Morning Cloud

ah, i think the crew mutinied and the skipper called a democratic vote on the question of "who's the flippin skipper?", which the skipper lost. The boat was then consumed by a roaring inflation in the 1970's.
 
There were several. The She36 went to Guernsey, I think, and was renamed Early Dew.

Hosea 6 "for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away."


I was delivering another Class One from Burnham to Cowes, when Mr Heath lost MC 3 with several crew. We had set out 3 hours later, and decided off N Foreland that we didnt like the forecast,a nd went home. The next week we sailed in tranquility through the Owers, and left some flowers for friendship.

The loss of crew and family knocked the stuffing out of an incredibly kind and generous man.
 
well one of them sank in the channel somewhere i think it was morning cloud three
ted heath's nephew was lost i think it was en route to a race
it was covered in Oween Parker's book
what became of the other boats i have no idea
 
I think the one I remember was about the same size as Dark Horse and possibly raced together. I remember Ted fondly, he always waved when passing, he was obviously a man who loved to sail!
 
Opposition....K3266
opposition_3.jpg

Has been on the Clyde for some years now.

Donald
 
MC2, I remember her well. Sparkman and Stevens design, a real lead mine. Mr Heath's first purpose built racer. How good to see her lines model, I thought it was still in the RORC, but it might be a different one.
 
Thanks Aja, Thought she looked familiar - I crewed on a yacht which competed against Opposition, Prospect of Whitby etc. during the Royal Northern races in the 70's - Much hilarity at the time re : the name (Opposition) as then very topical !
Course they went like stink & left us tiddlers behind. Much impressed that their skippers stayed in hotels though & left the crews to rot....well, mature in fine whisky anyway. Post race events always a great (black tie of course) occasion.
Are they still ?
 
She's an S&S 40

She has been on the Clyde for at least 15 years. Still in remarkably good condition.

Based Kip with a mooring at Colintraive and Tarbert (loch Fyne).

Donald
 
Royal Northern (and Clyde) don't do so many races for this type of yacht, they cater for the one-design fleets. In fact they are hosting the Centennial 8m World Championships this year. That will definitely be a black tie do!

The Clyde Cruising Club now do the serious passage racing and Offshore championships on the Clyde which are still good fun. CCC Prizegiving is still black tie with plenty of the silver stuff to go around.

Think the owners is a merchant banker (something todo with Bell Lawrie) and pretty sure he doesn't stay aboard. She's still doing Scottish Series event but no longer the fastest boat on the pond.....

Donald
 
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Ted Heath opened our club marina. Unlike our top table club officers he arrived looking fairly casual with yotty shoes on and in his official speech and plaque unveiling remarked that he didn't know how we could all still afford to go sailing at all under Mrs Thatcher... Politics apart he was a very likeable man in my opinion.

I thought the first Morning Cloud was an S&S34 BTW not a She36.

Added comment:-

As an ex- Prime Minister he left a personal legacy of a Sydney Hobart win and an Admirals Cup Team win, something to be proud of as well as what he did in the clasical music field.

Blair on the other hand will leave us with a sour taste in the mouth.
 
Yes.. I also heard that according to the sale contracts, the name could not be used.... Ted also kept his number through most of his boats, K2468.... one I could always remember!

One year on the LTSC Hamble Scramble, a few of us 'youngsters' ran off with the RAFYC ensign off their flagpole and hoisted it up Morning Star's mast! There was hell to pay and the LTSC was almost banned from staying there again, but Ted saw the funny side!

Used to see him staying at Daisy May's home (Berthons) when he was racing in Lymington and he always spent time in drinking in the LTSC as well as the RLYC... liked the odd pint of lager.... nice chap.

Best memory was of his RN warships shadowing him whenever he was racing, which made life interesting when we were racing against him offshore as we simply looked for the rather noticable Frigate or Mine Hunter to see which route Morning Cloud was taking!
 
Damn ! Someone else found out our little strategem ! We used to tune a radio to the radar frequency or something, and use the Gonio loop aerial to give us a direct line on the boat - until our skipper found out and banned us !
 
You could never get decent Stilton in the RSrnYC when TH was there, they saved it for him.

Once saw MC sailed up the Hamble under spinnaker alone. Just off her berth on an inside finger at Port Hamble they doused the kite and used the momentum to carry them through a 180 turn and stop neatly alongside. Well impressed. And then Yeoman came along and did exactly the same. At the time, they were both vying for a place on the Admiral's cup team.
 
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