Cruise Reports Taking our yacht to Sweden for the summer - any 50m marinas?

It is with a heavy heart that I find it necessary to quell a viscious rumour started by former friend Colhel of this parish. I welcomed him into the world of motorboats with open arms and even gave him a beer onboard my boat once. Not a big bottle, one of those cheap little stubby ones you get in Fench supermarkets. But none the less a beer.

I called him out on the fact he was using snide Chinese copy Zeus Tables and the relationship soured to the point where I am having to post this. To be fair it wasn't a hard spot, they listed 3/4 inch 55 degree Whitworth threads as having a pitch of 0.1050 when of course even a child knows it is 0.1000.

Anyway, he is calling me out on Gosport Weatherspoons suggesting such a regal, prosperous and charming seaside idyll couldn't possibly have a weatherspoons and I am lying. I do grant you Gosport is the poster boy for Waitrose and houses their flagship store. It's Victorian model boating lake is a designated world heritage site and Queen Victoria her self coined the phrase "The Jewel of England" when on one of her regular visits en route to Osborne House. Estate agents Savilles recently voted Mumby Road as the Uk's most desirable place to live.

In a tongue in cheek nod to less fortunate areas the town council passed Weatherspoons' planning application in 1924. As Scottish Jimmy says, Royalty have drunk in there. Well, to be truthful you couldn't understand exactly what he said on account of the fact it was 11.30am and he'd sunk 6 pints of Tennants Super, but that was the general gist.

So to stop Colhel's viscious slur on my good name can I present my evidence to you all:

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Henry :)
 
How am I supposed to reply to that?!:D

But anyway there is another super yacht build about to take shape, probably at a slower pace than some of the others on here much to the disdain of the skipper, he's the funny shaped one with strange hair, lets call him henry shall we? IMG_20170312_152818.jpg
 
henryf said:
It is with a heavy heart that I find it necessary to quell a viscious rumour started by former friend Colhel of this parish. I welcomed him into the world of motorboats with open arms and even gave him a beer onboard my boat once. Not a big bottle, one of those cheap little stubby ones you get in Fench supermarkets. But none the less a beer.

I called him out on the fact he was using snide Chinese copy Zeus Tables and the relationship soured to the point where I am having to post this. To be fair it wasn't a hard spot, they listed 3/4 inch 55 degree Whitworth threads as having a pitch of 0.1050 when of course even a child knows it is 0.1000.

Anyway, he is calling me out on Gosport Weatherspoons suggesting such a regal, prosperous and charming seaside idyll couldn't possibly have a weatherspoons and I am lying. I do grant you Gosport is the poster boy for Waitrose and houses their flagship store. It's Victorian model boating lake is a designated world heritage site and Queen Victoria her self coined the phrase "The Jewel of England" when on one of her regular visits en route to Osborne House. Estate agents Savilles recently voted Mumby Road as the Uk's most desirable place to live.

In a tongue in cheek nod to less fortunate areas the town council passed Weatherspoons' planning application in 1924. As Scottish Jimmy says, Royalty have drunk in there. Well, to be truthful you couldn't understand exactly what he said on account of the fact it was 11.30am and he'd sunk 6 pints of Tennants Super, but that was the general gist.

So to stop Colhel's viscious slur on my good name can I present my evidence to you all:

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Henry :)
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Henry, I do not know you personally nor do I know Colhel, and this feud is news to me. But I declare that your picture has been photoshopped!
I have been to Gosport and the only thing available there is the much cheaper Morrisons Custard Powder
 
colhel said:
How am I supposed to reply to that?!:D

But anyway there is another super yacht build about to take shape, probably at a slower pace than some of the others on here much to the disdain of the skipper, he's the funny shaped one with strange hair, lets call him henry shall we? View attachment 63148
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Colin you are a star!

I am humbled by your Custard retort :)

I still remember that night with Gary when we couldn't breath through laughter.

Are you thinking of constructing in the UK or farming it out to Asia ?

Henry :)
 
Bouba said:
Henry, I do not know you personally nor do I know Colhel, and this feud is news to me. But I declare that your picture has been photoshopped!
I have been to Gosport and the only thing available there is the much cheaper Morrisons Custard Powder
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It was a tough call when selecting the Birds Custard powder from Mr Morrison's shelf. At £1 their 70 pence Morrisons brand Custard powder was a full 30p cheaper but I knew the Vultures on here would have ripped me to shreds.

Emily will be 30p light in this week's pocket money....


