simsimmer
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I'm based near the solent and would like to take my mother on a day trip on a classic yacht or sailing work-boat. Does anyone know of any that run in October?
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Trips on classic boats
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tidclacy
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If you are prepared to travel there are barges sailing out of Maldon in Essex and the http://www.classicsailingclub.com
BrokerBen
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Try here for now Ocean Village based Kitty for Solent based classic boat sailing.
http://www.sailingbargekitty.com/
http://www.sailingbargekitty.com/
Matteeboy
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Went on a 56ft 1917 Bristol Clipper from Southampton to Cherbourg last year on a stag do.
Force 9 winds, no other sailing craft out (a race was abandoned) and 12 hours of mostly being sick thanks to 10-15ft swell.
Not the finest day and two of us (the most ill) got a fast ferry back!
Force 9 winds, no other sailing craft out (a race was abandoned) and 12 hours of mostly being sick thanks to 10-15ft swell.
Not the finest day and two of us (the most ill) got a fast ferry back!
wrr
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Annabel-J is a fine-looking craft, based on a pilot cutter, that sails from Hamble. http://www.annabel-j.co.uk/ My only connection is that I pass her while transiting to and from my mooring!
alant
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Classic looking, but a relatively recent build.
SB Kitty was built in 1895, so must be worth a trip!
SB Kitty was built in 1895, so must be worth a trip!
jezjez
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been on Annabel J and had an amazing week to te Channel Islands this spring - remember the early summer weather?
It was great. I think they do taster days. Lovely boat only about 12 yrs old but never mind that...
It was great. I think they do taster days. Lovely boat only about 12 yrs old but never mind that...
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Dayspring
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Used to work on Kitty. She is lovely and sails beautifully, but the old skipper has just left and I think she's gone downhill a bit. they will sail in october and do passenger days.
grumpydog
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I would recommend a Thames Sailing Barge for mothers and the like (assuming, perhaps unfairly that your mother is a non-sailor!). They're big, stable and very grand, and the skipper will doubtless explain how they used to be operated by just a man and a boy! All good stuff though... I know there's one based in the Solent. I can't remember its name, but all the TSBs are on www.thamesbarge.org.uk. I recently bought my sister and her husband a day on Steve Norris's Greta, which operates out of Faversham / Whitstable and visits the old WW2 gun enplacements.