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[prv]

How are people at identifying the species of mushrooms growing on the pushpit and on the big stainless pole?

I think all three small mushrooms are GPS antennas/receivers. Near (but not at) the top of the pole I think is an EPIRB as you say; unusual location but presumably someone was very concerned about it getting tangled and failing to float free.

The two-foot GRP tube on the aft rail could be anything towards the lower frequencies; my guess would be Navtex. The thing at the top of the pole feels familiar but I can't place it; by its size it must be quite high frequency and I might guess maybe a satellite system like Iridium?

Pete

 

[pvb]

The thing at the top of the pole feels familiar but I can't place it; by its size it must be quite high frequency and I might guess maybe a satellite system like Iridium?

Yes, looks like an Inmarsat antenna.

 

[Kukri]

I think all three small mushrooms are GPS antennas/receivers. Near (but not at) the top of the pole I think is an EPIRB as you say; unusual location but presumably someone was very concerned about it getting tangled and failing to float free.

The two-foot GRP tube on the aft rail could be anything towards the lower frequencies; my guess would be Navtex. The thing at the top of the pole feels familiar but I can't place it; by its size it must be quite high frequency and I might guess maybe a satellite system like Iridium?

Pete

Thanks Pete; yes, of course, it's a Navtex antenna. The thing on the fore side of the pole is an EPIRB and the thing at the top of pole is the older style inmarsat C.

 

[Pete7]

Harumph, who put that wooden seat there? wasn't like that in my day, if you didn't have something to do, then you cleaned something. Shame they stripped her, but then the battle ship looking barometer that you peered in had a trilux inside it so probably not allowed today.

 

[Kukri]

That seat tends to attract off watch crew, particularly the teenage variety, and I'm not sure I'd be allowed to take it off! She's got an ex weather reporting ship barograph now; it will have to do.

I can understand why JSSTC stripped everything, given the weird way in which the Forces are financed, but the air did go a bit blue when we were crewing her sister Chaser to her new home and discovered en route that the no. 1 jib had no hanks! Peter Sanders told me why - those hanks are £60+VAT each! Best thought of as £864 x 2 towards the price of a furler...

The kukri on the bulkhead that John Morris recalls isn't there either. Probably just as well!

 

[Major_Clanger]

Definitely a hard cased Jon Buoy. We had one on a boat I worked aboard and thought it would be fun to inflate it one night after the pub. Bizarre little thing.

Beautiful boat Minn, she's really lovely!

 

[Kukri]

May I say “thank you!” to everyone who has chipped in here? I would never have identified it.

Designed by Raymond Wall, one of Britain’s greatest yacht designers but perhaps the most self effacing.

"one careful lady owner..."

 

[Pete7]

I cringe when I remember the way we stuffed the wet sails into the bags normally needing a closed fist to make them fit. Later further south we slept on them on deck each night in harbour as down below was a tad warm.

Can't remember which one, possibly Kukri had tens of thousands of holes drilled in the underside of the deck when we sailed her down round the Canaries 86 time. Looked like a peg board. Something to do with drying the deck out. Still at least it wasn't as bad as Dasher. Someone ran her aground hard the week before we were due to sail her. Hornet said she isn't going out of the Solent. We sailed her to Gib instead.

So many folk have sailed these yachts that she is bound to attract attention. Please do keep us up to date,be interesting to see photos as she is converted. Oh and the spinnaker pole end isn't original, we dropped it on the deck and it shattered the end piece all over the deck. Oops sorry.

Pete

 

[Kukri]

Dasher is the one that Hornet still retains, so logic suggests she must be the best now. A friend, who bought Chaser and talked me into buying Kukri, calculates that at least four thousand people have sailed on each of them so wherever you go there is someone who knows the boat.