MacDuff26 and care in the community

G

Gunfleet

Well-Known Member
Joined
1 Jan 2002
Messages
4,523
Location
Orwell
Visit site
I own a MacDuff 26 speedboat with sails. I only use it for my annual 30 day Spring Tide trip to Spitzbergen, though it's clear if you hang a small boy over the side for counterbalance you could cross an ocean on it. I have not done so. To my point, I am in the final stages of logorrhea, and I have noticed several of you - Boatless, Teaky Ken etc are willing to offer care in the community to rabbity old sailors. Could I have some treatment too? This seems like a nice place and so convenient too.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
John, I think youre teasing me. How can I offer you a place in the community when the warden checks all my post? TK is in solitary as a punishment for his highly publicised escape last weekend.

Glad to hear that you're enjoying your new boat. Expect you got to Cherbourg pretty quickly, although not sure which of the two cruises you were on.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Glad to see someone else has bought into the future of sailing.

I'm currently having a water-ballasted International 14-based kite sailer built from various bits of old teak I happened to having laying around. It'll have a pair of 250 horse Evinrudes, one at the bow and one at the stern, to retain balance. The bow one will, I'm sure, run perfectly in reverse. Only problem so far is that once I've got the weather forecasting station installed, I can't figure out how to provide tanks for more than 3.86 litres of 2-stroke mix, but what the heck, people told Pete Goss that Philips Innovator would never work, and now they've got egg on their chins.

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.writeforweb.com/twister1>Let's Twist Again</A>
 
Hm, from the concise nature of your post I think you may be well on the way to being cured. The next stage is that it may fleetingly occur to you that your boat is not actually the most advanced and innovative on the planet, and actually a bit horrid and plasticky. Let us know if this happens.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Dratsie
We cruised past Scotland at 50 knots. Nothing there much impressed me, I think it's overrated. I notice you have one of those Contessa 26s. It'll never amount to anything.
Yours
Plum McDuff

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re conciseness/logorrhea

My Nurse takes dictation and says she has to edit me because she doesn't have much ink in her pen while I have no lead in my pencil. At least I think it was that way round.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
I am trading up, I have read all the arguments and I am convinced. How I missed the fact I am in the dark ages with my chosen vessel is beyond me.

I will therefore become top dog on this forum, as I will represent the future of sailing. I will be starting my world cruise shortly after purchase, I am still looking for somewhere on board to store my trailer.

I do like the modification of mounting an engine on the bow, I am going to ask about this on our personal support forums. For my world cruise I was thinking how fabulous the water storage is on board, she has built in fresh water tanks, even her sister ship Mirabella V does not have the same water storage as my new ship.

I am also going to call my self Captain, as that seems appropriate.

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.topcatsail.co.uk>Woof</A>
 
Hmm, I believe another poster hereabouts, contemplated a partial conversion along these lines (JeremyF or W, cant quite remember now), in that he enquired about chopping his transom and fitting a couple of large Honda outboards to enable him to plane along at a great rate of knots. However, I think he had second thoughts in the end.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
So glad you didna stop when passing Scotland.. It is a worthless piece of coastline and really only gets in the way..

As for the boat.. I intend to wreck it next summer and replace with rib :) I have heard that Nicholson were also deluded into making small 26 footers.. I think it's high time anything that cannot go at 50 knots was banned from coastal waters.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Grumpy old raggie replies

Well that's a real case for survival of the fitist then isn't it!

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Aha so you have grabbed ze zpin, zis is not ze care in der community, although it gives the impression of such .. we just give our nutters MacDuff26's, enough petrol for 25 miles and haf confidence in ra final solution! Saves ze money in the long run .. cost of Maduff26 £10K care of nutter pa £60K ie 2month pay back! Cracking investment.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Listen, what's so sick about providing the non-productive members of society with a MacDuff26 each and a passage plan to Spain?

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top