First love

[Cerddinen]

I strongly suspect that this is my first boat back on the market:

cgi.ebay.co.uk/Westerly-Merlin-Yacht_W0QQitemZ140362148321QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Sporting_Goods_Sailing_Boats_ET?hash=item20ae3c69e1

Why won't he post some pictures so I can be sure? It would be good to see an old friend again. Do other people feel similar nostalgia for their past boats?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Well, if my father's yacht (a Halcyon 27) had been on the market when I was looking, I would have been sorely tempted - despite the unavoidable fact that she would be a completely unsuitable craft for me!

 

[SP2]

Yes, I really loved my dad's 42 foot wooden boat which he sold in the mid 80's. I knew she had gone to the Med but heard she was back in the UK. About 4 years ago I was on the marina when, to my amazement, she was sitting in the visitor berths and we had to walk past her.

I tried to talk myself onboard with the new owner but he kept me firmly on the pontoon.

Then a couple of years later she came onto eBay. I found her with 24 hours to run on the bidding and had a very sleepless night trying to justify a decision to bid. In the end I didn't and she failed to make the reserve.

A couple of months later I found her on a brokerage site. I called the broker who couldn't raise the owner for a viewing. After a month the broker said that the owner had changed his mind and decided not to sell.

I couldn't justify her on any basis now... unless I saw she was for sale again!

 

[30boat]

My father's 42ft wooden double ender was a beautiful boat.She was sold to somebody in the US so little chance of coming across her but she was beautiful.I believe she was used for smuggling between Tangier and Lisbon in the 40s.Her name was Maripurak then.

 

[Amulet]

I said yes

Am I the only one sentimental enough to say yes? See:
The Amulet Story

 

[Kilter]

Am I the only one sentimental enough to say yes? See:
The Amulet Story

That's wonderful!

 

[Ubergeekian]

I strongly suspect that this is my first boat back on the market:

I still have my first boat. I'm giving the one I just bought to replace it two years, then one or other goes. If the Jouster loses it will be a real wrench - I've been sailing her for 29 years ...

 

[sailorman]

Am I the only one sentimental enough to say yes? See:
The Amulet Story

we will give you a hearty wave nxt time we see her

 

[DanTribe]

Am I the only one sentimental enough to say yes? See:
The Amulet Story

What a priceless bit of family history!
We often passed Amulet when we had a Stella, and wrongly assumed that she was a converted Stella. I now see I was wrong.
Respect.
Dan

 

[Amulet]

What a priceless bit of family history!
We often passed Amulet when we had a Stella, and wrongly assumed that she was a converted Stella. I now see I was wrong.
Respect.
Dan

Common error to think that she's Stella. Bob Orrell - who saved her, advertised her as a Stella. And yes, as lot of Stellas do pass us - she weighs almost a ton and a half more than a Stella!