Do you know the owner of Skean Dhu of Parkstone?

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I recently took a nice picture of GBR9417Y-Skean Dhu of Parkstone passing the Needles.

If you know the owner please contact me so we can somehow get the picture to them.

Thanks.
 
SolentBoy said:
I recently took a nice picture of GBR9417Y-Skean Dhu of Parkstone passing the Needles.

If you know the owner please contact me so we can somehow get the picture to them.

Thanks.
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A yacht of that name used to be berthed at The Parkstone Yacht Club many years ago ,,,

Parkstone Yacht Club • Pearce Avenue, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, BH14 8EH • Tel: 01202 743610 • Fax: 01202 716394
 
I will try Parkstone and also Royal Southampton, as the boat seems to have raced there a lot.

I am not sure about the yourboatpix thing. I am happy to give my pictures to the owner, but just putting them on a public domain site with a very small chance of the owner finding them?............I would rather know.
 
I'm a member of Parkstone YC and don't recognise the boat name, nor is it in the Club membership book of 2009, I don't have later ones to hand. Doesn't mean it isn't a PYC boat mind.

It is a common thing with Part 1 registered boats to avoid duplication of names, by adding 'of somewhere'. I owned a Liz 30 over 25 years back called Callisto of Parkstone which I'm told now sails up in the Scottish Islands. Our W33 we renamed 'Heartbeat' when we bought her and was part 1 registered, when we sold her we changed the name to Heartbeat of Arne so that we could retain Heartbeat on it's own for our last boat. We had 24 years of 'Heartbeat' but our new USA boat will stay with it's current name.
 
is this the same boat?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-15552321

Text reads:

A sailor who suffered head injuries in a fall onboard a yacht off Dorset has been rescued by the coastguard.

Portland Coastguard received a radio message from the Skean Dhu which was passing 13 miles south of Portland Bill in gale force winds on Tuesday night.

The coastguard rescue helicopter was scrambled and Weymouth's RNLI all-weather lifeboat was launched.

The 63-year-old was winched into the helicopter before being flown to Southampton General Hospital.
 
Robin said:
........ don't recognise the boat name, nor is it in the Club membership book of 2009, I don't have later ones to hand........ Our W33 we renamed 'Heartbeat' when we bought her ..........
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As very much a 'newbie' here, I hoped to avoid getting involved too early (softly, softly, catchee monkey) but, as a Scotsman and a supporter of the Gaelic language, I think all the owners, past and present, should be chastised for use of pseudo-Gaelic.

The correct name SHOULD be 'Sgian Dubh'.

It's a common error unfortunately, akin to spelling Robin's vessel's name 'Hartbeet' simply because it sounded 'about right', and the spelling worked out 'OK-ish'!
 
HappyHunter said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-15552321

Text reads:

A sailor who suffered head injuries in a fall onboard a yacht off Dorset has been rescued by the coastguard.

Portland Coastguard received a radio message from the Skean Dhu which was passing 13 miles south of Portland Bill in gale force winds on Tuesday night.

The coastguard rescue helicopter was scrambled and Weymouth's RNLI all-weather lifeboat was launched.

The 63-year-old was winched into the helicopter before being flown to Southampton General Hospital.
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Could well be! I photographed him heading west past the Needles at about 15:00. We were returning from Dartmouth. Quite a big swell. Glad I was going the other way.
 
Hi,
Skean-Dhu was my family's yacht. She was launched at Mitchell's in Parkstone in 1966 and was moored in Poole Harbour for many years until sold in the 1980s. My mother (83) and several family members are still members of Parkstone Yacht Club - I now live in New Zealand. I believe Skean-Dhu is currently berthed in the Hamble.

If you have a good photo of her we'd love to see it. We have many happy memories of times aboard her. dr.i.watson@gmail.com is my email.

Ian
 
Sorry, but I must strongly object to your narrow minded attitude.

This was my family yacht. I was at her launch in 1966 when I was 6 years old. I was christened in Scotland & my whole family is Scotish. Had we named our beautiful yacht Sgian Dubh nobody on the South Coast could have pronounced her name! If we wanted the English name she would have been called "Black Knife" but Skean-Dhu was much better. Climb down off your high horse!
 
Sgian Dubh

There's a yacht of that name moored off Pin Mill. I can only bear to look at it peripherally as the spelling causes an involuntary squirm of distaste every time I see it.
 
Amulet said:
There's a yacht of that name moored off Pin Mill. I can only bear to look at it peripherally as the spelling causes an involuntary squirm of distaste every time I see it.
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For God's sake. Do you suffer an involuntary squirm of distaste every time you see the word "Munich" instead of "Muenchen"? "Rome" instead of "Roma"? "Karl der Grosse" instead of "Charlemagne" (or vice versa)? "Moscow" instead of "Moskva"? What precious pretentiousness. It's an innocent anglicisation which has as much right to live as Munich or Moscow.
 
But he's a Scot. Who's to say if Germans, Italians, Russians etc squirm when they see the anglicised versions of their languages?
Who doesn't squirm when they read 'color', 'aluminum' or hear 'newcular power station'?
 
Dockhead said:
For God's sake. Do you suffer an involuntary squirm of distaste every time you see the word "Munich" instead of "Muenchen"? "Rome" instead of "Roma"? "Karl der Grosse" instead of "Charlemagne" (or vice versa)? "Moscow" instead of "Moskva"? What precious pretentiousness. It's an innocent anglicisation which has as much right to live as Munich or Moscow.
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OK, I admit it's a weakness, I'm not even a Gaelic speaker, but a Gaelic word with a "k" in it looks really bizarre. Broadly adopted anglicisations are understandable (maybe still sad). Naming your boat is something you think hard about - why would you muck about with a traditional word? Presumably you chose it because you care about it, and it's not as if the Gaelic spelling is not in use in English. I'm not asking you to change the spelling of "slogan"!

However, I'm sure you'll tell me that "telebhisean" looks a pretty strange way to refer to you tv, so I guess you win.
 
Amulet said:
OK, I admit it's a weakness, I'm not even a Gaelic speaker, but a Gaelic word with a "k" in it looks really bizarre. Broadly adopted anglicisations are understandable (maybe still sad). Naming your boat is something you think hard about - why would you muck about with a traditional word? Presumably you chose it because you care about it, and it's not as if the Gaelic spelling is not in use in English. I'm not asking you to change the spelling of "slogan"!

However, I'm sure you'll tell me that "telebhisean" looks a pretty strange way to refer to you tv, so I guess you win.
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But you don't seem to have the same problem writing Cambridge rather than it's correct name Grantabrycge. :D
 
Amulet said:
However, I'm sure you'll tell me that "telebhisean" looks a pretty strange way to refer to you tv, so I guess you win.
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Why do you suppose so? Sounds very cool to me, actually -- telebhisean. I like it. The Russians call it "televizor". The teleported vizage. Just -- relax a little. :) And squirm less.
 
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