There goes the neighbourhood!

[Frank Holden]

I've been just a little too smug, thinking how lucky I am that all these rallies stick to the warm bits.
Too smug by half it seems.
My Happy New Year ceased to be happy soon after rising this morning when I was greeted by this news.

Jimmy Cornell is planning a high latitude rally in 2027. Well **** him and the horse he rode in on.
Noonsite.com - The Ultimate Cruisers Planning Tool

Seems he already has 27 signed up.
Can't speak for other ports but Puerto Montt is chocka as it is with about 6 or 7 transients currently spread across the two marinas.
That chocka that -as management knew I wouldn't be using my boat in January/February - I was lifted for free on Boxing Day to make room for ***member's*** boats over the hols.

It will be 'interesting' down south.

 

[IanCC]

IWell **** him and the horse he rode in on.

Totally this.

So in years to come the only way to go will be with the cornell band wagon? Seems bizarre to me, i thought they just organised parties.

 

[DownWest]

Nothing to stop you going on your own. Just no parties..

 

[Frank Holden]

Nothing to stop you going on your own. Just no parties..

Won't be worth 'going on your own in '27.
I presume it will start in the late northern summer and they will be in 'the southern cone' November/Decemberish. Just in time to be going north through the channels at the peak of the NW'lys and the rain. Oh Joy.
The only port that I think could accomodate such a horde would be Punta del Este.

 

[Wansworth]

Anchored off Bognor will be the only wilderness left without a rally

 

[benjenbav]

These are bits of the world we used to leave alone owing to their inhospitality.

Then we explored them to find out what was there. Partly out of a desire for knowledge and partly to strip them of minerals.

Now they’re just another tourist destination for bored idiots to instagram a penguin or a polar bear.

 

[Blueboatman]

Anchored off Bognor will be the only wilderness left without a rally

A ( working from home in Galicia) job awaits you with the Bognor tourist board..
Do mention the pristine windswept beaches, the olde time cinema and purveyors of knickerbocker glories and the putting green .. and more(!}

 

[Wansworth]

A ( working from home in Galicia) job awaits you with the Bognor tourist board..
Do mention the pristine windswept beaches, the olde time cinema and purveyors of knickerbocker glories and the putting green .. and more(!}

…
……..and remains of the windswept pier

 

[Stingo]

May I humbly suggest that anyone considering going that far south, instead spend a year backpacking the length of South America and then doing the cruise ship option to the western peninsula of Antarctica.

 

[Blueboatman]

…
……..and remains of the windswept pier

See, the job is yours!

 

[Wansworth]

See, the job is yours!

Back in the late sixties a plan was put forward to build a marina on Bognor rocks,to the west of buntlines and the sewer outfall but it came to nothing

 

[Blueboatman]

Back in the late sixties a plan was put forward to build a marina on Bognor rocks,to the west of buntlines and the sewer outfall but it came to nothing

The French seem to have no difficulty building municipal and affordable marinas ..
Mind you, they arrived in the uk in 1066 with a flat pack castle !

 

[Wansworth]

The French seem to have no difficulty building municipal and affordable marinas ..
Mind you, they arrived in the uk in 1066 with a flat pack castle !

From what I have been reading about the Norman’s they weren’t very nice people…..thirty years after 1066 they went on a slaughtering spree on the first Crusade……Bognor is gentle decline

 

[Blueboatman]

William the bastard ! In oh so many and not so nice ways..

This is the best book I’ve read on the England that existed and played into the Norman invasion.
By the bloke who was involved in the Shetland Bus too in ww2. David Hogarth.

I can’t remember if Bognor gets a mention specifically But Bosham does..

1066 (book) - Wikipedia

 

[AntarcticPilot]

The French seem to have no difficulty building municipal and affordable marinas ..
Mind you, they arrived in the uk in 1066 with a flat pack castle !

My goodness, was IKEA in business then? I guess we shouldn't be surprised - the Normans were second generation Vikings!

 

[Blueboatman]

My goodness, was IKEA in business then? I guess we shouldn't be surprised - the Normans were second generation Vikings!

They brought their own Alain keys too I expect !
Ah, the joys of being at home for Christmas idly talking silly bolleaux

 

[Wansworth]

My goodness, was IKEA in business then? I guess we shouldn't be surprised - the Normans were second generation Vikings!

Norman bookcases won the war and being as mentioned flat pack could be stowed easily

 

[Frogmogman]

The French seem to have no difficulty building municipal and affordable marinas ..
Mind you, they arrived in the uk in 1066 with a flat pack castle !

I think that these days, even in France, environmental campaigners make obtaining permission for the construction of a new marina a tricky business

 

[Blueboatman]

I think that these days, even in France, environmental campaigners make obtaining permission for the construction of a new marina a tricky business

Indeed, it is becoming a hard sell..

I keep wondering if and when we shall reach ‘ peak yachting’!

 

[benjenbav]

Norman bookcases won the war and being as mentioned flat pack could be stowed easily

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that one of ikea’s most famous products is the ‘Billy bookcase’?