Sad news Charles Stock has passed away

[sailorman]

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3752492#post3752492

 

[MikeBz]

I just stumbled across the sad news on Tony Smith's website - Tony took over Shoal Waters from Charles last year (http://creeksailor.blogspot.co.uk/).

"Sailing Just For Fun" is the most inspirational cruising book I have ever read. I might have to read it again...

RIP.

Mike

 

[Gitane]

Very sad news.

Charles Stock was an inspiration to me as well as, I am sure, to many other East Coast sailors.

I enjoyed immensely his very informative book on his sailing adventures around the East Coast.

Charles has left a unique legacy to East Coast sailing as well to the greater sailing community.

My condolences to his family

Gitane

 

[MoodySabre]

R.I.P. - an East Coast legend.

 

[Otter]

I must read his book, it's obviously held in high regard. My wife wouldn't let me buy it when we saw it in a chandlers a few years ago, we were just getting into sailing together and she saw the front cover "we won't have to do it like that will we?" I told her how great he was, not having a dinghy, just a pair of wellies hung over the stern. Saw a look in her eye and my dream of a cruising life together ebbing away and didn't risk buying the book!

 

[tillergirl]

Very sad. But we can be certain he made the most of his life and found true enjoyment and contentment.

 

[ex-Gladys]

Whilst the passing of such a character is sad, I think the book was very opinionated, and nowhere near as insp-irational as Magic of the Swatchways...

 

[Fire99]

Certainly a character and will greatly missed in 'practical sailing' circles.

Regarding 'opinionated'. I like that approach. It's honest, and true to the author.

 

[ianc1200]

Re "I think the book was very opinionated, and nowhere near as insp-irational as Magic of the Swatchways..."

I asked Charles what MG was like - he said he was "a miserable old bugger"! (although another person who knew MG from Walton didn't agree with this).

Have to say I really enjoyed "Sailing Just For Fun" and it inspired me to go EC cruising.

So sad Charles has passed away, but Tony Smith/Creeksailor who now owns Shoal Waters is doing all the stuff CS would have approved of and providing great written accounts.

 

[DavidofMersea]

I asked Charles what MG was like - he said he was "a miserable old bugger"! (although another person who knew MG from Walton didn't agree with this).
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One afternoon many years ago I was travelling from Colchester to Liverpool St Station. I and a very smartly dressed gentleman got into one of the compartments. He noticed I was wearing a sailing club tie, and asked about my sailing, although he never introduced himself. He told me about a house he was having built in West Mersea, and it was not until many years later that I discovered that he was MG, and he certainly was not "a miserable old bugger", even though I told him that I never heard of Yachting Monthly. I said it was many years ago, and I was very young

 

[graham]

I met Charles Stock once about 25 years ago we both dried out in the mud on the pontoon at Newport Isle of Wight.

Neither of us were in home waters ,my boat at 17 foot was only a foot longer than Shoal Waters so I like to think we had at least something in common.

Sad to lose one of the great characters of the sailing world.