Henry :)
 
henryf said:
It was a tough call when selecting the Birds Custard powder from Mr Morrison's shelf. At £1 their 70 pence Morrisons brand Custard powder was a full 30p cheaper but I knew the Vultures on here would have ripped me to shreds.

Emily will be 30p light in this week's pocket money....


Henry :)
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I guess Gosport must have changed since I was last there, I can't remember the year but I think Mrs Thatcher was PM (or was it that nice Mr Heath?). I mean can you imagine if the locals caught someone posing with custard powder outside a pub in Grimsby:ambivalence:
 
I pretended to be looking at property in the window of the estate agents across the road and then when there was a gap in human traffic snuck in an grabbed a photo.

Henry :)
 
Damn, this has swagger.

I have a real question:

Wooden boats -

Who has an enthusiasm for Gardner engines and wooden hulls?

Have an 80' classic mahogany sloop that i may need help getting sea-worthy to go from north weat italy to western Greece also. Family boat. Much loved, needs knowledgeable help.

Cheers

R.
 
Capital_R said:
Damn, this has swagger.

I have a real question:

Wooden boats -

Who has an enthusiasm for Gardner engines and wooden hulls?

Have an 80' classic mahogany sloop that i may need help getting sea-worthy to go from north weat italy to western Greece also. Family boat. Much loved, needs knowledgeable help.

Cheers

R.
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Wow! no wonder you feed us in dribs and drabs.
All I know is that Gardner claim to be the most reliable engine in history. The company I think still exists but probably only does remanufacturing not new engines (could be wrong) they are very popular with the ditch crawling crowd in their narrow boats. They might be your best source of expertise and the wooden lot might know a bit about....wood, otherwise it's just MapisM:encouragement:
 
Bouba said:
otherwise it's just MapisM
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Thanks, but I wouldn't even dream of calling myself a wood expert (other than as a long time wooden boat owner) - let alone on Gardner, whose engines I've only seen once, on a lovely boat exposed at the wooden boat show in Hobart...
That said, an 80' mahogany sloop (Sangermani, by chance?) sounds like a very intriguing boat indeed!
C_R, since you say that she's in NW IT, if you could use a local help from someone who, if nothing else, speaks a decent Italian, gimme a shout. :encouragement:
 
Sounds excellent.

Id reveal the boat name which is probably well known (google my real name and 'maxi yacht', but please dont post the results here) but for the amount of times ive been called a nut job in this thread... which google will no doubt pick up at some point...

Anyway. That's the boat. We shipped her up from Asia last year and want to give her a bit of a do-over for Dad's 75th birthday coming up.

She's a lovely boat. But ive not seem her for a decade.. and my brothers say she needs some TLC incliding replacing all through hulls and winches and probably everything except the Gardner as the gardner is truly magnificent. It's true. They are an insane engine.

8LXB is the model. And it deserves love. But the diesel tanks and through hulls and the effects of a dozen years sitting im Thailand have not gone unabsorbed....

MapisM said:
Thanks, but I wouldn't even dream of calling myself a wood expert (other than as a long time wooden boat owner) - let alone on Gardner, whose engines I've only seen once, on a lovely boat exposed at the wooden boat show in Hobart...
That said, an 80' mahogany sloop (Sangermani, by chance?) sounds like a very intriguing boat indeed!
C_R, since you say that she's in NW IT, if you could use a local help from someone who, if nothing else, speaks a decent Italian, gimme a shout. :encouragement:
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So....we can google your "real" name and maxi yacht but not to reveal the results?
Anyone (non-members included) can do this but by revealing it on here it will show on any future search.
This suggests you are hiding.....from the real you?

Very cloak and dagger.
 
Lols. Not that cloak and dagger.

Just leaving a small footprint if possible.... while not being cast over to the silly corner prematurely.

Laughed aloud on the hull shape comments in the liferaft posts. Sorry Portofino!
 
Capital_R said:
Damn, this has swagger.

I have a real question:

Wooden boats -

Who has an enthusiasm for Gardner engines and wooden hulls?

Have an 80' classic mahogany sloop that i may need help getting sea-worthy to go from north weat italy to western Greece also. Family boat. Much loved, needs knowledgeable help.

Cheers

R.
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You should post in any of the four forums above this one RE: wooden rag and stick yachts, you should get a lot of interest there.
 
Capital R You don't have to join the other forums, I believe that the raggies are joining this forum just to follow you!
 
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