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What has happened to Gipsy Moth??
There has been no news from her for ages and the website updates were last updated in october and they now seem to be selling holidays on the boat.

All well and good for people and companies who have donated their time and money towards the project!
 
Actually I would be happy for PBO and YM to go a few months without any more filler articles on this boat - four page articles about how a crew of disadvantaged kids coped with a boat that doesn't sail very well. Believe me, I've got the point.

A great bunch of skilled tradespeople saved an important piece of our maritime history; but ANY magazine article is guaranteed to tell me:

1. It rolls a lot
2. It helps disadvantaged kids mature and discover talents they didn't know they had
3. It visits some really exotic places
4. err, did I mention it rolls a lot?

That's enough GMIV articles please ed
 
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1. It rolls a lot
4. err, did I mention it rolls a lot?


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Give them a break, it is only a monomaran after all.
 
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1. It rolls a lot
4. err, did I mention it rolls a lot? [unquote]

Co-incidence that, I seem to remember reading that in the original book - same with Lively Lady & Alec Rose too. I wonder if it has anything to do with leaving the marina?
 
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Give them a break, it is only a monomaran after all.

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What you grinning at? They are just lucky it aint a CATAMORON! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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What you grinning at? They are just lucky it aint a CATAMORON! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Try it before you mock, but if you want to stay in your half boat, dont let your wife anywhere near one /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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What you grinning at? They are just lucky it aint a CATAMORON! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Try it before you mock, but if you want to stay in your half boat, dont let your wife anywhere near one /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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I have tried it, and it's the only bloody thing I have ever bin seasick in! Awful motion in a seaway! Wife aint in the equation either, I sail single handed. I never could get used to bearing away instead of luffing up. Also, to my eyes most of 'em look like caravans, and I hate caravans! more than even Jeremy Clarkeson. I do like the look of some Wharrams though. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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I do like the look of some Wharrams though.

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Hmmmm! Because of the boat or because of the crew as promulgated by My W? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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Wooooooosh! there it goes! right over me bleedin 'ead /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
James is also known for his'alternative' lifestyle!

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James Wharram designed his first offshore cruising catamaran, the 23' 6" TANGAROA in 1953, before the word catamaran was yet in common use and began sailing with her off the coast of Britain with a two girl crew.


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James
 
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I have tried it, and it's the only bloody thing I have ever bin seasick in! Awful motion in a seaway! Wife aint in the equation either, I sail single handed. I never could get used to bearing away instead of luffing up. Also, to my eyes most of 'em look like caravans, and I hate caravans! more than even Jeremy Clarkeson. I do like the look of some Wharrams though.

[/ QUOTE ] It isn't for everyone, sometimes they are harder to sail because you have to concentrate on what the boat is saying, when the 30 degree angle of a mono is screeming at you! And the motion on a few cats makes some people sick. On the other hand there are more advantages than I could 'shake a stick at'. The overriding benefit is that my family love it. I like sailing single handed sometimes - but my wife and children love sailing as much as I do now that we have a multihull.
 
Each to their own Simon......each to their own /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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