Kukri
Well-Known Member
I don't want to write a post that may seem as if I am blowing my own trumpet, but I have found that one is very often known by one's boat... I have just changed boats.
My forum name is Minn but it was originally Mirelle. Minn is Mirelle's Nutshell tender, and lives on her coachroof.
"Mirelle" looks like this:
(and that is Minn astern of her)
I owned Mirelle, and kept her on the Deben, from 1984 to 2013 when I sold her to James Evans, who looks after her wonderfully well and she now lives on the South Coast and flies the white ensign that she always aspired to.
Over the decades in which Mirelle and I were together (she never answered back, and only threw the crockery at me once!) I changed her colour from black, to grey, to light blue to cream. Each time I did so, George Collins at Ramsholt would make a point of telling me all about the last owner... who was, in fact, me.
I have just bought the black, composite, Ohlson 38 "Sunbeam of Harwich" from Peter Graves, who has owned her for 37 years and always kept her on the Orwell. Sunbeam looks like this and has either white or tan sails or a combination of the two:
As I am a creature of habit, I have acquired another Nutshell tender; this one is called Bluebottle, she used to belong to Chris Briggs ("Cecilia" - Pin Mill) and she and will live on Sunbeam's foredeck.
If you see Sunbeam doing something stupid, don't blame Peter or pull his leg about it, because the man to blame will have been me.
My forum name is Minn but it was originally Mirelle. Minn is Mirelle's Nutshell tender, and lives on her coachroof.
"Mirelle" looks like this:
(and that is Minn astern of her)
I owned Mirelle, and kept her on the Deben, from 1984 to 2013 when I sold her to James Evans, who looks after her wonderfully well and she now lives on the South Coast and flies the white ensign that she always aspired to.
Over the decades in which Mirelle and I were together (she never answered back, and only threw the crockery at me once!) I changed her colour from black, to grey, to light blue to cream. Each time I did so, George Collins at Ramsholt would make a point of telling me all about the last owner... who was, in fact, me.
I have just bought the black, composite, Ohlson 38 "Sunbeam of Harwich" from Peter Graves, who has owned her for 37 years and always kept her on the Orwell. Sunbeam looks like this and has either white or tan sails or a combination of the two:
As I am a creature of habit, I have acquired another Nutshell tender; this one is called Bluebottle, she used to belong to Chris Briggs ("Cecilia" - Pin Mill) and she and will live on Sunbeam's foredeck.
If you see Sunbeam doing something stupid, don't blame Peter or pull his leg about it, because the man to blame will have been me.
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