the world's largest tourist holding company and today has the largest fleet of comfortable river boats in Europe, which can be rented for cruises on canals, lakes and rivers of 9 European countries: France, Germany, England, Ireland , Scotland, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Poland.
For our trip, we chose France, or rather its southern part - the Rhone Delta.
We took our boats in Saint-Gilles, where one of the LeBoat bases is located.

3. This comfortable Vision 4 has become our home for 4 days. Fortunately, there are all conditions for making the trip easy and enjoyable.
By the way, it was very interesting for me to compare these river boats with sailing yachts, on which I travel several times a year.

4. The main difference from the interiors that are familiar to me and the internal structure of sailing yachts is the availability of space, since the layout of such boats allows this.
Along the starboard side there is a corridor into which the doors of four double cabins open.

4. The cabin, although small in area, is significantly superior to the cabins on sailing yachts.
Beds can be made together or left separate.
There is a small shelf above the bed, individual lighting in the cabin, air conditioning, wardrobe, 220V socket and own bathroom

5. There are four bathrooms with a shower on this boat - in each cabin. The toilet is equipped with an electric cleaning system, and not a manual pump, as is usually the case with sailboats.

6. Climate control panel

7. An important point that makes this type of travel interesting for tourists is that the company allows you to take these boats on an individual control basis. Those. in fact, like a rental car - without a driver (captain). Management is quite simple, a specially trained person conducts a short briefing and that’s all, you can go on a trip.

8. The life-support system is controlled by a computer. It shows the remains of fresh and industrial water in the tanks, the charge level of the batteries, recharging them with a diesel generator, etc.

9. In front of a very spacious lounge with kitchen. It can comfortably accommodate 8 people. From here you can get to both the cabins and the upper deck

10. The kitchen is equipped with a gas stove, microwave, refrigerator. Here is a flat-screen TV and DVD player.
In the lower drawers are all the necessary utensils both for cooking and for receiving it.

12. Our first breakfast.
I think no one needs to be introduced. From left to right Irina Rusakova, manager of TUI-Russia, alexcheban , lovigin , anton_petrus , macos , Me and sergeydolya

13. The river network in the south of France is probably no less than the automobile network.
In the Middle Ages, the Rhone and its tributaries were generally the main transport artery of the region.
So, it is not surprising that small river shipping is so developed here.

14. Along the rivers and canals there are a huge number of towns and villages, thousands of houses were built almost directly on the water, and near each of them a pier for a motor boat. Just like car parking in front of the house. Only on the other hand

15. In addition to rivers, the Languedoc-Roussillon region has a huge number of canals connecting rivers, lakes and ponds.
Cruise boats move, as a rule, precisely through the channels.
The thing is that a special skipper license is needed to control the boat on the river, but not to control the canals. So, in fact, any adult tourist can rent a boat.

16. A river boat cruise resembles a leisurely walk or trip on a bicycle.
The boat moves at a speed of about 10 km / h, which allows you to relax under the awning and enjoy the views on the sides

17. On the first day I was surprised that in such narrow channels, boats quite calmly sail almost close to the shore.
It turns out that special services monitor the canals - their depth, cleaning the bottom and banks.
So, for example, a special tractor removes young shoots of shrubs, which can later become an obstacle to the movement of boats.

18. Car and river traffic.

19. In the Rhone delta there are simply a huge number of ponds and lakes.
The Kamarg Biosphere Reserve, known throughout the world, is even located here (I will visit it literally next week, so expect a report from there)

20. In many cities, equipped with tens of kilometers of marinas and moorings for thousands of motor boats and boats, both private and cruise

21. In mid-April, France met us with pleasant spring weather, so that you could enjoy the surrounding views in shorts and a T-shirt.

22. Do not worry, this bike alexcheban   I did not bring with me from Kiev. This is one of the options that can be ordered when renting a boat. By the way, the option is very cool, because having arrived in another city, you go for a walk along it and see the sights. It’s one thing when you moor right in a city, such as, for example, another thing when you need to get to the point of interest, for example, to the Magelon Abbey

23. Many locals use boats at home and as a means of transportation.

24. Canal banks in Aigues-Mortes

25. It was not in vain that we were recommended to bring binoculars and televisions with us. There are just a huge number of birds

26. They are quite calm about the person, so that they can be removed quite at close range.

27. Gray heron on the hunt

28. - Beaver, look, beaver! cried Petrus.
- Oh you, it's a muskrat ...

29. This seagull could almost be touched by hand when we sailed a few meters from it. True, this can also bite.

30. In addition to birds, there are enough other flying here ...
A320 Air Arabia taking off from Montpellier

31. And this comrade has already sailed his ...

32. What can be seen during a river cruise in the south of France?
Firstly, beautiful landscapes. In fact, without leaving their house, you can admire the dawn ...

33. ... and sunset.

34. Cities. Properly building a route, you can alternate several hours of unhurried walks along the canal with walks through medieval fortresses and towns

35. The region has many wineries, chateaux and abbeys.

36. This is the entrance to Magellon Abbey

37. The only thing that can cause difficulties during such a cruise is a mooring.
Still, you need certain skills and an understanding of the algorithm of action.
But one or two moorings, and everything happens automatically.
Especially when there are three extra horsepower in addition to the engine steering column

38. Well, after the mooring ... You can in the restaurant. Or at a private winery for a tasting.
But this is a completely different story ...

Trip to Languedoc-Roussillon organized by the Russian mission