Arthur Ransome's Peter Duck

[prv]

Nor did they mention digging a latrine at their various camp-sites. I do remember asking my mother about that, and she said it was a literary convention that such things were usually not mentioned. I guess it was at that time!

Sure - I well understood that, and I didn't expect the text to mention every time someone went for a pee. But to me there was a difference between politely omitting something, and actively drawing a bunk or a locker that wasn't really there because the loo was.

Pete

 

[Zagato]

How pretty is that Peter Duck ketch on Seajet's Yachtsnet link? Fabulous.

Great name as well for a boat 'For Sale'

 

[Greenheart]

Great name as well for a boat 'For Sale'

Yes! I hadn't looked carefully...thought she was named "Four Sails".

 

[KINGFISHER 8]

Her name was Bacchante ... the broker somehow got that nameboard into the pic.

 

[Lakesailor]

Bit of Photoshop; really.

 

[prv]

Bit of Photoshop; really.

Usually they just scrub out the name on boats for sale (don't really know why). Maybe this particular photoshop jockey decided that a blank plaque on the transom looked odd?

Pete

 

[Lakesailor]

Yep. Baffles me as well. Is your boat name a State Secret once you have decided to sell?

People do get paranoid.

 

[Poignard]

Usually they just scrub out the name on boats for sale (don't really know why).

Pete

Maybe they don't want potential buyers tracking down the owner and dealing directly with him.

 

[prv]

Maybe they don't want potential buyers tracking down the owner and dealing directly with him.

I assume it's a combination of that and general vague paranoia from sellers since the pictures will be on the big bad Internet.

It amuses me sometimes to try to identify a boat when they've removed the name; radio callsigns pinned up next to the VHF are a good one thanks to the MARS database. In one case the name on the dodgers was visible reflected in the highly-polished hull of the boat next door in the yard. A couple of times I've recognised the yard or marina that the boat is in.

Pete

 

[KINGFISHER 8]

Usually they just scrub out the name on boats for sale (don't really know why). Maybe this particular photoshop jockey decided that a blank plaque on the transom looked odd?

Pete

It wasn't blank ... it was a varnished name board and had the name carved into it and painted. I'll look at his site and see if he's done it to any other boats. He takes the best pics of any broker on the net.

 

[prv]

Usually they just scrub out the name on boats for sale (don't really know why). Maybe this particular photoshop jockey decided that a blank plaque on the transom looked odd?

It wasn't blank ... it was a varnished name board and had the name carved into it and painted.

You misunderstand.

It would have been blank after he'd scrubbed out the name in Photoshop, as many brokers do. I'm suggesting he decided a blank plaque would look odd when he published the modified picture, so he decided to add "For Sale". Most of us would understand that to mean that the name had been edited out, whereas a blank plaque would be less clear.

Pete

 

[Jenn27jenn]

Hi, I would be interested to find out a bit more about Sesta. She used to belong to my grandfather is now 91 and would desperately like to know how she is.

 

[NealB]

Hi, I would be interested to find out a bit more about Sesta. She used to belong to my grandfather is now 91 and would desperately like to know how she is.

I went aboard Sesta, about twenty or so years ago.

She was ashore at Hillyards, and for sale.

She was in incredible condition, and, if I recall correctly, was still +100A1.

 

[Jenn27jenn]

I went aboard Sesta, about twenty or so years ago.

She was ashore at Hillyards, and for sale.

She was in incredible condition, and, if I recall correctly, was still +100A1.

Thank you for the reply
That sounds like when my Grandfather was selling her. He took amazing care of her

 

[Seajet]

I was wondering about that, some friends of mine tracked the history of their classic boat by Lloyds Register, is there still such a thing one might find Sesta by ?

 

[ianc1200]

The Old Gaffers yearbook - which contains so called classic bermudan as well as gaff rigged boats - is one source of current such information, but the one sent out to members last week doesn't list Sesta. The last Lloyds Register of Yachts was about 1980, and for a few years there was a similar publication by Debretts. The 1980 LR does list Sesta.

 

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Maybe they don't want potential buyers tracking down the owner and dealing directly with him.

Exactly. If a broker's listed a boat for sale, he wants a commission if he sells it. He doesn't want someone going behind his back after seeing his advertisement, and then cutting him out.

I assume it's a combination of that and general vague paranoia from sellers since the pictures will be on the big bad Internet.

My sellers don't get any say in the matter. Where the vessel is listed by name rather than type, then I 'anonymise' the boat if I can -- in fact that's one of the conditions under which sellers list with me. Of all the boats listed for sale on this page (apart from the earliest four, where it didn't apply), only one boat is listed under her right name. All the other names are invented. (And any enquirer is notified of the correct name, and the reason for the name-change, immediately on enquiring.)

Mike

 

[jwilson]

The queries about blanked or changed names arose because of photos on http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/ that are now no longer online as the boat is long since sold.

It's not really because we are worried about buyers cutting us out of the transaction - it's because:

a) some names are so horrible many buyers wouldn't consider the boat,

and b) because if a boat is clearly identified as 'for sale' some people think they have carte blanche to clamber all over it. We have known damage from this, also things like sailcover and lines loosened and even once an unlocked but shut saloon hatch left wide open to the rain.

For these reasons we don't usually put up "For sale" signs on the boat itself. These days if someone is buying it's 99% certain they'll look online as well as wander around local boatyards.

 

[Minchsailor]

I once met Arthur Ransome. Must have been about 1958. He drew a little picture of a gaff rigged dinghy (Swallow?) on the frontispiece of my copy of 'Swallows and Amazons".

One of the grand/great whotits have it now.

 

[jmcc500]

Hi, I would be interested to find out a bit more about Sesta. She used to belong to my grandfather is now 91 and would desperately like to know how she is.

Hi Jenn,

My partner has this photo of Sesta in about 1972, in Studland Bay. The three boys are her two brothers and one of their friends. Hope you see this - realise it’s a few years since the last posts on this thread!