My Pride & Joy!

[DogStar]

[image]http://arweb.co.uk/argallery/Boaters2/cowes0401[/image]

Well, here she is, sitting on the visitors pontoon before the wash from a ship ripped a fairlead out! She now has a few scrapes and bumps from some heavy weather off foreland, but she's now in South Dock. She's leaking, but she's here!



<hr width=100% size=1>I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by DogStar on 18/05/2004 11:20 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[jhr]

I wanna see this........

Lovely jubbly. Not an ex Admiralty pinnace, is she?

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[BrendanS]

Cool!

<hr width=100% size=1>Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

 

[DogStar]

Re: I wanna see this........

She is indeed! Circa 1920's, I believe. She's the only 40 footer I've seen that isn't an open passenger boat. I'm picking up the photos from the journey back (Cowes-Shoreham-Dover-London) in about half an hour, so I shall scan some of those too.

<hr width=100% size=1>I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!

 

[Planty]

Lovely looking piece of kit, you'd be right to be chuffed!
Was that the same wash Power Skipper posted about yesterday?? Paul

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[jhr]

Re: I wanna see this........

I thought I recognised the lines.

When I was a kid, in the late '60s, we had a 52' X 12' pinnace which had been converted into a motor yacht, complete with a small bridge (and flag locker!). The engine room was something else and I think was the real reason my old man bought her - a big Gardner diesel in the middle and a Lister generator to one side. Sleeping on board was always a bit of a challenge, with condensation dripping on you from all directions, and she rolled like a pig, but she always felt safe. I have lots of happy memories.

Have fun!

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[DogStar]

Re: I wanna see this........

Thanks, all. Yes, that was pretty much the same spot as Powerskipper mentioned, the wash is terrible. She does roll, like you say, jfm, but still feels safe. I found knowing there are three layers of good old Empire hardwood planking between me and the sea very reassuring! I found being mostly invisible to radar quite the opposite, esp. in 1 cable vis off Selsey Bill!

I didn'e expect the oldest boat I've driven to be the easiest to handle. Love her to bits.

<hr width=100% size=1>I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!

 

[DogStar]

Re: I wanna see this........

Now lets try adding a couple more. It make take somebody else's input to get them to actually show, but here goes....

[image]http://arweb.co.uk/argallery/Boaters2/cowes03[/image]

[image]http://arweb.co.uk/argallery/Boaters2/dawn01[/image]

[image]http://arweb.co.uk/argallery/Boaters2/dovercastle[/image]

[image]http://arweb.co.uk/argallery/Boaters2/eastthames[/image]

[image]http://arweb.co.uk/argallery/Boaters2/shorhmatdawn[/image]

Phew! that was almost as much work as bringing the boat back.

<hr width=100% size=1>I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!


I give up. It makes no sense. Cut 'n paste it is!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by DogStar on 18/05/2004 15:37 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[jhr]

Re: I wanna see this........

I think the url is incomplete and that you need to add .sized.jpg to each one, eg

http://arweb.co.uk/aralbums/Boaters2/dawn01.sized.jpg

Viz:

and Robert's yer father's brother.

<hr width=100% size=1>Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Wow, thats brilliant!

<hr width=100% size=1>Madoc Yacht Club
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.madocyachtclub.co.uk>http://www.madocyachtclub.co.uk</A>

 

[DogStar]

Re: I wanna see this........

Thanks jhr!

This was opposite the fuel barge at Cowes.

Dover at dawn.

First sight of London! Yay, nor more waves (other than propwash)!

This was having arrived at Shoreham after 8 hours at half throttle in thick fog.
Just a shame I was actually aiming for Ramsgate.

<hr width=100% size=1>I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by DogStar on 19/05/2004 12:01 (server time).</FONT></P>