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Minn said:
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Thanks Minn, I love reading that sort of detailed history on here.

Peter.
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I wonder how many boats Frank Mulville wrecked or nearly wrecked? Close to it with Iskra a couple of times (Iskra herself had to be towed into Shotley a couple of months ago with engine failure).
 
Like many of us, I had met Frank once or twice. I suppose that the more sailing you do, the more likely you are to have the odd prang. I think he had a misfortune with a big boat on the coast of Cuba, after he sold Transcur and before he bought Iskra, but I might be imagining that.
 
Minn said:
Like many of us, I had met Frank once or twice. I suppose that the more sailing you do, the more likely you are to have the odd prang. I think he had a misfortune with a big boat on the coast of Cuba, after he sold Transcur and before he bought Iskra, but I might be imagining that.
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No, I don't think you're imagining it. That misfortune was the loss of Girl Stella, an elderly gaff ketch that had started life as a Looe lugger. It is all vividly described by Frank in another of his many books, In Granma's Wake.

While in Cuba they had spent 24 hours on a reef but were rescued. In 1969 they were on their return voyage to England when Girl Stella was wrecked while anchored in a cove in the Azores.

The relevant excerpt from Granma's Wake (Girl Stella's Going) is included in my dad's book Total Loss.
 
Jan Harber said:
No, I don't think you're imagining it. That misfortune was the loss of Girl Stella, an elderly gaff ketch that had started life as a Looe lugger. It is all vividly described by Frank in another of his many books, In Granma's Wake.

While in Cuba they had spent 24 hours on a reef but were rescued. In 1969 they were on their return voyage to England when Girl Stella was wrecked while anchored in a cove in the Azores.

The relevant excerpt from Granma's Wake (Girl Stella's Going) is included in my dad's book Total Loss.
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Thanks, Jan. That’s where I read it.

By the way, have you ever thought of updating it with additional new cases and publishing a new edition? It’s a jolly good book.
 
I am going to buy total loss, just bought the terschelling one too, love a good boaty read, just saying........��
 
Minn said:
Thanks, Jan. That’s where I read it.

By the way, have you ever thought of updating it with additional new cases and publishing a new edition? It’s a jolly good book.
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I'm somewhat biased but I also think Total Loss is a jolly good book.

Adlard Coles thought so too and, some 15 years after it was first published, they asked Paul Gelder to do a second edition (2001) updated with about 20 new stories... (of what happened to lots of other poor sods' sunken boats).
 
Literary update in completely the wrong place ��
Half way through Tershelling , it's a fabulous read , totally gripped.
Out.
 
Sorry to come to the party so late, been away in France. I never met Frank, but my father, Gerald Dunn, had dealings with him in the mid 70s, as Frank had offered to tank-test my father's mini-sextant invention, the Cruiserfix, on a voyage from Bradwell to Norway and back. Frank would use traditional celestial navigation, and his then 16-year-old son, the late lamented Paddy Mulville, would use the Cruiserfix. I recall stories that it was cloudy for the whole voyage, and a washout for both methods.
 
Black Diamond said:
Sorry to come to the party so late, been away in France. I never met Frank, but my father, Gerald Dunn, had dealings with him in the mid 70s, as Frank had offered to tank-test my father's mini-sextant invention, the Cruiserfix, on a voyage from Bradwell to Norway and back. Frank would use traditional celestial navigation, and his then 16-year-old son, the late lamented Paddy Mulville, would use the Cruiserfix. I recall stories that it was cloudy for the whole voyage, and a washout for both methods.
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Black Diamond, could you please drop me a PM; I have an off-topic question to ask. Thank you in advance and best regards.
 
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