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Have you often wondered where the yacht you sold years ago is now?

I'll kick off,

In about 1977 I bought a clinker built folkboat in Port Glasgow and had her trucked down to Campers in Gosport.

She was called Folksong and the reason I purchased her was to do the next Golden Globe (round the world singlehanded) race,I had just done the '76 OSTAR.

Thought better of it and sold her,still on the hard!

Anyone know her whereabouts?

Mad Pad
 
I bought Rogue, a Moody 44, in March 2006, from my father who had owned her from 2003. I sailed with him to Madeira in 2004, and my travels to Malta and back between 2006 and 2009 are chronicled here in an informal way.

I sold her in Feb 2010, the new owners planning to take her across the Atlantic and further afield. They published a blog which i followed with interest, and which I referred to here on occasion for information about the VP MD22L engine and transitting the Panama Canal, amongst other stuff.

In October I read that Rogue, (now called SigaSiga), had been sunk in a hurricane on the Pacific side of Mexico while the owners were in the UK. They raised her but as an insurance right off, the shell was sold and they are now searching for another boat.

http://www.sigasiga.co.uk/2016/11/16/farewell-siga-siga/

very sad, but I guess she will live again in another guise.

I told my father, and he suggested that one of the benefits of not owning a boat is that you wont get a phone call telling you that it's sunk :)
 
I've a reverse story. I was contacted by a yatch charterer in Cartagena, Columbia enquiring about my last boat, (Macwester 26 'Magna'). He'd bought it as a year old write-off after it lost a keel on piling and sank in Ramsgate Harbour.
The repair must have been good, I'd not noticed it 30 yrs later.
 
I used to own a Prout Quest 33CS called Tiger Lily. She went to Eire to Keith and Barbara Simpson but the last report I can find is on the cruiser forum of someone asking for any report - lost contact during a transatlantic crossing. I wonder how it turned out.

SWMBO was sad when I sold that boat - it was "her" boat because it didnt heel. Well not much anyway. Took us safely across Biscay a couple of times
 
I'd love to find Kelpie, possibly the last survivor of the 20' Innellan Class on the Clyde. She acquired a wishbone gaff with combined topsail (white) and mainsail (tan) although I understand she may have reverted back to conventional gaff rig. There was a spotting of her at Ardmaleish boatyard some years ago. For many years she belonged to a friend of my parents who is now very elderly and would like news of her adored boat.
 
I found my last boat (a Beneteau 345 called Fric Frac IV) last year at Chichester marina.

However, it would be nice to know where the following ones are:-

Jaguar 25 - Seawitch
Colvic Atlanta 32 - Solitude
Vivacity 650 - Little Gem
 
As a youth in the 1960s I sailed on a clinker Folboat named Folksong at Burnham on Crouch. Possibly the same one but I suspect Folksong was a popular name. The owner, "Uncle" Harry Duncan always claimed thar she was the first Folboat imported into UK. That's possible, the sail nr was F1, but he did like to tell a tale.
In those days all older friends were given the honorary "uncle" title, when did that die out?
 
DanTribe said:
As a youth in the 1960s I sailed on a clinker Folboat named Folksong at Burnham on Crouch. Possibly the same one but I suspect Folksong was a popular name. The owner, "Uncle" Harry Duncan always claimed thar she was the first Folboat imported into UK. That's possible, the sail nr was F1, but he did like to tell a tale.
In those days all older friends were given the honorary "uncle" title, when did that die out?
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Dan I don't recall the sail no but she did have a moulded coachroof having the appearance of a car roof!I thought she was Eastern European,but may be wrong.
Yes all my parents close friends were Uncle and Aunt.
Guess it died out in the 60's.

Another yacht I used to sail on was an 8 metre called the Severn.I think she was sold to the Clyde.
Cork harbour also has two more 8's the If and the Wye.

Mad,
Pad
 
And a few memorable ones from my delivery days,

Andrillot, believe she was the 1st Vertue built, Rendsberg(on the Kiel canal) to Chatham for an Army chappie.

Ocean Love , an Ocean 72, she did round Britain as Second Life.I took her from Pireaus to Singapore in the early 80's

Red Rock ,an aluminiun Argentinian Frers. I took her from Howth to Hamble in late 70's.



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I managed to track my late father's boat down to Southwold a few years ago. I had spent most of my Easter and Summer holidays on her and had very many very happy memories.

She was a bit of a a sad sight when I last saw her but was in good hands with repairs underway.



 
Fascadale said:
I managed to track my late father's boat down to Southwold a few years ago. I had spent most of my Easter and Summer holidays on her and had very many very happy memories.

She was a bit of a a sad sight when I last saw her but was in good hands with repairs underway.



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Has the looks of John Bain?

Where was she built and I guess mid 60's

Attached a John Bain built at Silvers in Rosneath 1955.

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r_h said:
This one - a former Two Tonner? This is just after the start of the return leg of the 2015 AZAB - a biggish boat for single-handed racing.

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I doubt it,(she was built lightly of Aluminium 40 years ago),this one is probably a later Red Rock.
I think the one I delivered belonged to an Otto Glaser,who might have had an electronics business in Ireland?
Doubt if she is still around.
Think she was Red Rock 3
 
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I'd love to know what happened to Westerley 33 "Lora of Burnham", sail number 177. My dad's boat, spent many happy summers as a kid cruising E & S coasts, France and Channel Islands. Wonderful boat.
 
I had Djinn Seng, the prototype Toledo 30. Sold her to Big Nige on the East Cosat. He apparently vacuumed up al the silverware that next season. Saw her in Brighton a few years later on the brokerage pontoon
 
the red one is Red Rock IV, a Frers design, sailed by an Argentinian team, now based in Portishead and looking really good! Sailed singlehanded mostly and raced a fair bit, AZAB, round ireland etc. Awesome boat. Was based in Ireland a bit before hand I believe?

Dont know if there is a Red Rock 3?
 
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