Someone is afloat again

[Captain Coochie]

I wonder who got slipped today

 

[Captain Coochie]

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Scary process going up the slip last Wednesday morning. We missed the lift points (hard to line up precsely from the bridge) and the boat was nor far enough along the cradle. While coming out of the water there was an end of The Italian Job feeling, quickly solved by dropping back down the slip and gettng someone to spot the lift marks onto the sling. Pulled out again and discover that from head to ground while on the bridge is the thick end of 20 feet with the stern at maximum lift on the rams. Nervewracking! Jedi is probably the largest boat in the club that we can slip, the cradle is certified to 6.3 tons IIRC and will take 11' beam for the Seamaster 30.

I now have a nice clean and shiny boat, tyvm Jason for the pictures as I was at my youngest god-child's christening at the time.

Cost of slip and 3 days ashore? £50, yup, fifty beer vouchers. A price I am prepared to pay

 

[byron]

Ah how I aspired to an Oceanfarer 32 in the 1960s. It was to me the be all and end all of boats then.
I managed to own a Coronet 27 which I paid £3,500 for in about 1968. Filling up with petrol at 3/- (15p) a gallon I would regularly zip across from Hayling Island to Cherbourg.

 

[Captain Coochie]

£50 Is that only for club members ?

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Ah how I aspired to an Oceanfarer 32 in the 1960s. It was to me the be all and end all of boats then.
I managed to own a Coronet 27 which I paid £3,500 for in about 1968. Filling up with petrol at 3/- (15p) a gallon I would regularly zip across from Hayling Island to Cherbourg.

Don't have the original bill of sale but we do have an original price list from Wadham Stringer at Dell Quay, £13500 new in 1969 for the shaft drive diesel model. I gather this was a bit rich for the UK market and they only sold a few.

Yes Jason, members only, I am sure I can pass on the Mem Sec's address if you like