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dylanwinter

dylanwinter

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Bill's Albin Vega

well designed

galley under the hatch - port side - which is here it should be

cockpit is full of leaves but it looks really comfortable and secure

odd that after a day of anti-fouling and English plastic classic

I get turfed out to sleep in a Swedish plastic classic in the best boatyard I have ever been in

Payne's is a British classic

Long may it survive

Dylan

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dylanwinter said:
Bill's Albin Vega

in the best boatyard I have ever been in

Payne's is a British classic

Long may it survive

Dylan
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Minty?

Still for sale presumably?

You should have seen Paynes when Glen Bowker was still alive. You would have loved it then. Grassy field with old boats and piles of "junk" everywhere. Like some of the places you've raved over in your Videos, only more so

It was a great privilege to have known Glen and to have been able to keep a boat at Paynes for over 30 years. My Sea Wych was first launched there on the spring bank holiday weekend in 1978


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and one of your beloved Westerlies for you

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I keep looking at Bill's Vega. Its a lot of boat for the money, but sadly my mooring won't take a fin keel. Catch 22 really. I get a mooring that can take a fin keel an I can't, or won't, afford it.
 
BarryH said:
I keep looking at Bill's Vega. Its a lot of boat for the money, but sadly my mooring won't take a fin keel. Catch 22 really. I get a mooring that can take a fin keel an I can't, or won't, afford it.
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But Minty has been at the yard for years. Bill W-R has only owned owned her for a short time but John and Kate kept her there for quite a while before him.

There's a mooring there somewhere for her. It's worth talking to Mark if you are serious and could pay the extra. Could be a nice buy. I think Bill did a fair bit of work on her and he is the sort of guy who does things properly. She was just not the sort of boat that suited Bill's sailing hence his change to the Liberty, which incidently I drew Dylans attention to when he started looking for a Liberty or Minstrel.
 
I fear if I did buy it I would be in the same position as Bill. I'm not adverse to leaving maks in he mu but when I do I like to remain somewhere near upright. For what I do my little bilge keeler suits me. We can all dream and If I dream't of getting another boat it would need a dog house. Thats where I would be sent......still hiding the new tiller pilot from her!!
 
Mavanier said:
Out of pure nosiness, is there a link to this Vega if if it's for sale?
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I don't think so, its more of a word of mouth thing. I am at the yard tomorrow as I'm doing some work for someone there, and tryig to get through my endless list of jobs. I'll ask Bill for his number. The boat is on the south coast, dunno if thats too far for you.
 
No worries, just being nosy, I like to see what other owners have done to their Vegas (and how much they are asking for them!)
 
Mavanier said:
Did you bother putting the table up?
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I found the original table a bit of a fiddle so I built a semi fixed tal
ble over the port berth,,just a few momments to remove and leaves the centre free.One of the good things about the Vega are the decent berths......designed before someone invented doble berths!
 
First people I met at Paynes were Mintys owner then.

Blew into the yard , ( as you do, no reverse on a seagull ) chucked an anchor out the back to stop, and halted alongside Minty..invited aboard for lovely breakfast coffee, 'I'm going to like it here', ses I . Think they'd just got back from the Baltic, having previously 'circumnavigated' France and Spain , beating back up the Portugese coast without fuss.. When I went off to the states I was crossing courses with ahem some photocopied books and papers kindly lent..

I remember ' playing' MOB drills in Minty, very handy boats them Vegas, that will 'spin' in circles adroitly, comfortably and continuously if you put the helm down and leave it there ..

And now the Vega gets the Dylan star treatment..

( Dunno why you're (still?) so keen on takin g Harmony to Hayling island Mr D, its a bugga of a drive, no shops, that bridge/commuters.. ?)
 
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Blueboatman said:
First people I met at Paynes were Mintys owner then.

Blew into the yard , ( as you do, no reverse on a seagull ) chucked an anchor out the back to stop, and halted alongside Minty..invited aboard for lovely breakfast coffee, 'I'm going to like it here', ses I . Think they'd just got back from the Baltic, having previously 'circumnavigated' France and Spain , beating back up the Portugese coast without fuss.. When I went off to the states I was crossing courses with ahem some photocopied books and papers kindly lent..

I remember ' playing' MOB drills in Minty, very handy boats them Vegas, that will 'spin' in circles adroitly, comfortably and continuously if you put the helm down and leave it there ..

And now the Vega gets the Dylan star treatment..

( Dunno why you're (still?) so keen on takin g Harmony to Hayling island Mr D, its a bugga of a drive, no shops, that bridge/commuters.. ?)
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£50 a week for a pontoon with lekkie for two months

D
 
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