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We are up here on the West Coast in the backwaters and surprised to see 190ft sailing boat Ngoni and classic MY Fair lady
Off to Mallaig tomorrow to look at the fishing boats.
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stelican said:
We are up here on the West Coast in the backwaters and surprised to see 190ft sailing boat Ngoni and classic MY Fair lady
Off to Mallaig tomorrow to look at the fishing boats.
Sorry cannot get photo to transfer
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are you on your boat.
 
stelican said:
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Yep it is the bad forum software.
Generally, the problem is that the pics are too large for the forum software.
I have to scale my pics before uploading.
It is a shame that the designers didn't understand or think to make it work with a standard modern smart phone.
Really bad forethought.
 
We saw it parked out side Crinan Sea Lock on Sunday. Big and shiny with the 35'-40' boat anchored nearby only coming up to its second spreader!
 
stelican said:
We are up here on the West Coast in the backwaters and surprised to see 190ft sailing boat Ngoni and classic MY Fair lady
Off to Mallaig tomorrow to look at the fishing boats.
Sorry cannot get photo to transfer
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The word Nboni is an interesting name for a boat as it refers to a group of people of an ethnic group living in the present-day Southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

The Ngoni trace their origins to the Nguni and Zulu people of kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

It also refers to a kind of traditional african drum.

So I wander how the yacht got its name.
 
Rogershaw said:
It also refers to a kind of traditional african drum.
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African harp, and when you see how it's strung it makes a bit more sense, perhaps?

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BruceK said:
African harp, and when you see how it's strung it makes a bit more sense, perhaps?

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I know that as a Kora from West Africa where Ngoni people are mainly from East and South East Africa.

I do have something similar in by bar I got from the Comoros islands but is made from a a hollow bamboo/hardwood with 13 strings all around which is plucked like a harp or Kora.

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Tuning is by movable bridges
 
Rogershaw said:
I know that as a Kora from West Africa where Ngoni people are mainly from East and South East Africa.

I do have something similar in by bar I got from the Comoros islands but is made from a a hollow bamboo/hardwood with 13 strings all around which is plucked like a harp or Kora.

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Tuning is by movable bridges
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You're stuck on peoples. I'm proposing the name comes from a harp and not trying to join the two. That's your endaba :p

Ngoni (instrument) - Wikipedia
 
Yes I don't deny that there is a african harp called a ngoni the key i the number of strings.

I know the ngoni people as a number of friends and african people I have dealt with are from East and south East Africa who were all related to the ngoni people.

Ngoni people - Wikipedia.

As I said it would be interesting how the yacht get its name no more that an interest.
 
Why? I suppose he could of called it after a population group. I'll look for the next superyacht called Kydaar after the indigenous group north of the Vaal plateau. In the multiverse such a boat is inevitable
 
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