Nicholson 55 - ‘Adventure’

[capnsensible]

Ex Quailo III, now again Quailo III, lives in the Hamble. In extremely good hands. I know the owner and have sailed on her quite recently.

After departing La Coruna in my previous post our next stop was Cherbourg. I spotted a chap wandering up and down looking keenly. Was the original owner. So we invited him onboard. Party. He was chuffed to bits, old name plate still (I think) near the mast in the saloon.

We were clearly fully crewed and everyone go to dislike the No. 2 Genoa, flippin heavy. So when the chap told us how he had sailed the yacht two handed around the UK in a race I must say we had a very impressed crew. As I recall he had more than 12 sails and used the lot. Quite something for that era with traditional navigation and hanked on sails.

A yacht that I' ll always have great memories of. We were actually on the way from the Azores so it was my first long trip on a small (relative!) boat.

 

[sarabande]

Yes Quailo series of yachts for Don Parr were always well sailed and competitive. Admiral's Cup boat in the years I was competing. His first one had a large wooden half shelter over the cockpit and was the envy of the rest of the fleet stuck out on the weather rail.

 

[springer]

Mid 1970s, Adventure cruise: Gosport - Poole- brest, St PeterPort & back to Gosport, Skipper, Mate 5 Wrens, and 5 Matelots. Great weather, better run ashore on Poole Quay. Hangovers at dawn for a long leg down to Brest. Another fine run ashore in Brest and off back towards St Peter Port. Shortly after leaving sudden squall blew out genoa, skipper muttered something about budget. Reefed down with gale on the nose back to Guernsey. Wrens bunk bound and seasick along with a couple of the jack tars, skipper navigating from his bunk and the remainder standing watch on watch off, loadsa' fun. Dried everything out in St Peter Port before pleasant sail back to Gosport. Epic amounts of alcohol consumed, salt over every possible surface, suitably washed off of course. 1 x Black bucket and 1 x fender lost during M O B exercises. No 1 genoa in shreds, I think otherwise all survived remarkably well. I think we all remained on speaking terms.

 

[NDG]

Ex Quailo III, now again Quailo III, lives in the Hamble. In extremely good hands. I know the owner and have sailed on her quite recently. Now green, to match the original green, found under the red.

I sailed on British Soldier a couple of times in the mid ‘80s, down the North Sea and again out to Portugal. A fantastic boat and some good memories. I always remember a brief Spinnaker race with a Spanish offshore racing boat which we randomly encountered in the middle of Biscay which got so competitive that their boom briefly became firmly entangled with our spinnaker pole, which was a squeaky moment in two powerful boats 100 miles offshore. Happy days!

 

[Kukri]

Let’s have another snap of Quailo III.

 

[eburist]

Hello, Dears!
Sorry for my English, I'm "Kazakh".
I "want to please" you with the current state of "Adventure".
I remember the first meeting at the 146th Naval Yacht Club of the Leningrad Naval Base in 2004. Everything used to be... Navy cadets participated in "Adventure" races, participated in TSR, went hiking outside the Russian Federation... but at that time "Adventure" was part of the Navy under the number YK-50.
In 2011, through some machinations, it was transferred to the use of the army sports club "CSKA" (today a commercial organization for enriching retired military of the highest rank from captain of the first rank and above), where it was successfully dismantled and scrapped.
Since 2020, it has been standing on the shore:
without a propeller;
without a mast (the spreader was broken during disassembly);
without an engine;
navigation and ship systems to tear up by the roots.
There is no steering wheel, hatches, portholes, winches. There is water in the hold - the smell is appropriate, mold on the ceiling...

 

[eburist]

that's how we live

 

[Concerto]

What a crying shame to see such a beautiful yacht is such a state of negelect.

 

[Mark-1]

Hello, Dears!
Sorry for my English, I'm "Kazakh".
I "want to please" you with the current state of "Adventure".
I remember the first meeting at the 146th Naval Yacht Club of the Leningrad Naval Base in 2004. Everything used to be... Navy cadets participated in "Adventure" races, participated in TSR, went hiking outside the Russian Federation... but at that time "Adventure" was part of the Navy under the number YK-50.
In 2011, through some machinations, it was transferred to the use of the army sports club "CSKA" (today a commercial organization for enriching retired military of the highest rank from captain of the first rank and above), where it was successfully dismantled and scrapped.
Since 2020, it has been standing on the shore:
without a propeller;
without a mast (the spreader was broken during disassembly);
without an engine;
navigation and ship systems to tear up by the roots.
There is no steering wheel, hatches, portholes, winches. There is water in the hold - the smell is appropriate, mold on the ceiling...

Thanks for sharing!

 

[eburist]

I made a mistake, the "Adventure" has not been on the water since 2018. I took these photos from the board of the "Adventure" in 2006

 

[Greenwichman]

I made a mistake, the "Adventure" has not been on the water since 2018. I took these photos from the board of the "Adventure" in 2006

Thank you for sharing the pics. Sorry to hear that the boat is no longer in sea-going shape. I sailed in her 50 years ago, in the first Whitbread Round the World Race. Age takes a toll on boats (and people!). Age and neglect are a lethal combination. The ship's cat looks content, though.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Thank you for sharing the pics. Sorry to hear that the boat is no longer in sea-going shape. I sailed in her 50 years ago, in the first Whitbread Round the World Race. Age takes a toll on boats (and people!). Age and neglect are a lethal combination. The ship's cat looks content, though.

When I was skipper of HMSTY ADVENTURE in Transglobe people approached me saying they remembered that race and the crew.

 

[eburist]

Thank you for sharing the pics. Sorry to hear that the boat is no longer in sea-going shape. I sailed in her 50 years ago, in the first Whitbread Round the World Race. Age takes a toll on boats (and people!). Age and neglect are a lethal combination. The ship's cat looks content, though.

from the book: "Previously, ships were made of wood, but people are made of iron, and now ships are made of iron, but people are made of paper" (с) to the "cska" bosses I would say from toilet paper...
The ship's cat Musya goes to sea with us on yachts and boats and eats a lot of fish.
offtop why the "upload photo" pedal disappeared

 

[RunAgroundHard]

And here's a pic of the boat visiting Gosport in 2013...

An interesting post by a military interested in defeating National Socialism.

 

[eburist]

An interesting pose by a military interested in defeating National Socialism.

today they are no longer military, retired limp bodies ... now the head of the sports yacht club to whom the "Adventure" is transferred - hockey player

25,06,2005 The start of the "100-Nm" race, the "Adventure" was the judging vessel, gave the start and went the distance