A banana boat (or water sled), is an unpowered, inflatable recreational boat meant for towing. Different models usually accommodate three to ten riders sitting on a larger, main tube and resting their feet on two laterally flanking tubes which stabilize the boat. The main tube is often yellow and banana-shaped. Some models have two main tubes.
A banana boat is a traditional campfire treat consisting of a banana cut lengthwise and stuffed with marshmallow and chocolate, then wrapped in aluminium foil and cooked in the embers left over from a campfire. Sometimes the banana boat is topped with caramel sauce prior to cooking.
Banana boat was a term, a descriptive nickname, given to fast ships also called banana carriers engaged in the banana trade designed to transport easily spoiled bananas rapidly from tropical growing areas to northern markets that often carried passengers as well as fruit. During the first half of the Twentieth Century the refrigerated ships, such as SSAntigua and SSContessa, engaged in the Central America to United States trade also operated as luxurious passenger vessels. Surplus naval vessels were converted in some cases in the search for speed with Standard Fruit converting four U.S. Navy destroyer hulls, without machinery, to the banana carriers Masaya, Matagalpa, Tabasco and Teapa in 1932. Transfers to naval service served as transports and particularly chilled stores ships such as USSMizar, the United Fruit passenger and banana carrier Quirigua, and the lead ship of a group that were known as the Mizar class of stores ships. Modern banana boats tend to be reefer ships or other refrigerated ships that carry cooled bananas on one leg of a voyage, then general cargo on the return leg.
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Banana Boat is a Polish a cappellasextet, authoring and performing original songs representing the genre of neo-shanties. Being one of the pioneers of the new genre, the group retains its simultaneous focus on contemporary interpretations of traditional sea shanties and maritime music. Owing to its characteristic six-part, jazzy harmony, departing from the traditional sound of the music of the sea, the group has become one of the emblems of what the international artists of the maritime stage have informally come to dub as the Polish style maritime song. With maritime music constantly in the focus of its activity, since 2004, Banana Boat has also been experimenting with other musical genres, including popular and jazz compositions, inviting other artists to participate in individual projects. The group is a Member of International Seasong and Shanty Association (ISSA).
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican mento folk song; the best-known version was released by Jamaican-American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 and later became one of his signature songs. That same year The Tarriers released an alternate version that incorporated the chorus of another Jamaican folk song, "Hill and Gully Rider". The Tarriers version was later recorded by Shirley Bassey. Other recordings were made of the song in 1956-1957, as well as later.
The song has mento influences, but "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" was commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music. It is a work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home.
Origins
The song originated as a Jamaican folk song. It was thought to be sung by Jamaican banana workers, with a repeated melody and refrain (call and response); to each set lyric, the workers made a response. There were numerous versions of lyrics, some likely improvised on the spot by the singers. The song was probably created around the second half of the nineteenth century or the first half of twentieth century, where the there was a rise of the banana trade in Jamaica.
“Back then, Paphos would export wine and bananas on big ships that would moor a mile or so offshore; transporting produce out on smaller boats. One day as he ferried bananas back and forth, a sailor noticed a pelican drifting in the sea” ... He was happy.
Italian divers onboard the boat, ready to inspect the sunken wreck of the superyacht Bayesian ... These included windsurfers, a sailing dinghy and an inflatable 'banana boat' for towing at speed behind the ship's tender.
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So before a banana boat would be in port for 14 hours and you’d basically work from 8.00 AM to midnight to unload all the bananas ... And so like I said, if a ship came in with just bananas these ...
...Marina, which includes jet skis, kayaks, paddleboards, water skis, banana boat, floating trampoline, and the first and only water slides on a cruise ship that takes you directly from ship to sea.
Bananas were offloaded onto a smaller boat as the cargo ship approached Iquitos... 'As we were approaching the port of Iquitos several smaller ships came near us already offloading bananas and other products off the ship.'.
By Farrah Hassen ... His father was a cook aboard United Fruit Company ships and wasn’t always present. Belafonte’s 1956 song “Day-O (BananaBoatSong)” pays tribute to both the toils of his parents and the workers in the banana fields of Jamaica ... B ... B ... .
But the aftermath is now more reminiscent of maritime mystery the Mary Celeste - the US merchant ship found adrift in the Atlantic in 1872 with no crew in sight ... Youtuber UrbanBanana said it was a 'dangerous' trip wading through the submerged boat.
Speaking of shipping, entire fleets of trains and boats were specially equipped for moving bananas to the U.S., Canada and other countries, according to MoneyLemma. Shipping is a priority for banana ...
Shipping curbs Pineapple supply ... “They have huge boats and if they were shipping bananas for example, if they had any extra space, they’d fill it up with pineapples and those would be extra supplies here,” he says.
“They have huge boats and if they were shipping bananas for example, if they had any extra space, they’d fill it up with pineapples and those would be extra supplies here,” says Garcia... This shipping ...
