MAB V AWB

[lustyd]

It doesn't actually matter whether the person ribbing you considers your boat a MAB or an AWB - you're damned either way!

As demonstrated nicely with my ribbing of Concerto on the thread, he was proud of his MAB and I accused him of having an AWB Just forum banter as long as anchors don't come into it, everyone knows a CQR will only hold a MAB

 

[Whaup367]

The test is, when people walk by one's yacht, do they turn and look at it (admiringly).

Even when the varnish is peeling off, the deck needs painting, the fenders are grubby. the crew look like down-and-outs (no prizes for guessing which boat might I be thinking of? ) do they say, as they often do to me in Brittany, "Un très joli bateau, monsieur".

We should popularise the usage: after all many aspire to own a "TJB", of any age... I wonder what the "correct" english translation would be. Fine Looking Yacht, perhaps?

 

[Poignard]

We should popularise the usage: after all many aspire to own a "TJB", of any age... I wonder what the "correct" english translation would be. Fine Looking Yacht, perhaps?

Nothing so grand, just "A very pretty boat, sir."

And so she is! Even though I say so myself.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

They say that to us in Brittany, the spiritual home of the trimaran.

 

[Supertramp]

As demonstrated nicely with my ribbing of Concerto on the thread, he was proud of his MAB and I accused him of having an AWB Just forum banter as long as anchors don't come into it, everyone knows a CQR will only hold a MAB

Alas, you've found me out!

I shall have to get a new anchor or risk being labelled. Trouble is I can't decide what type to replace it with, or what size. Or how many.....

 

[Tranona]

An Epsilon will fit nicely there, although the tip might try to make friends with your bobstay. Suspect some other NG anchors would do the same

 

[Frogmogman]

The test is, when people walk by one's yacht, do they turn and look at it (admiringly).

Even when the varnish is peeling off, the deck needs painting, the fenders are grubby. the crew look like down-and-outs (no prizes for guessing which boat might I be thinking of? ) do they say, as they often do to me in Brittany, "Un très joli bateau, monsieur".

Dare I say, Bretons are true connoisseurs of MABs.

….and trimarans.

 

[rotrax]

A memorable line from Sam Llewellyn :-

" My mate dave came with me to view it. I was in good hands. Dave was a connoiseur of the derelict...................."

I like that!

 

[Chiara’s slave]

A memorable line from Sam Llewellyn :-

" My mate dave came with me to view it. I was in good hands. Dave was a connoiseur of the derelict...................."

I like that!

I don’t think I’ve bought a boat, apart from 2 of our beach cats, that weren’t at least semi derelict. My wife feels sorry for them. Stemar might be familiar with the state of our current boat, it came from Hardway. Our previous Dragonfly was in a scrap yard on Canvey Island, propped up on oil drums.

 

[rotrax]

Another one in a similar vein was about a Velocette motorbike. By a well respected contributor to Cyril Ayton's 'Motorcycle Sport' magazine who went by the initals "P.A.D."

"The first time I saw the Velo it was on the back of a pick up truck, along with a load of domestic rubbish. I thought I would save it from a sad demise at the local tip. It was only after money had changed hands that I discovered it had already been to the tip and was on its way back, having suffered a severe rebuff!"

 

[Lightwave395]

Nothing so grand, just "A very pretty boat, sir."

And so she is! Even though I say so myself.

I don't think my boat is an AWB or a MAB, more likely something in between but I do get random complimentary visits from passing Frenchman on the pontoon who comment what a lovely boat and how they like her, even from the travelift operator at Arzal, despite being a 34 year old comfortable ex-race boat.

 

[Poignard]

I don't think my boat is an AWB or a MAB, more likely something in between but I do get random complimentary visits from passing Frenchman on the pontoon who comment what a lovely boat and how they like her, even from the travelift operator at Arzal, despite being a 34 year old comfortable ex-race boat.

Picture?

 

[rotrax]

Well, mine-sorry, 'ours'- is most definitely an "ACCB*", not an "AWB".

Wether its manky or not I leave to the viewers.









* All Custard Cream Boat.

 

[Lightwave395]

Picture?

 

[Poignard]

Nice sleek lines.

 

[Lightwave395]

Nice sleek lines.

The boat's not bad either...!

 

[Supertramp]

A well cared for and attractive yacht that I'm sure is well used. No need for acronyms or abbreviations

 

[James_Calvert]

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At the risk of stating the obvious,

That's a BLUE boat, so outwith the current definition debate.

As I recall it, this repartee started here, in this very forum some years ago. When all the current new cruiser offerings from the French and German builders looked much the same.

Then someone from above the border started dissing the older, mainly British, ubiquitous designs.

 

[Frogmogman]

At the risk of stating the obvious,

That's a BLUE boat, so outwith the current definition debate.

As I recall it, this repartee started here, in this very forum some years ago. When all the current new cruiser offerings from the French and German builders looked much the same.

Then someone from above the border started dissing the older, mainly British, ubiquitous designs.

TBF, there’s nothing that disqualifies a blue boat from being a MAB.

Not that I’m suggesting that there’s anything manky about Lightwave 395’s boat. It looks lovely, I’m just talking in the abstract.

 

[James_Calvert]

TBF, there’s nothing that disqualifies a blue boat from being a MAB.

Not that I’m suggesting that there’s anything manky about Lightwave 395’s boat. It looks lovely, I’m just talking in the abstract.

You're correct, both about MABs and Lightwave's boat.

If I remember correctly, the original victim of the MAB soubriquet was a Sea Dog....

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Still about and not necessarily manky!