Tomahawk
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After fifteen years we took Tomahawk round the corner and the money was paid. We no longer have a boat. Oir next one is we do buy something will be a motor job .
Do I change my moniker?
Do I change my moniker?
She has gone..
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cherod
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( Am i confusing you with another ) Was that the Outremer ?
Tomahawk
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Yes. She is ashore in Essex Marina for some work... thence to the west coast of Scotland.
cherod
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Sold ?
Tomahawk
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Yes indeed... as my avatar is from the old twin tub what should I do about that as well?
cherod
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Look forward to seeing it around then ?
michael_w
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The dark side beckons ....
Bru
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Good luck with whatever comes next
Millenniumsteve
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Keep the moniker - nostalgia for you.
Good luck with the next purchase.
Good luck with the next purchase.
dolabriform
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A sad day indeed, but I agree with Steve, keep the moniker.
You'll always be the Tomahawk wielding pirate to us
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You'll always be the Tomahawk wielding pirate to us
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Charlie Boy
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Oh dear, always a sad day. Still, next one will be fun to find
LONG_KEELER
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tillergirl
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1. Keep the moniker (as I do)
2. And now the bad news - as you know I sold TG
on account of the arthritis. Staying on board with knees like that I would have never stayed on board for long. And so I bought a mobo so I could continue to do the research and surveys. It is quite fun doing that. BUT. On a day like today - sun out, moderate weather, I would have popped down today already and have gone out for a sail. It would have been great. Sails up, going nowhere special, just enjoying the pull of the sails, tweaking the setting of the sails, try to tack smartly, gybe nicely. Enjoy the motion of the boat over the sea which will be in harmony with you. Even if it is rough, you would enjoy the power of boat taking on the wind and waves.
But then, if it is a mobo: yes a nice comfortable chair which can swivel, recline or whatever. What are you gonna for a couple of hours? Go along the coast for an hour or so and back for another hour or so while infernal combustion provides noise and vibration and a motion that has no harmony to the soul at all......... ?
But I do have some (ugly) mega stanchions that which will keep me on board. I suppose that is better?
2. And now the bad news - as you know I sold TG
on account of the arthritis. Staying on board with knees like that I would have never stayed on board for long. And so I bought a mobo so I could continue to do the research and surveys. It is quite fun doing that. BUT. On a day like today - sun out, moderate weather, I would have popped down today already and have gone out for a sail. It would have been great. Sails up, going nowhere special, just enjoying the pull of the sails, tweaking the setting of the sails, try to tack smartly, gybe nicely. Enjoy the motion of the boat over the sea which will be in harmony with you. Even if it is rough, you would enjoy the power of boat taking on the wind and waves. But then, if it is a mobo: yes a nice comfortable chair which can swivel, recline or whatever. What are you gonna for a couple of hours? Go along the coast for an hour or so and back for another hour or so while infernal combustion provides noise and vibration and a motion that has no harmony to the soul at all......... ?
But I do have some (ugly) mega stanchions that which will keep me on board. I suppose that is better?
DownWest
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It's not all bad, I scored a set of little used sails off a boat in Holland. I am building a variation, with the same rig. The sails are from a couple who are getting a bit aged to use them, but want to motor about in the same boat. We both win.
johnalison
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I enjoy being on all boats, whether a rubber dinghy or a ferry, but the pleasure I get from being on a sailing cruiser is perhaps the best of all. I do hanker after the days of sailing dinghies but I think my chances of doing this again are slim, but you never know.
Zing
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Don’t do it. It will be a sell out. My thinking is to be going the other way, to more hard core sailing from comfortable cruising. Life needs to be lived as an adventure, not as in a cotton wool padded, easy, lifeless sterile cocoon.
Tomahawk
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Zing,
Thank you for your kind thoughts. Unfortunately the sale has been forced by a change of health. It is not what I expected. But we must cut our clothes from the cloth we have.
Tomahawk
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I am getting an F18... very second hand and not likely to be competitive but still fun to blast about in..
DownWest
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I thought the US defense lot were not selling off any thing more advanced than the Super Sabre?
Greg2
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There is much fun to be had with a mobo if you like being on the water. We have always had them and enjoyed cruises along the coast, across to the Netherlands and inland there and in the U.K. on the Broads and up the Thames, which is very doable without a mast. This season we have a Norfolk Gypsy for a but of day sailing so we can do a bit of both.
