Retro Hamble Christmas Card - Mercury & Port Hamble

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Rank Marine Organisation Christmas Card... circa 1975..., yes something I had squirrelled away back in the day, just rooted out trying to find photos I had taken of the Hamble at a similar time...(Ben I am still on the hunt, thought you would appreciate)

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So, spot the large Boat at Mercury, a most wonderful bar restaurant... the Terminist (I think that’s the spelling)
 
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Surprising number of motorboats on both marinas.
Looks much whiter than now - must have been a lovely time to have been boating.
I wasn't born in 1975 but my parents had their boat on a river mooring on the gamble.

In 1978 they bought a new Macwester 28 and moved it to Chichester. They didn't move back to the hamble until 1991
 
My parents took their boat to Mercury in 1970, when Robin Knox-Johnson owned Mercury and we moored next to his boat, Suhaili for a couple of years, and I used to play on and under his racing catamaran which he moored on a swing bouy by the marina...

My Dad’s Boat had its mast off every year and was wheeled into the storage shed for winter.. rigging put in linseed oil.. Jesus I sound so old..
 
I can remember the Hamble back as far as the mid 60s
I sailed at HRSC.

The marinas pictured were not built then.
From my memories...
The river was dominated by swinging and pile moorings.
J class yachts rotting in mud berths.
TS Mercury
http://www.hamblehistory.org.uk/shared/attachments.asp?f=acaddab0-f379-4d5e-9e57-542105f4959c.pdf
And not much else..
Yards included Fairey Marine. Deacons. A H Moody. Universal and a couple around Elephant.
The only marina then .. or pontoons really were at Moody s .
It was brilliant, and the summers seemed to last forever.
 
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