Confession Time

[boatone]

The recurring banter between raggies and stinkpots and Byrons audacious thread on the shufflebum forum about feeling embarassed to be washing so often leads me to ask a very personal question of you all.
How many of you have been raggies in an earlier life? Come on now. out in the open with you, there's no need to be shy.
I freely confess to having owned no less than three raggy boats in my younger days and had much fun around Solent waters including regularly SAILING back on to my mooring just yards below Bursledon Bridge in my Hurley 22 and dinghying out to a swinging mooring in Itchenor reach to my Tomahawk 25. I can even remember being a member of Warsash Sailing Club BEFORE they had a bar!!!
Bet theres many more stinkpots been raggies than the other way round eh?!!!

TonyR
boatone@boatsontheweb.com
www.boatsonthethames.co.uk

 

[BarryH]

Well ok I'll come clean. I owned a Mirror, Wayfarer, Enterprise, and a GP14. I even bought a Blue Peter for the short people. But and its a big but, they were dinghies so they dont count.

 

[Steve_D]

Sails is for wimps

I was/am a sea kayaker I've even paddled to Jersey in my youth. I still get the Nordkapp out on occasions but a young family is starting to dictate other forms of transport, can't fit them all in!

Regards

Steve D

 

[lanason]

No I hae not even owned a Sail boat - Had a canoe.
i did sail in a Wayfarer and a 24 yatch - maybe it was a bit calm but boring - I should think so.

Adrian )

 

[ccscott49]

I think you might find a lot of OLDER yachtsmen are now motor yachtsmen and women of course! Almost made a very serious error then! Phew!

 

[boomer]

Alright, I'll come clean too. Actually sailed for GB in my youth (but only in dinghies so that doesn't count - for or against!!!)

Since other notables on this forum are prone to a bit of name dropping.....

.....I never actually crewed for Prince Phillip........and I never actually crewed for Uffa Fox, who used to crew for Prince Phillip......but I used to crew for Lawrence Kent who used to crew for Uffa Fox who used to crew for Prince Phillip.

The nearest I shall ever come to fame, alas.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Wow! Can I have your autograph please Dr Boomer NM

;-))

 

[DepSol]

NEVER

 

[byron]

Nope! not me, my 1st boat, I was 6 years old and had the use of one of the ship's lifeboats off my old man's Tramp Steamer.. but only when in port ;-)

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[rich]

Thames to to jersey, only took 3 1/2 days, good fun all the same. dosn't matter ,about raggie or stinkpot.your on the water,,,,,,

rich )

 

[burgundyben]

Guilty as charged!

Yes, am a raggie really, but just happend to buy a motorboat as its quicker way of getting to solent pubs.....

Just sold GP14 as it was not getting used. Will be racing at Cork week as massive yottie shag fest. Stil member Hamble River SC.

There, I've told you now.

burgundyben, coolest of men, by all I'm called, cool burgundyben.

 

[byron]

Re: Guilty as charged!

Ah but will you be back for the bestest racing of the year namely Ramsgate Week? 2nd only to Cowes Week on mainland UK., 3rd if you count Cork Week.

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[Guest]

Are we not allowed to be both. I am a raggy and a motor boater (well, bargee). I've never taken any particular dislike to myself whilst in either mode but I suppose there could be an element of bias involved.

 

[hlb]

Well Ok then. I started off with one of thoughs 8ft thingys, supposed to do everything. Sail, row, outboard. Said I'd bought it for the kids. But we had trouble with, Tutt's, two sprogs, me and a retriever, all at once. Plus the picnic hamper. So once on a weekend away in Lytham We came across this saily thing in bits. 18ft so I thought, knowing bugger all about sailing, that we would all fit in better. It was a National Osprey. 25ft mast, trapeze and sail top to bottom. Frightend us all to bloody death learning to sail it. But great fun. You feel like your doing 200 knots with your bum sitting inches from massive waves.
Anyway some folks have said dinghys dont count. But.
I am guilty of chartering a 30ft yachty thingy in the Greek islands a couple of times. But in my defence we used the engine nearly all the time cos the wind was going the other way and that was to Albania!!

Haydn

 

[traceyandsteve]

I also started off in a canoe. Did the Devizes to Westminster race one year, which was awful. My first ever boat was a Merlin Rocket which I used to race on the Thames.

Steve started off with speedboats, and from all accounts is deadly in anything with sails (fortunately I haven't witnessed this for myself).

Tracey

 

[david_e]

The Raggie in you...

I knew there was something I liked about you....now I know what it is. Welcome back to the fold my son, it is this type of cleansing of the soul that will reward you in raggieland, sell upand move across immediately

 

[ToMo]

I suppose for the likes of Claymore, ccscott49 and all other Motor-sailers it must be difficult! it would seem that most think of themselves as raggies but if and when I get my own I think that I would continue to think of myself as a stinkpot (metaphorically speaking); unless of course some bright spark amongst us "Boaters" can think of a suitable, (and not too disgusting!) alternative. I think that smelly r.. would be going too far.....So what about it all you geniuses?
TôMö

 

[Dave_Snelson]

I can tell you quite catagorically that raggies are in no way immune from being stinky.

I got roped into trying to fix a nasty old flakey green painted Volvo two cyl diesel thing that was buried in the foul-smelling sump of a friends Westerley Vulcan. A most unpleasant experience and a far cry from my comparatively sweet smelling O/B and a million miles from the Mercruisers and other similar large I/B's that I'm acquainted with.

 

[Scubadoo]

Not me started with a canoe.

RM.

 

[hlb]

Didn't understand a word of that ToMo. But if you think of it raggies are really stink pots with a rag on top. You dont meet many with no engines these days.

By the way. Heres introducing your scruffy mut to Dirty Harry.

Haydn