Orders of merit?

[ChrisE]

As we seem to be in list and orders of merit mode at the moment I was going suggest the revival of a list that was first instigated when this board started up a good few years ago.

The then forumites were trying to come to a consensus about what was the most meritious form of boat and sailing type.

From memory the 1st prize went to an engineless, batteryless, gadgetless, 100+ year old wooden boat, kept against a harbour wall above a lock at least 5 miles up some muddy East Cost creek.

It then graduated through engined, batteried, classic plastics like, ahem, a Rival 38 on a swinging mooring in a south coast river.

The dross prize went to an over gadgeted, blue-flagged, AWB kept in a marina with shore power, telephone and television links with flunkies to keep the boat looking sparkling.

I wondered if this list had changed much now.

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[Robin]

Hey! I dont HAVE any flunkies! Oh well I suppose SWMBO could flunk on occasions...

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[ChrisE]

Revised list

From memory the 1st prize went to an engineless, batteryless, gadgetless, 100+ year old wooden boat, kept against a harbour wall above a lock at least 5 miles up some muddy East Cost creek.

It then graduated through engined, batteried, classic plastics like, ahem, a Rival 38 on a swinging mooring in a south coast river.

Robin's boat got the penultimate dross prize, as it is rumoured that he has been seen with feather duster, followed by

The dross prize went to an over gadgeted, blue-flagged, AWB kept in a marina with shore power, telephone and television links with flunkies to keep the boat looking sparkling.

I wondered if this list had changed much now.

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[Evadne]

Re: Revised list

Is there an echo in here?

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[Robin]

Re: Revised list

I know, I failed to get the top dross prize, someone saw my post about scrubbing purple crap of the deck last night. It was the flunkie's night off.

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[Clive_Rigden]

I think the recent Virtual Cruise has rendered this thread redundant . . .

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[Mirelle]

Jolly good list. No need to change it

Funnily enough, I was just looking at Martin's pictures of the Maldon smack race on the Classic Boat site.

There are several contenders in Martin's album, but I reckon the Order of Merit goes to the boat in Martin's picture no 37.

She is an Albert Strange yawl*, 84 years old, she is engineless, she does not even have a mooring of her own, but sails up and down the east coast each weekend, she has never been sold, she was the original inspiration for Arthur Ransome's "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea", and as can be seen she is skippered by a Jack Russell terrier.

* People who don't know much about vintage sports cars reckon Bentleys are The Thing. People who know rather more reckon that the Vauxhall 30/98 is The Thing. People who really know, know that chain gang Frazer Nashes are The Thing.

Fifes are Bentleys.
Albert Strange yawls are chain gang Frazer Nashes.

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