Achillesheel
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Found this photo from the summer, and thought I'd share it.
Shrimpers
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Tomahawk
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Theyre not racing by any chance?
Achillesheel
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Yes, this was taken just minutes after the start, its amazing how quickly a fleet of identical boats can spread out.
Well. I like the photo anyway.
Well. I like the photo anyway.
chinita
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Can't you hear the noize???
"Yeeeeehaaaah, Ahhhh feeel the neeeeed for speeeeed!!!!!"
Resolution
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Can't you hear the noize???
"Yeeeeehaaaah, Ahhhh feeel the neeeeed for speeeeed!!!!!"
Certainly not. When I crewed on a shrimper one Rock week the air was full of "Sorry, Charles"
"That's quite all right Henry".
A visiting Aussie said Shrimper owners were all esses:
silver haired
sixty
from Surrey
Frogmogman
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With that many shrimpers out the local decapod crustaceans would be well advised to keep a low profile.
Seajet
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Knees
I have always taken the P out of Shrimpers; for the silly money and weight to move around handling ashore, they're an unseaworthy joke !
THEN I met up with friends - plural - who are real sailors, dinghy & cruiser but now have big problems with knees, I've been trying to find a good dayboat to suggest for them; the Shrimper would be a first start and begins to make sense, but still silly money for what it is...
I have always taken the P out of Shrimpers; for the silly money and weight to move around handling ashore, they're an unseaworthy joke !
THEN I met up with friends - plural - who are real sailors, dinghy & cruiser but now have big problems with knees, I've been trying to find a good dayboat to suggest for them; the Shrimper would be a first start and begins to make sense, but still silly money for what it is...
chinita
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I would choose a Cape Cutter over a Shrimper.
BlackJacksGaff
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I had an "unseaworthy joke" for 12 years and she looked after me very well. Even in a Force 9 on one occasion. I am going grey, was 40 when I bought mine and have never lived in Surrey.
All to their own
All to their own
Seajet
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Shrimper19,
a Shrimper in a force 9 ? Please tell us more...
Like you I am going grey, and also have never lived in Surrey.
a Shrimper in a force 9 ? Please tell us more...
Like you I am going grey, and also have never lived in Surrey.
Resolution
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"S" could also refer to
"Seajet"
and
"Sussex".
And, living in Sussex as I do, it could very well stand for "Sheep".
But that would be fred drift.....
Seajet
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BlackJacksGaff
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Ok admittedly it was in the Solent and not offshore. A rather hairy reach from Yarmouth to Beaulieu in 50 mph winds and a deserted Solent (wonder why?) I needed to get back to work and figured as I was going with wind and tide it would be fine. It was, even if the mast was bending a bit!
She was happy but wet in a 6 but a bit tough going in anything more.
