Life is full of coincidences

[longjohnsilver]

One of my best mates has just sold his Endurance 39 having lived aboard in the Med for 4 years or so. I had a quite few good times aboard in Mallorca and the Greek Islands. He brought it back to the Exe and new owner moved it to Plymouth yachthaven a few days ago. It's now on the same pontoon as our boat just 5 spaces along!! So when he comes down to go boating/diving with me he'll be passing his old boat.

Another coincidence. When he bought the boat from Southampton it was on a sales walkway and we had to pass his previous boat which he'd sold some years before to get to the endurance. And the previous boat had been sold to someone up north and was kept up that way.

It really is a small world. There's no doubt many other similar experiences.

 

[chiefeng]

Put my first boat up for sale on Boats and Outboards, only to have someone local buy it and it now stands in the same yard as my current boat! It is kind of strange passing it everytime I go to my boat.
Rgds
Bob

 

[timtap]

A couple of Years ago a Princess 55 turned up at Yacht Haven in Plymouth and the name bugged me for a few weeks co's it sounded familiar "Princess Khadija" and then the penny dropped .... Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses was driving the very same boat at the end of the episode when they finally became milionairs. It was eventually taken to Southampton for shipment to Greece I believe...
Gone but not forgot !!!!!

 

[mandlmaunder]

When we first had our boat Manatee , contacted the previous owner for some technical info ,he gave us the phone number of the marine architect that oversaw construction.
Called this chap from the trampoline, in swanick on the hard, got him only to find he was looking at the boat on the next row over.
Small world sometimes init!

 

[halcyon]

Hailed by a chap last year, who's boat was a couple of boats away in the boat yard.

Is this your boat ?

yes says I,

last time time I saw her was in Guadeloupe, we were anchored next to each other.

Small world.

Brian

 

[jwilson]

Used to keep a boat moored in Deepwater Bay in Hong kong: on the next mooring was a green double-ender. Then moved mooring to inside the typhoon shelter at Aberdeen. Years later moved back to England, to Falmouth, and bought a boat that at the time was lying in Mylor Yacht Harbour. The same green double-ender, still with the Royal Hong Kong YC registration number on the bow, was on the same pontoon.

Really funny coincidence is that in neither place have I ever seen her under sail, or even with anyone on board.

 

[longjohnsilver]

I used to go swimming in Deepwater bay in the early 70s. Lived in Stanley. But admit to not remembering any boats being moored there!

 

[Georgio]

Having agreed to purchase our Co32 I found out that the original bill of sale from the builder was dated my own date of birth.....

 

[hannahjames]

On our way home after a trip to Edinburgh my friend and I stopped to admire a painting in an art shop window... was of incoming waves on a beach by Derek Hare (print actually) We stood for a while entranced by the pic and then left for home. A couple of weeks later I met my (now) husband and he had the pic above his fireplace...

 

[longjohnsilver]

And another. After chatting yesterday to new owner of mates endurance I struck up a conversation with skipper on the boat in front of me who has only just taken up residence in the berth. Turns out he is a governor of my old school in Cheltenham. It is a small world!

 

[SirSnoozalot]

My kids were chatting in the living room the other day, and worked out that they both had the same Mother !!! That's a coincidence for a single parent today isn't it.