JumbleDuck
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I still have a Thomas Foulkes canvas bucket on the boat. My anchor buoy and tripping line live in it. I also have, somewhere, a swatch of barrage balloon material (aluminised egyptian cotton) from them.
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I still have a Thomas Foulkes canvas bucket on the boat. My anchor buoy and tripping line live in it. I also have, somewhere, a swatch of barrage balloon material (aluminised egyptian cotton) from them.
dancrane
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On Sunday, I thought someone at Netley must have insisted on starting an outboard, before agreeing to buy what might be a dud...
...there was a fair bit of noise, then clouds of blue smoke...but I really want to see the yacht they'll be using it on.
...there was a fair bit of noise, then clouds of blue smoke...but I really want to see the yacht they'll be using it on.
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Dan Tribe
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Thomas Folkestone had some great sales comments in his catalogues.
Two from memory.
Ex MOD Western desert sand goggles. Very useful for sailing in dusty conditions.
Wim Woms (a clip on a circle of wire) I've no idea what these are, but they must be handy for something.
Seajet
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Yes I did. :encouragement:
weustace
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Books...
Thread drift and then some, but you've asked for it now... in no particular order:
I greatly enjoyed Griff Rhys-Jones' "To the Baltic with Bob" (incidentally he has since sold the beautiful Undina, star of "Three Men in another Boat" and replaced her with a rather nice S&S yawl, around 65' if I recall—very nice too, if you can run to it...). He recounts the "learning curve" he experienced in buying a classic wooden boat, having it refurbished, and sailing it to St Petersburg (via a classic regatta in the Baltic). The crew consists, among others, of the eponymous (and rather incompetent) Bob...
Another good read is Justin Ruthven-Tyers' two sailing books, "Phoenix from the Ashes" and "Canvas flying, seagulls crying"—after his house burned down, he and his wife decided to build a wooden boat and live aboard that instead. The books catalogue their various adventures in a generally amusing and readable manner.
Yet another is "Three Ways to Capsize a Boat" ('An Optimist Afloat'), by Chris Stewart. He recounts the (unfortunate) start of his sailing career, rapidly followed by a Comp Crew/DS course instructed by Tom Cunliffe; this later turns into an important thread, when Cunliffe invited the author aboard his pilot cutter for a 5-month trip round the Norwegian coast, up to Iceland and thence to Newfoundland. This takes up much of the remaining story, and the whole thing is recounted with a healthy splash both of nautical authenticity and of humour.
Though arguably a racing book, Sam Jefferson's "Gordon Bennett" was both amusing and historically informative. It covers "the first" yacht race across the Atlantic, and the many colourful characters thus encountered.
To stretch the connection a little further still, what about Charlie Connelly's "Attention All Shipping"—no yachting per se, but he tours the areas of the shipping forecast. Quite entertaining trip in which one feels one is very much in the pocket of the author—very good read.
I think that should be enough to wedge one end of your new shelves up...
Though by no means recent, anyone on here who has not done so should read Francis Cooke's "In Tidal Waters"—a rip-roaringly hilarious account of the author's (mis)adventures around the Thames Estuary and East Coast. I'm not certain, but I assume there must be some law which says such a bookshelf must also feature "Three Men in a Boat"! Arthur Ransome's cruising diaries, "Racundra's First Cruise" and "Racundra's Third Cruise", though much less humorous, are worth a read.
Judging at least by Cooke's account, perhaps the reason for the decline in humorous sailing texts in recent years is that the typical yacht is much better prepared for the conditions it meets; this, combined with the increase in average yacht size and much better forecasting, must surely reduce the opportunity for levity. At least a modern reader must chuckle at the off-hand manner in which Cooke mournfully comments "At this point the jib sheet parted" etc.
Thread drift and then some, but you've asked for it now... in no particular order:
I greatly enjoyed Griff Rhys-Jones' "To the Baltic with Bob" (incidentally he has since sold the beautiful Undina, star of "Three Men in another Boat" and replaced her with a rather nice S&S yawl, around 65' if I recall—very nice too, if you can run to it...). He recounts the "learning curve" he experienced in buying a classic wooden boat, having it refurbished, and sailing it to St Petersburg (via a classic regatta in the Baltic). The crew consists, among others, of the eponymous (and rather incompetent) Bob...
Another good read is Justin Ruthven-Tyers' two sailing books, "Phoenix from the Ashes" and "Canvas flying, seagulls crying"—after his house burned down, he and his wife decided to build a wooden boat and live aboard that instead. The books catalogue their various adventures in a generally amusing and readable manner.
