Southern N. Sea - 'Goblin' - Exhausted !

[STATUE]

A childrens book ? Arthur Ransome's "We didn't mean to go to sea " should be compulsory reading each year for cruising skippers.
In the last 24 hours I've just come through a Force 7, gusting 8, with the 4 of 'em, and I can tell you I am exhausted.

'A childrens book?' - go on, have a go and try and fault the logic of every move, decisions of John the skipper, course directions, etc. - but make sure there's a child in the room to whom you can run to when frightened !

 

[JumbleDuck]

A great book. I particularly like the way the children get all the information they need to make the crossing successfully - how to reef, how to call a pilot, fog signals and shoals - quite naturally over the course of the day they spend with Jim Brading.

It is no coincidence that I sail a 26 foot long boat with red sails.

 

[STATUE]

A great book. I particularly like the way the children get all the information they need to make the crossing successfully - how to reef, how to call a pilot, fog signals and shoals - quite naturally over the course of the day they spend with Jim Brading.

It is no coincidence that I sail a 26 foot long boat with red sails.

Hi JumbleDuck - your red sail vessel is obviously a dead ringer for Goblin.

I did the route, Harwich to Vlissingen in 2004 in my Francis 26, but no red sails !

 

[JumbleDuck]

Hi JumbleDuck - your red sail vessel is obviously a dead ringer for Goblin.

Not quite ... mine is pointy at both ends, although she is fairly traditional in appearance

I did the route, Harwich to Vlissingen in 2004 in my Francis 26, but no red sails !

It's on my bucket list!

 

[Kukri]

Here she is, in Holland. She repeats the fictional voyage quite often:


She is not much changed below:




She has a berth in Woolverstone Marina and lays up at Robertson’s in Woodbridge.

Anyone who isn’t a member of this wholly admirable organisation, should be:

The Nancy Blackett Trust

 

[Sticky Fingers]

What a great story that is. I first read it decades ago aged 8 or 9, a big influence on my life in a good way. Some of the language persists eg donkey and steamer scarer...