stranded boat

Poor boat !

Have you tried QHM ? or even Gosport Boat Yard and Hardway SC ?

How to contact the Queen's Harbour Master
Postal Address: Semaphore Tower
HM Naval Base
Portsmouth
PO1 3LT
E-Mail: portsmouth@qhm.mod.uk

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Gosport Boat Yard
The Old Town Quay,
5 Harbour Road,
Gosport,
Hampshire,
PO12 1BJ.

Phone/Fax - 023 9258 6216

E-mail us - gosportboatyard@tiscali.co.uk

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Hardway Sailing Club
103 Priory Road
Gosport
PO12 4LF

email secretary@hardwaysailingclub.co.uk

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Of course the first question will be the name of the boat, is it visible ?
 
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han34,

please let us know of any progress with any of the contacts I mentioned; I know someone with contacts at QHM but suspect he will be at his ( non marine ) work at the moment.

As you say she looks well cared for...
 
han34,

well you've done your bit, and I'm sure the owner will be very grateful when he / she does find out.

In the meantime the boat may well be looted, may have been already looking at the open hatch, but I'd guess that's the least of her worries.
 
Hmmm, I know she looks like a Westerly at first glance, but I can't place the class; stepped and narrowed coachroof, forehatch in the deck, slightly pointier bow; maybe one of the designs Laurent Giles did as Westely clones, the Seamaster 23 being another ???

Probably just me and she is a Westerly...either way I hope her owner arrives on the scene ASAP.
 
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Either way, she looks like her owner cares for her; she will be repairable, just a case of whether bought back from insurers or not - and if not, if the owner can afford it all...

It would be interesting to know where she came from, and whose mooring & maintainence.
 
I suspect she is from somehere in Portchester Lake, Bombketch Lake or maybe Hardway. A lot of the moorings in the harbour are owner maintained and it is not unknown for these to fail and the vessels then set off by themselves with the mooring bouy attached as looks the case with this one. To put this in perspective some friends laid their own mooring about ten years ago in Pausgrove lake. They still 'own it' but don't use it and certainly don't maintain it. I have seen a number of boats use it overnight. This would hold true for plenty of other moorings both in Portsmouth and elsewhere.
 
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Here's a couple from Langstone harbour after last Monday's blow- the dory sank on it's mooring but we got it ashore Xmas eve - knackered tho' with brand new honda outboard.

We couldn't do anything for the yacht (make??) with the small workboat but heard today it had been towed off the spit (Hayling side). Both owners aware, but bad start to 2014
 
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ripvan1,

that boat looks like a Samphire 29, hope she is OK.

LadyInBed,

yes it's at times like this when one lives relatively far away that friends living locally are gold dust; Fantasie19 of these forums kindly went and checked my and another chums' boats, making an effort in 'orrible weather to do so - all was fine but it's very nice to be told that, especially after seeing the carnage on here !
 
Seajet said:
Hmmm, I know she looks like a Westerly at first glance, but I can't place the class; stepped and narrowed coachroof, forehatch in the deck, slightly pointier bow; maybe one of the designs Laurent Giles did as Westely clones, the Seamaster 23 being another ???

Probably just me and she is a Westerly...either way I hope her owner arrives on the scene ASAP.
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A westerly Cirrus was my first thought....
 
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