sailorman
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Mitre cut sails by Bruce Banks if you dont mind
Tobermory Yacht race - 1968
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Seven Spades
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I wonder how many survived
NealB
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You're right......been there, done that (ie wooden boat ownership).
But, but and another but.......our house is on the site of William King's at Burnham (Lola's builder).
And Lola is one of my favourite songs.
But then again, so is Dream, dream, dream.
So much synchronicity....
dylanwinter
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we are the luckiest sailors ever to travel the oceans
immortal boats, easy navigation,perfect weather forecasts, great emergency services
life could not be any better
Uricanejack
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Thanks
I enjoyed that.
Do they still have a race up to Tobermory? but I think it stops in Oban now.
I enjoyed that.
Do they still have a race up to Tobermory? but I think it stops in Oban now.
dylanwinter
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No, it still goes to Tobemoray.
It still takes place:-
http://www.clyde.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=454
Quandary
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It does still take place, still as before at the start of the Glasgow Fair, but sadly it is much depleted. There is an offshore first leg straight to Crinan avoiding the Canal favoured by the keen racers. In recent years the tradition for those transiting the canal seems to be to put their female crew ashore to work the locks while the males stand on deck in shorts and dubs. clutching their bottles and swearing to empasize their impatience. Not many family crews these days and the hotshots turn round and come back the day after. It was in its heyday in the eighties when racing was at its height. Only West Highland week is expanding as a family event these days.
Seven Spades
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In the video there were three legs but now it looks like just two. Having seen the video I thought it looked like a bit of fund but having read your post it has quite put me off.
mrming
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Great video. I've been travelling to the Scottish Series at Tarbert, Loch Fyne for the last 12 years.
Numbers have been gradually dying away over that time but this year is the 40th anniversary and we're hoping to see a better turn out. CCC are hoping for over 100 boats.
We also sailed from Ireland to the Mull and through the Crinan Canal on my dad's half tonner when I was a kid. Beautiful spot although we had considerably more rain than in the video!
Numbers have been gradually dying away over that time but this year is the 40th anniversary and we're hoping to see a better turn out. CCC are hoping for over 100 boats.
We also sailed from Ireland to the Mull and through the Crinan Canal on my dad's half tonner when I was a kid. Beautiful spot although we had considerably more rain than in the video!
awol
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It's all a bit busy round the start of July this year with the Round Mull on 27th June, Tobermory on 5th July and WHYW on 12th July. I believe it so the world's press won't be distracted from the Commie Games and the more athletic sailors can compete.
dylanwinter
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more stuff here
interesting blog
http://peggybawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/summer-of-68-the-tobermory-race/
including a report from 1969 and the bloke who made the film
The Tobermory Race – The Story of the Film
by Louis Miller
‘Cue Magnus’.
The race was on, and four cameras were eating up film at a frightening speed. So, with the eights leading class one into the east Kyle, Dick Johnstone, trying to find his sea-legs on Christina (and taking some of the finest sailing pictures I have ever seen), Magnus enthusing over the breath-taking beauty of the scene, and classes two and three preparing for their starting guns, I think this is an appropriate point to fill in some of the background to the filming of the 1968 Tobermory Race.
I suppose it’s only natural that the idea of filming the Tobermory should have been uppermost in my mind for so many years. Being in the film business, and a keen sailor, the two had to come together some time!
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But my colleagues in the film unit were much less enthusiastic.
‘Yachting isn’t a spectator sport, people would get bored.’
‘You cannot possibly hold the average viewer’s interest in a lot of boats sailing for half an hour.’
‘It takes more than pretty pictures to make a film.’ And so on and on and on. There was much sense in what they said.
It would be only too easy to make a film which would delight yachtsmen, but this film would be seen by people who had no special interest in boats, and somehow it would have to be made both interesting and entertaining to the layman.
So I started to work on a script.
(From Clyde Cruising Club Journal, 1969)
more on the blog
interesting blog
http://peggybawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/summer-of-68-the-tobermory-race/
including a report from 1969 and the bloke who made the film
The Tobermory Race – The Story of the Film
by Louis Miller
‘Cue Magnus’.
The race was on, and four cameras were eating up film at a frightening speed. So, with the eights leading class one into the east Kyle, Dick Johnstone, trying to find his sea-legs on Christina (and taking some of the finest sailing pictures I have ever seen), Magnus enthusing over the breath-taking beauty of the scene, and classes two and three preparing for their starting guns, I think this is an appropriate point to fill in some of the background to the filming of the 1968 Tobermory Race.
I suppose it’s only natural that the idea of filming the Tobermory should have been uppermost in my mind for so many years. Being in the film business, and a keen sailor, the two had to come together some time!
.......
But my colleagues in the film unit were much less enthusiastic.
‘Yachting isn’t a spectator sport, people would get bored.’
‘You cannot possibly hold the average viewer’s interest in a lot of boats sailing for half an hour.’
‘It takes more than pretty pictures to make a film.’ And so on and on and on. There was much sense in what they said.
It would be only too easy to make a film which would delight yachtsmen, but this film would be seen by people who had no special interest in boats, and somehow it would have to be made both interesting and entertaining to the layman.
So I started to work on a script.
(From Clyde Cruising Club Journal, 1969)
more on the blog
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mrming
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Fascinating. I wonder if the handicap results are available anywhere? Did Lola win her class?
KellysEye
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It was great to see proper yachts not the modern lookalikes. Thanks.
Bodach na mara
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Just found this and thanks for posting Dylan.
I can't remember which boat I was on that year, possibly Geita or Mary of Dorset. I know the crew of Saint Mary and will email them a link. Funny to see them looking like that and comparing with current appearances!
The film itself is the result of careful editing. You get a clue to that from David Rombach's comment when St Mary ran aground at Crinan. In reply to another comment, the race has two legs, we did not race through the canal, though that would have been interesting!
I can't remember which boat I was on that year, possibly Geita or Mary of Dorset. I know the crew of Saint Mary and will email them a link. Funny to see them looking like that and comparing with current appearances!
The film itself is the result of careful editing. You get a clue to that from David Rombach's comment when St Mary ran aground at Crinan. In reply to another comment, the race has two legs, we did not race through the canal, though that would have been interesting!
Peggy Bawn
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Thanks for raising that; what an omission! Now sorted at the blog post highlighted by Dylan (post #32):
http://peggybawn.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/summer-of-68-the-tobermory-race/
To find the handicap results, scroll down to the end of the “boat-spotter’s” guide.