Yet another is "Three Ways to Capsize a Boat" ('An Optimist Afloat'), by Chris Stewart. He recounts the (unfortunate) start of his sailing career, rapidly followed by a Comp Crew/DS course instructed by Tom Cunliffe; this later turns into an important thread, when Cunliffe invited the author aboard his pilot cutter for a 5-month trip round the Norwegian coast, up to Iceland and thence to Newfoundland. This takes up much of the remaining story, and the whole thing is recounted with a healthy splash both of nautical authenticity and of humour.
Though arguably a racing book, Sam Jefferson's "Gordon Bennett" was both amusing and historically informative. It covers "the first" yacht race across the Atlantic, and the many colourful characters thus encountered.
To stretch the connection a little further still, what about Charlie Connelly's "Attention All Shipping"—no yachting per se, but he tours the areas of the shipping forecast. Quite entertaining trip in which one feels one is very much in the pocket of the author—very good read.
I think that should be enough to wedge one end of your new shelves up...
Though by no means recent, anyone on here who has not done so should read Francis Cooke's "In Tidal Waters"—a rip-roaringly hilarious account of the author's (mis)adventures around the Thames Estuary and East Coast. I'm not certain, but I assume there must be some law which says such a bookshelf must also feature "Three Men in a Boat"! Arthur Ransome's cruising diaries, "Racundra's First Cruise" and "Racundra's Third Cruise", though much less humorous, are worth a read.
Judging at least by Cooke's account, perhaps the reason for the decline in humorous sailing texts in recent years is that the typical yacht is much better prepared for the conditions it meets; this, combined with the increase in average yacht size and much better forecasting, must surely reduce the opportunity for levity. At least a modern reader must chuckle at the off-hand manner in which Cooke mournfully comments "At this point the jib sheet parted" etc.
Seajet
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Re: Books...
Agreed, and other books I'd recommnend; ' My Lively Lady ' - Alec Rose, ' A Fighting Chance ' - Chay Blythe & John Ridgeway, ' Once is Enough ' by Miles Smeeton.
Agreed, and other books I'd recommnend; ' My Lively Lady ' - Alec Rose, ' A Fighting Chance ' - Chay Blythe & John Ridgeway, ' Once is Enough ' by Miles Smeeton.
dancrane
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Re: Books...
Re. Eustace's list...I suppose there's more literary mileage nowadays in humorous ill-advised misadventures by doubtfully competent skippers, than tedious tales of viceless performance, acute judgement and perfect weather.
Anybody know The Old Fort, at Seaview? Good menu and views, but even if you don't look outside, the walls are papered with old Admiralty charts. That has to be the most enduringly interesting wall-covering for the smallest room in Zoidberg's (or anyone's) house.
Re. Eustace's list...I suppose there's more literary mileage nowadays in humorous ill-advised misadventures by doubtfully competent skippers, than tedious tales of viceless performance, acute judgement and perfect weather.
Anybody know The Old Fort, at Seaview? Good menu and views, but even if you don't look outside, the walls are papered with old Admiralty charts. That has to be the most enduringly interesting wall-covering for the smallest room in Zoidberg's (or anyone's) house.
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AndrewB
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Re: Books...
No harm in a bit of thread-drift, but did you know there is subforum here for recommending and discussing books about sailing?
http://www.ybw.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?59-The-Book-Club
No harm in a bit of thread-drift, but did you know there is subforum here for recommending and discussing books about sailing?
http://www.ybw.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?59-The-Book-Club
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weustace
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Re: Books...
Noted, thanks
No harm in a bit of thread-drift, but did you know there is subforum here for recommending and discussing books about sailing?
http://www.ybw.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?59-The-Book-Club
Dan Tribe
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Re: Books...
I went to a Steeleye Span concert on Sunday. I think I must have been one of the youngest, nobody under 70.
Even Maddy Prior is older than me.
I went to a Steeleye Span concert on Sunday. I think I must have been one of the youngest, nobody under 70.
Even Maddy Prior is older than me.
KINGFISHER 8
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Re: Books...
What is a steeleye span and do I need one for the boat?
What is a steeleye span and do I need one for the boat?
Seajet
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Maybe, for under the mast - but you definitely need a Hawkwind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSR5TnNGKmo
Maybe, for under the mast - but you definitely need a Hawkwind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSR5TnNGKmo
solent clown
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unless it is heavily galvanised, back away from the steeleye.
