A lay aboutOf course,what do you take me for
Oou, harsh!A lay about
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I was of course writing literally as in giving an accurate description of you daily activities.Vote of confidence from our French membership
I have to assume you have ample funds (like a huge trust fund..)to keep such a lovely wooden vessel in the nick it deserves, or, are about to aquire some serious skills in woodworking and fettling ancient donks
An interesting story,your friend going from a ocean racing yacht to a Scandinavian work boat must have been an interesting sailer……sort of related I am looking at a small yacht designed by Angus Primrose an associate of Illingsworth who had Myth of Malham designed by Laurent Giles,I asume Illingsworth had some sau in the rigI knew the owners of Lista Light - Lista Light website
in the 70's and 80's, when she still had her original single cylinder Wichmann semi-diesel - it was a huge beast, and the engine room of Lista Light took up a sizeable chunk of the hull length. The flywheel alone weighed well over a tonne.
She had a big controllable pitch propeller, controlled by winding a handle as per the video posted earlier, and she blew smoke rings from her exhaust......
And 3" thick pitchpine hull planking on (I think) massive sawn oak frames, that were spaced not much more than a frame width apart.
Her owner Noel (who had previously sailed Myth of Malham in the 1968 OSTAR) was the only person who had a working relationship with this engine, and it would take a few hours of preparation beforehand for him to get it ready if they wanted to go somewhere.
They sailed out to the Caribbean in the early 70's, and were resident in Bequia for some years; they returned to the Uk in 1980, and lived happily in a mud berth on the River Itchen in Southampton for a couple of years, before deciding that British winters were too cold (I remember visiting them with snow on deck, and the wonderful diesel stove in the saloon that fired the central heating creating a nice warm fug) so they returned to the Caribbean a couple of years later.
I sailed with them on the passage from Southampton to Plymouth in April - when we arrived in Plymouth Sound the next morning, we saw Atlantic Conveyor being loaded up with supplies prior to departing to join the Falklands war effort. She was later taken out by an Argentinian Exocet.
We motored most of the way, as the wind died after we left the Solent - a steady and comforting 'bonk, bonk bonk' from the engine the whole way.
She was subsequently sold, and her new owners fitted a 'modern' engine, as they did not have Noel's skills (and patience) to have a good relationship with Mr Wichmann (who could be very tempermental I gather if you were not on good terms with him).
I was very sad to read on her Facebook page last year that she was lost when she ran aground in Norderney
