RIP Bob Fisher in Scuttlebutt

[Capt Popeye]

Just in case any East Coast Sailor has missed it there is on Scuttlebutt discussion about Bob Fisher, who has passed on

I recall Bob Fisher as an East Coast dinghy person, when guess that he was at the height of his personal best in Dinghys at that time; sailing the Essex waters and frequenting the various Clubs; being quite a celebrity he was oft spoke of most kindly

 

[7Cboy]

I met him when we took Lady Helmsman in to the Maritime Museum at Greenwich. We asked him and Reg White how they managed to rig the huge wing mast at Thorpe Bay. Fish said they laid her on her side , fitted the mast and then he got the local TA to turn her upright again.

 

[Daydream believer]

Was it Bob fisher that took a mirror dinghy to Thorpe bay for an open meeting. It was cancelled due to torrential rain. On the way home one of the underpasses on the a127 was totally flooded, so some of them rigged up & held a race around the roundabout under the bridges until the fuzz told them to b..ger off.

 

[DavidofMersea]

Was it Bob fisher that took a mirror dinghy to Thorpe bay for an open meeting. It was cancelled due to torrential rain. On the way home one of the underpasses on the a127 was totally flooded, so some of them rigged up & held a race around the roundabout under the bridges until the fuzz told them to b..ger off.

Sounds like BF, but a Mirror dinghy? The slowest boat I ever knew BF to sail was a Hornet

 

[ex-Gladys]

Sounds like BF, but a Mirror dinghy? The slowest boat I ever knew BF to sail was a Hornet

He sailed Brightlingsea One Designs....

 

[PeterV]

I don’t think Bob F had anything to do with it but my recollection was that it was a fleet of Puffins were told to move on after sailing their boats on th Chelmsford underpass off the A27.

 

[PeterWright]

I don’t think Bob F had anything to do with it but my recollection was that it was a fleet of Puffins were told to move on after sailing their boats on th Chelmsford underpass off the A27.

A 27 Pevensey to the wolds of Wiltshire, Chelmsford county town of Essex, something not quite adding up???

 

[DavidofMersea]

A 27 Pevensey to the wolds of Wiltshire, Chelmsford county town of Essex, something not quite adding up???

Bob fisher came from Brightlingsea and later moved to the south coast

I don't think there is a Chelmsford underpass off the A27. Surely the A27 is south of the Thames , nowhere near chelmsford

 

[Capt Popeye]

Bob fisher came from Brightlingsea and later moved to the south coast

I don't think there is a Chelmsford underpass off the A27. Surely the A27 is south of the Thames , nowhere near chelmsford

Surely the main road through Essex is the A12 inking East London, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswitch to Norfolk ?

 

[Chae_73]

original post says A127 which is the road from Southend to Harold Wood, Romford.

 

[PeterWright]

original post says A127 which is the road from Southend to Harold Wood, Romford.

On my computer, Peter V's post says A27, but even the A127 doesn't get very near to Chelmsford, probably the closest is where it passes a bit South of Wickford.

P.

 

[DavidofMersea]

Anyway, where is this underpass? and how do you sail in a flooded underpass?

 

[DavidofMersea]

The heading for this thread is"RIP Bob Fisher in Scuttlebutt ", did BF post on here?

 

[davidej]

I lived at Thorpe Bay during the heyday of the Little America Cup. My brother and I used the go down to the beach to help manhandling Hellcat, Emma Hamilton, Ocelot, Lady Hamilton and of course the challengers.
As schoolboys we loved rubbing shoulders with him, Reg White, Rod Macalpine-Downie , John Osborne and the other catamaran glitterati. Happy days!
Led me on to 20 years of weekend racing catamarans.

 

[DavidofMersea]

I lived at Thorpe Bay during the heyday of the Little America Cup. My brother and I used the go down to the beach to help manhandling Hellcat, Emma Hamilton, Ocelot, Lady Hamilton and of course the challengers.
As schoolboys we loved rubbing shoulders with him, Reg White, Rod Macalpine-Downie , John Osborne and the other catamaran glitterati. Happy days!
Led me on to 20 years of weekend racing catamarans.

Which class of cat?

 

[ex-Gladys]

I lived at Thorpe Bay during the heyday of the Little America Cup. My brother and I used the go down to the beach to help manhandling Hellcat, Emma Hamilton, Ocelot, Lady Hamilton and of course the challengers.
As schoolboys we loved rubbing shoulders with him, Reg White, Rod Macalpine-Downie , John Osborne and the other catamaran glitterati. Happy days!
Led me on to 20 years of weekend racing catamarans.

That'd be Lady Helmsman... sponsored by Helmsman paints

Which class of cat?

C class...

There were/are 4 ISAF development cat classes:

A - 18'
B - 20' (Tornado won the selection trials in 1967)
C - 25' Little Americas cup class
D- 30' (years ago there was a single moulded wood hull and beams in the "wreck yard" at Marconi SC)