As for Spam, it is obviously typo on Spam. Spam good.
Spam on boat very good
LOVE SPAM
unless it is heavily galvanised, back away from the steeleye.
As for Spam, it is obviously typo on Spam. Spam good.
Spam on boat very good
LOVE SPAM
newtothis
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Hawkwind... rubbish until Lemmy fired the band and renamed it Motorhead.
DownWest
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Re: Books...
Are you some form of 'prevert'? (queue Dr. Strangelove)
The Art of Course Sailing finally disintergrated on a X channel trip in the 60s, after being often read. I do have on the shelf a book about 'Old Harry', with Peyton's cartoons. Fine stuff. And, somewhere, an american one, with a double spinnaker on the cover, with the caption 'I got the idea after watching a Marelyn Monroe film.'
DW
As for Thomas Foulkes, we were frequent customers when they were in Leytonstone. One of the products were static lines for parachute drops. Nice webbing, so I was delegated to cut the stiching out from the layers and produce single thickness for toe straps on the dinghys.
Now I do feel old!
Anybody else buy an ex army hand bearing compass, with folding prism and oil damped card? for about 2s&6p? Try finding one now...
Are you some form of 'prevert'? (queue Dr. Strangelove)
The Art of Course Sailing finally disintergrated on a X channel trip in the 60s, after being often read. I do have on the shelf a book about 'Old Harry', with Peyton's cartoons. Fine stuff. And, somewhere, an american one, with a double spinnaker on the cover, with the caption 'I got the idea after watching a Marelyn Monroe film.'
DW
As for Thomas Foulkes, we were frequent customers when they were in Leytonstone. One of the products were static lines for parachute drops. Nice webbing, so I was delegated to cut the stiching out from the layers and produce single thickness for toe straps on the dinghys.
Now I do feel old!
Anybody else buy an ex army hand bearing compass, with folding prism and oil damped card? for about 2s&6p? Try finding one now...
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dancrane
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Re: Books...
Thelwell...brilliant.
Thelwell...brilliant.
mjcoon
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Re: Books...
That second cartoon is a colour version of one in "Three Sheets in the Wind" by Thelwell, which is B&W and shows a cruise liner instead of fishing boat as the observer. The caption is "That was a near thing, Mavis"...
Mike.
Thelwell...brilliant.
That second cartoon is a colour version of one in "Three Sheets in the Wind" by Thelwell, which is B&W and shows a cruise liner instead of fishing boat as the observer. The caption is "That was a near thing, Mavis"...
Mike.
dancrane
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Nice.
I had Three Sheets in the Wind, 35 years ago, just a black and white paperback. I don't actually remember that cartoon, though.
I liked the couple sitting high on the bow of a rapidly sinking trailer-sailer...he says to her, "remember that crump, at the traffic lights?"
Nice.
I had Three Sheets in the Wind, 35 years ago, just a black and white paperback. I don't actually remember that cartoon, though.
I liked the couple sitting high on the bow of a rapidly sinking trailer-sailer...he says to her, "remember that crump, at the traffic lights?"
mjcoon
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Googling has revealed that it is replicated in http://spmbc.org.au/newsletter/2014/BW_Summer_2014.pdf
I have put a pirated image of another, relevant, cartoon from that book in the "Does Back Pain effect your ability to go boating?" thread...
Mike.
Nice.
I had Three Sheets in the Wind, 35 years ago, just a black and white paperback. I don't actually remember that cartoon, though.
Googling has revealed that it is replicated in http://spmbc.org.au/newsletter/2014/BW_Summer_2014.pdf
I have put a pirated image of another, relevant, cartoon from that book in the "Does Back Pain effect your ability to go boating?" thread...
Mike.
dancrane
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Re: Books...
Thanks Mike, several old funnies in that link...I must find a copy of the book.
Actually the cartoon with the couple blaming a traffic accident for their boat sinking, isn't among those in your link.
I believe it was in the June 1972 Punch magazine, "Sport for the hell of it", but I can't find the cartoon online. I've spent a good hour looking!
Thanks Mike, several old funnies in that link...I must find a copy of the book.
Actually the cartoon with the couple blaming a traffic accident for their boat sinking, isn't among those in your link.
I believe it was in the June 1972 Punch magazine, "Sport for the hell of it", but I can't find the cartoon online. I've spent a good hour looking!