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#spinnakertower

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Khurram Wadee ✅

From this vantage point, the back of the #SpinnakerTower can be seen.

And here are a few more views of it from a a bit closer.

The tower is 170 m tall with three #ObservationDecks, the lowest of which is 100 m hight. I have to say that my wife was a little underwhelmed by the structure until, that is, we got up to the first #ObservationPlatform. A clue is that dark rectangle you can see on the underside.

Rear view of the Spinnaker Tower.
Side view of the Spinnaker Tower.
Underside view of the Spinnaker Tower.
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Khurram Wadee ✅

As #spring is here, it’s time to resume our own form of #EthicalTourism or #EcoToruism (day trips involving travel only by #bike and #PublicTransport – #Trains, in this case). As I’m a #StructuralEngineer, I like seeing interesting #structures and so I picked #Portsmouth. Quite recently, it had a #tower built called the #SpinnakerTower as it resembles a #spinnaker #sail. It is by no means unique, nor is it the tallest, but it’s comfortably within a day trip’s distance of us.

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Mark H

I quite enjoy engaging in the "Add Yours" story photos on #Instagram these days and one I've just posted there was for "Where are you from?" so I thought I'd share the photo here too.

This is the Spinnaker Tower in our home city of #Portsmouth; a lovely piece of distinctive #architecture with a maritime feel on the city waterfront near the naval base. This was taken in 2010 and to the left you can see masts of HMS Warrior and HMS Victory.

It's a bright, sunny day with a sky of deep blue and not a cloud visible. We're standing by calm water looking across a small gap to where waterside shops and jetties are located, emerging from our right side and stretching across in front of us to the distance where, beyond some low warehouses and other buildings for maritime purposes there are some masts from historic sailing vessels. Dominating the view, however, is a tall tower in white metal. It's one hundred and seventy metres high. From our angle looking directly at it the form is that of a tall, narrow, tapering, spiked letter A with a bulging centre of ribbed metal struts. Near the top of the bulge the upper three of dozen sections are dark glass-fronted. The bulge of struts is a stylised form of a billowing sail.
#Photography#SpinnakerTower
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Mark H

#TravelPhotography from #OnThisDay last year, taken as we sailed out of our home port of #Portsmouth aboard Virgin's Valiant Lady #cruise ship towards Belgium. We're looking at the #SpinnakerTower that dominates the waterfront and skyline of our city. It's normally white and at this time was typically lit up in blue and yellow in support of Ukraine but it took on red illumination for our ship's departure.

Shot at night, we're on a ship sailing out of the harbour of a city. The city is flat with low buildings, many with lit windows, and there are a few jetties and boats tied up alongside. Dominating the view, though, is a large tower by the waterfront. It is shaped like a spinnaker sail and from this angle appears like a long, sharp, arrowed spike out of which a structure of ribs billows out as if caught by the wind. The entire tower is lit up in red and reflects on the rippled but flat surface of the water.
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