Oh how lovely to see some fresh footage of QE2 looking so alive.
Your Dad adopts a very clever camera angle at around 1:50 that I've not seen used before. Those lovely smooth, bleached wooden decks on the observation deck - I remember thinking they were like warm sand on a beach under your feet - and I remember placing a glass of champagne just there so I had my hand free to take a photo. What a great thing to have that footage of yourself as a child.
Plenty more to come, that's not already all on my Dad's channel (and some longer edits of footage already on his channel)!
I remember that was partly to try and reduce the wind noise coming through the camera's microphone (a common problem even with a dead cat). It also shows part of QE2's clever, old bridge front night lighting arrangement that I hope is active again at somepoint although with low energy light bulbs such as LEDs). I miss the smooth, light coloured teak decks too although QM2 is the same in most places (but not her lowest aft deck for reasons I don't understand).
I am very grateful to my Dad for this footage, as I am to both my parents for the voyages on QE2 between 2003 and 2008!
I remember the sunken ship/yacht when she was floating (I took a photo with her from QE2's aft decks in October 2004). I did some research on her a while back and she was basically abandoned by her owners some years before and left to fall apart, and as it turns out sink - a massive shame as she was a lovely looking vessel.
Trying to look up for any length of time was quite difficult!
