CH 4 tonight 20.00

[Renegade_Master]

Programme about a ship wreck off the needles should be interesting for all you solentites

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[oldgit]

I reckon some of em solanties are olde enough to remember it sinking.......

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[byron]

<font color=blue>I wonder.... is the boiler off that Greek Merchantman that went down just off the Needles Light in 1937 still regularly being clipped by yachts at very low tides?

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[bob_tyler]

Yes

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[qsiv]

Oh yess- we all know the transits (yet sometimes chose to ignore them to gain a yard or two), and they still wont/cant blow it up as was originally planned.

Sailing in last year with a long oily swell we could see them steepening and then breaking over the remains of the Varvassi (if my memory serves me correctly). Very eery as they are in some senses quite well off other dangers.

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[petem]

This is serious

Alum Bay is a great anchorage, and I myself have been know to drop the hook there. This wreck ought to be moved immediately before some poor soul snags his anchor on it. After all, anchors are blimmin expensive.

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[jhr]

Seem to recall that a yachting journo and allegedly ace navigator hit it with his Barracuda in the Round the Island a few years ago. The (unsinkable) Baracuda nearly sank.

I won't mention the name, to spare his blushes.

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[claymore]

Sounds Fishy to me nm.

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[AJW]

Re: Sounds Fishy to me nm.

Just Bobbing around I 'spose!

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[jhr]

Before I get sued by Sadler...

..have just recalled that the reason the boat nearly sank was because it was the (wooden) prototype. GRP production hulls were/are unsinkable, I think.

Still can't remember the guy's name. Robert Angler? Summink like that.

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