definition of a "mature"yottie

[brianp]

Re: definition of a \"mature\"yottie

I think you are all talking about the ancient mariner not the mature one. Anyone in their early 50's is likely to go funny at Led Zepplin playing 'Stairway to Heaven' or perhaps more appropriatly Rod Stewart singing 'Sailing'!
Probably got longer hair than their juniors too!

 

[paulstevens]

re: stairway to heaven

actually its now stairlift to heaven

 

[billmacfarlane]

Re: definition of a \"mature\"yottie

" Sailing by". A mature yottie thinks "Sailing by" is a fairly new tune and can remember what was played before - and at what time !!!

 

[Gunfleet]

Re: definition of a "mature"yottie

someone who has a stepladder to get him up the high topsides on his new BavElanJen. Listen boys, if you need a stepladder, get a smaller boat.

 

[JonA]

Re: definition of a \"mature\"yottie

They don't seem to stock those long black PVC(a bit modern I know) coats with double breasted, buttoned, storm fronts and extra bits over the shoulders. Best oilskins I've ever had, worn with s'wester and thie boots. The world goes downhill.
Also the the time to pump was when one's boots floated out of the cabin into the saloon.
Jonathan

JonA

 

[Lynette]

Er ... senior moment?

North Foreland ..... dah dit, dit dit dah dit, .... surely?

I still work out morse code by recalling the sound of the familiar RDF beacons. On a crisp winter evening like tonight, we could pick them up at home from all around the Channel on the trusty Seafix, bringing back memories of summer pleasures.

 

[Lynette]

Decca?

Early Decca, right? Gosh, you were flash. Did you have the charts that were absolutely smothered in lines, for your counts of 60?

Took all the fun out of it when they worked out how to get Decca to display a simple position.

 

[Violetta]

No, Consol

Air navigation system. Each station broadcast a directional signal consisting of X number of dots and Y number of dashes - always adding up to 60. One count theoretically got you a position line (you never got exactly 60) Three stations and a special chart. Yes, it did have a lot of lines on it, but it was quite helpful when you were out of range of RDF, been on EP for a while (especially hove to in a gale for a bit) and a stubbornly cloudy sky. But the counting was the very devil..........

 

[paulstevens]

Re: Er ... senior moment?

reckon youre right, says it all really!

 

[peterb]

Re: No, Consol

Did you know that Consol was introduced during the war by the Germans to help U-boats with their navigation. And that when it was suggested that the RAF bombed the stations, the RN said that it helped them more than the U-boats?

 

[paulstevens]

STARTER BOATS

I reckon Neal's defintion of a mature yottie wins hands down. (Someone who considers 20' a good size for a a starter boat).
My starter boat in 1971 was a 2.5 ton canoe yawl from the twenties. She had been recently sunk in Maldon but with no engine, electrics, gas or upholstery it was merely a case of hosing out the mud and bunging on a few more tingles. She took me as far as the Isjlmeer in little comfort but a good deal of style and she also saw me through a north sea gale. Much to my disgust she has ended up as a "feature" in a "themed" restaurant on the IOW, complete with a fish tank let into the topsides. Yes I know but it really is true.
Any more stories of starter boats out there? (but not AWB's).

 

[AndrewB]

One who browses the bits barge at Bursledon.

A trip down memory lane for the 'mature' yottie. The place is full of them. "Hey, there's a tufnol winch like we had on the Westerly Windrush .... a compression valve lever from the Lister ... the compass we used on the Seafix".

They will browse among the damp and rotting copies of 60's PBO's all day. Course, they head across the road to the 'other' chandlery full of shiny parts in blister packs if they actually want to buy something for their BenJenBav.

 

[brianp]

Re: re: stairway to heaven

Thats modern technology!

 

[Gunfleet]

Re: One who browses the bits barge at Bursledon.

I've got tufnol winches.
But then come to think of it, Paul did the survey....
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[Magic_Sailor]

Sump pump

Someone who'd rather have a sump pump for Christmas than a Kylie calendar.

Magic

 

[Neal]

that suggests another definition....

Us mature types actually have at least four decades worth of YM's and PBO's in there spare bedroom.

And, yes, it's true, the standard of writing then was far higher than in today's offerings.

 

[Johnjo]

Re: definition of a \"mature\"yottie

Someone who has the experience to tie the halyards clear of the
mast when settling down for the night,

mike

 

[Mirelle]

Tins in the bilge, by anyc chance?

I distinctly remember a YM article at about that time where JDS called for a selection of old tins to see if they were still safe to eat. He was sent a supply of tins that had lain in the bilges of a canoe yawl in the Blackwater for some time - the photgraphs were quite something!

Anyway, I agree - 12 happy years in my 2 1/2 tonner. She got me to Holland and back and her next owners got to Falmouth and back.

 

[paulstevens]

Re: Tins in the bilge, by anyc chance?

Mirelle,
not my boat, ("Arklight").
Couldnt keep anything in the bilges. She leaked so much that when crossing the Deben bar a small shoal actually formed in the bilges.......
Great fun though.

 

[Violetta]

First command

With a lid - Chartered 18ft 6 Blackwater sloop. Lovely little boat - comfortable, seakindly, handy. A little later I saw one advertised for (I think) £600. I asked the bank manager.....but he would only go as far as £300, the rotter. First owned (again, with a lid) - a 22 foot gaff rigged Dauntless that was so run down, leaky etc. that I bought her for £1 per share (total £68) Another lovely, comfortable little boat. We had lots of fun with her - AND - she was the bait for my spouse of many years. As he lay beside me in the romantic setting of the Colne mud, looking for the source of the many leaks, I thought "oh, oh - this looks promising". When he cured the Stuart Turner of ailments that baffled the marine engineers, the die was cast.......