“The Naming of Boats is a Serious Matter’’

[nortada]

Now that is one seriously pretty piece of kit!
As has already been mooted, I would stick with the name...phonetically simple and seems to fit the boat!

Brings back happy memories

By the flag it looks as if she is underway, heading west off the Hamble, with the previous owner’s crew

Given the reputation of some of her crews (not mine Gov), it might be a good idea to change her name to something like - UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

Don’t want men in black hats climbing aboard and reclaiming her for Queen and Country.

ps Why am I up at this time

The crew have just advised we are dragging - WE ARE NOT :disgust:

 

[Kukri]

Not my picture. It was used by the brokers and I suspect it was taken on the delivery trip to Lymington. I am old fashioned and I never get under way under motor with the mainsail cover on and without an anchor ready to drop. Comes of having grown up with an earlier generation of engines...

OK seriously I can see looking at any detail of the boat that the Joint Services people know exactly what they are doing and she was handed over in very good order. I can also see that pottering round to Lymington with a crew of three they could have got sail up in short order.

I doappreciate the garden seat across the pushpit, though!

 

[Max Campbell]

I'll add my weight to keeping Kukri, great name, and fitting. You don't get it out unless you mean to finish the job.

 

[nortada]

Not my picture. It was used by the brokers and I suspect it was taken on the delivery trip to Lymington. I am old fashioned and I never get under way under motor with the mainsail cover on and without an anchor ready to drop. Comes of having grown up with an earlier generation of engines...

OK seriously I can see looking at any detail of the boat that the Joint Services people know exactly what they are doing and she was handed over in very good order. I can also see that pottering round to Lymington with a crew of three they could have got sail up in short order.

Blue JSASTC Flag rather gives it away.

Sail up quickly?

Army crew. Wouldn’t bank on it!

Where do you plan to berth her?

 

[Kukri]

Blue JSASTC Flag rather gives it away.

Sail up quickly?

Army crew. Wouldn’t bank on it!

Where do you plan to berth her?

In the Orwell. Ideally on a buoy, but that is not proving a simple matter.

 

[nortada]

In the Orwell. Ideally on a buoy, but that is not proving a simple matter.

A national monument.

Wonder if she has been this way before?

Get Wattisham to lay a special buoy for her and film your arrival (off the Naze?).

I am sure the local press/TV will be interested in her arrival.

She will be the talk of the river and beyond. Given her pedigree (and size) you could offer (paid) trips around the bay.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

In the Orwell. Ideally on a buoy, but that is not proving a simple matter.

Pin Mill? Also, IIRC don’t RHYC have some buoys near Clamp house?

 

[sailorman]

Pin Mill? Also, IIRC don’t RHYC have some buoys near Clamp house?

Yes below Clamp House

 

[Kukri]

Yes, she’s been this way before. Foxes slipped her to replace the stern tube seal and have a video of this event on their website

Too big for Pin Mill (max. LOA 39ft according to Gus). RHYC mooring committee have one buoy on the “B” trot, below Clamp House, of suitable size, but FARAMIR is on it, and they don’t want to lay another because it was so much trouble. They suggest laying another above it - Tam is happy to do it but the Ipswich Harbour Master isn’t interested. Asked SYC ages ago about their buoys - no response.

Well, I’m not in a hurry - she is staying in Lymington for the winter...

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Yes, she’s been this way before. Foxes slipped her to replace the stern tube seal and have a video of this event on their website

Too big for Pin Mill (max. LOA 39ft according to Gus). RHYC mooring committee have one buoy on the “B” trot, below Clamp House, of suitable size, but FARAMIR is on it, and they don’t want to lay another because it was so much trouble. They suggest laying another above it - Tam is happy to do it but the Ipswich Harbour Master isn’t interested. Asked SYC ages ago about their buoys - no response.

Well, I’m not in a hurry - she is staying in Lymington for the winter...

What's the Harbour Master's beef?

 

[Kukri]

What's the Harbour Master's beef?

“Always show respect to the honourable men in power.”

Extracted from the testament and instructions to his heirs of Mitsui Takatoshi (三井 高利), founder of the house of Mitsui.

I am sure he has good reasons.

 

[photodog]

Yes, she’s been this way before. Foxes slipped her to replace the stern tube seal and have a video of this event on their website

Too big for Pin Mill (max. LOA 39ft according to Gus). RHYC mooring committee have one buoy on the “B” trot, below Clamp House, of suitable size, but FARAMIR is on it, and they don’t want to lay another because it was so much trouble. They suggest laying another above it - Tam is happy to do it but the Ipswich Harbour Master isn’t interested. Asked SYC ages ago about their buoys - no response.

Well, I’m not in a hurry - she is staying in Lymington for the winter...

The Syh buoys take boats bigger than that... and there’s a good number empty all the time.

 

[Kukri]

The Syh buoys take boats bigger than that... and there’s a good number empty all the time.

r

You might think that if they wanted to keep an existing customer they would reply to two separate written enquiries about those buoys. But apparently not. Perhaps there are invisible boats on them - the ones that can’t get onto the Ipswich Harbour Master’s invisible moorings, which occupy all the apparently empty spaces in the estuary.

 

[photodog]

r

You might think that if they wanted to keep an existing customer they would reply to two separate written enquiries about those buoys. But apparently not. Perhaps there are invisible boats on them - the ones that can’t get onto the Ipswich Harbour Master’s invisible moorings.

They don’t reply to emails... Or phone messages...you need to go in and get a reply live!

They do appear to still use proper mail otoh, so I’m surprised you didn’t get a reply..they seem to be good at sending out bills..

But there is no way all those bouys on the west side are full... I know there was a really prime big ketch out there temporarily a few weeks back...

 

[Tradewinds]

Yes, face to face is the best way.

Chris Nunn is your man I think.

 

[Kukri]

Mooring for 2019 now sorted. Found the SYH stand at SIBS and spoke to Johnathan Dyke who said that Chris Nunn had been trying to call me, having worked out who I am after he had seen this thread...alas the number on file at SYH is my land line and I have got so fed up with unwanted calls that I had disconnected the hand set!

Credit due to Chris for working out who I was, on the basis of not much evidence, and the Managing Director of Suffolk Yacht Harbour is a jolly nice chap. It was only at the end of a twenty minute conversation that I asked for his card and realised that I was holding what my Japanese friends call “ a heavy machi”