Collisions in the SYH Classics

sailorman said:
thems came in,in the 60s :rolleyes:
i understand that "Undina" was somewhat involved :eek:
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Whilst sitting outside the shipwreak on Saturday afternoon with a pint watching them all come down the stour and gybing into the orwell, I thought I saw Undina dropping her sails just before the gybe mark and motor off, also saw a yacht with a mast on deck motoring down the river, if it was a dismasting, they seemed to have cleared it all away very well, if not it was a funny old day to be out with no mast up?
 
pyrojames said:
Undina was mixed up in a couple of incidents, but not the dismasting, that was a broach. Also another yacht hard aground at Erwarton Ness after an uncontrolled broach. I left my spinnaker in the car!

Lots of pictures here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gliderg...7627005158670/
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I dont think G RJ owns Undina anymore, it was moored the other side of the pontoon to me and one of my neighbours saw the great star *******ing someone, and saying things like 'your crew will need to do this and that etc' he thought it quite funny that someone should be getting a rollocking after parting with alledgedly close to 200K!!
 
sailorman said:
thems came in,in the 60s :rolleyes:
:eek:
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Takes about 50 years to peculate through ...........

"If Winnington-Fortiscue-Smythe designed the thing in 1935 without a kicking strap, it damn well shouldn't have one in 2005 "

" But it would sail better ?"

" That's not the point old boy ! "

"Why's that ?"

" If you have to ask you are a bounder sir ! "
 
davidfox said:
Whilst sitting outside the shipwreak on Saturday afternoon with a pint watching them all come down the stour and gybing into the orwell, I thought I saw Undina dropping her sails just before the gybe mark and motor off, also saw a yacht with a mast on deck motoring down the river, if it was a dismasting, they seemed to have cleared it all away very well, if not it was a funny old day to be out with no mast up?
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The dismasting was a Stella, unfortunately being driven by me at the time!
An especially vicious squall caused a broach with the kite up, then suddenly a cracking noise then everything goes quiet and the boat is upright again. On reflection I suppose we did do quite well to get it all back on board and underway without outside help. I'd rather not have had that experience though
 
DanTribe said:
On reflection I suppose we did do quite well to get it all back on board and underway without outside help.
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Well done, a good job!

I stood by a HR345 when racing in the Baltic last Sept when it broached and crash gybed in a F7 losing the mast. It is amazing how quickly a boat stops when the stick goes, but what a lot of bits of string and wire are left everywhere!
 
DanTribe said:
The dismasting was a Stella, unfortunately being driven by me at the time!
An especially vicious squall caused a broach with the kite up, then suddenly a cracking noise then everything goes quiet and the boat is upright again. On reflection I suppose we did do quite well to get it all back on board and underway without outside help. I'd rather not have had that experience though
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Yes It was a Stella, It all looked very tidy from where i was (I was the one with the beer pointing)
 
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