dylanwinter
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same spot three hours later
Chichester harbour - ribtastic
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same spot three hours later
oldharry
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Conchiglia - Trident 24, this one built mid 1960s, in production from 1961 to 1978. The two masted Johnny Depp with the knackered Vire is a Buckler 24, reputedly handles like a double decker bus.
Greenheart
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Pardon me gentlemen, but what's this thread about? I seem somehow to have missed the point. 
dylanwinter
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Pardon me gentlemen, but what's this thread about? I seem somehow to have missed the point.
it was a world beating thread drift that is for sure
Greenheart
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That's...all so odd, it reminds me of something I was offered to smoke many years ago. No apparent rhyme, reason or relation to anything else occurring in the locale. Is it code?
prv
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I think it refers to the video Dylan posted a while back, in which he ambled up and down the pontoons and around the yard of the club he was staying at. Perhaps Youtube coughed up the wrong video for Old Harry?
Pete
Greenheart
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Ah. That sounds possible. But...Johnny Depp?
prv
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Greenheart
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I see, thanks Pete.
But...dare I add that I'm not really certain what Dylan's opening post was about, either? Speedboats...not terribly remarkable, surely? And...the uneventful scene after their passing.
Looking at it again, I'm reminded of some rather idle modern art in London in the 'nineties...which seemed to have intended to irritate observers by its unexplained incompleteness.
But...dare I add that I'm not really certain what Dylan's opening post was about, either? Speedboats...not terribly remarkable, surely? And...the uneventful scene after their passing.
Looking at it again, I'm reminded of some rather idle modern art in London in the 'nineties...which seemed to have intended to irritate observers by its unexplained incompleteness.
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I can't be sure of the exact position, but those boats could be in the 8kt speed limit zone.
Seajet
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That's what I thought, and reckon they were, but more complete evidence like a zoom out then in to confirm position might have clinched it to be worth bothering the Conservancy, who have been known to zap along near the harbour entrance in their RIB with girlies aboard...
dylanwinter
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I am sure that Old Harry was reacting to the Arun yacht club tour which included a long lingering shot of my favourite small yacht.... the Buckler ketch
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/sailing-around-britain/arun-yacht-club/
as for the shot of the rib/mobo race then it was the first time I have seen a bunch of yahoos behaving in such a way - and the contrast between the harbour during a hot Easter friday afternoon and the way that it returned to peace and quiet once the rib chavs were safely settled back in front of their 50 inch flat screen TVs and the Champions league was most remarkable
I am learning how to get the best from the Solent and it is to avoid being on the water on hot bank holiday weekends
the rest of the time it can be an utterly delightful place
when on the Broads I soon leaned to sail early and late and during the day find a little hidey hole among the reeds where the mobos cannot go
I had planned to make a series called Winter in the Solent but Harmony needed quite a lot of work
maybe next year...
I am told that the Hamble Scramble is worth filming - where is the best place to pre-position myself for a bit of time lapse filming?
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Sans Bateau
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The place where Dylan shot that vid is I believe where we anchor up, between the two port hand markers just north of the HISC moorings, just about at the entrance to Mill Rythe.
Its a nice place to anchor and we can often be found there late on a Friday night, or early Sat morning. But its only at its best once the fishermen, oiks in their 'speed boats' and RIBS have gone passed on their way back to their trailers. Its not the owners of cruising power boats that create a wake issue in Chichester harbour, its the prats with day boats.
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Seajet
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Galadriel,
sssh ! That's my favourite anchoring spot too, wouldn't dream of using East Head.
Re. wash from mobo's one does get the odd large gin palace transit from Chi Marina to the entrance & vice versa at stupid speeds, but nowadays it's quite rare.
sssh ! That's my favourite anchoring spot too, wouldn't dream of using East Head.
Re. wash from mobo's one does get the odd large gin palace transit from Chi Marina to the entrance & vice versa at stupid speeds, but nowadays it's quite rare.
Greenheart
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Ah, I do see now. Another nice vid. :encouragement:
Wow! I must only ever have lived amongst such traffic, because I can't imagine noticing it. I don't like it, but I just thought dicks in speedboats were everywhere.
Is that an All-Day Breakfast at the Rising Sun, Warsash?
We ate there a couple of years ago and had to concur with the reviews - the pub is brilliantly positioned for a waterside drink, but you'd have to be thoroughly drunk already, to want any of their food. That's how it was, anyway (Almost consistently bad reviews here: http://ow.ly/w1iiX )
dylanwinter
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Ah, I do see now. Another nice vid. :encouragement:
Wow! I must only ever have lived amongst such traffic, because I can't imagine noticing it. I don't like it, but I just thought dicks in speedboats were everywhere.
Is that an All-Day Breakfast at the Rising Sun, Warsash?
the hamble Scramble is an entirely different kettle of fish
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sailorman
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The Buckler does look a little "Hollywood pirates"...
Pete
The designer gave the sales director a real challenge with that boat. Fugly isnt even close
Seajet
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Oh I dunno, it has a certain character, and it's certainly not an AWB !
Meri Girl of this parish is a big Buckler fan.
Meri Girl of this parish is a big Buckler fan.
dylanwinter
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never sailed one
the engine looks like a nightmare and fitting an outboard would be a pain - unless it was in a well
they come with twin keels
they have a separate heads
a good safe cockpit for kids
lots of small sails
a big sterndeck for sunbathing
if you had guests aboard you could not hear them snoring or shagging
like em
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Greenheart
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That's very true. Lots of slabby floating caravans look like they hope to mitigate their owners' taste for artless expanses of white plastic in a place which prefers traditional character...
...the Buckler mayn't be subtle or genuinely traditional, but it's not dull.
