Yacht Designer Mornington Crescent

[dolabriform]

I'll play the matching initials gambit: Rob Humphreys

 

[Kukri]

Is it too early to play my wildcard?

Armitage shanks..

Blake’s of Gosport.

 

[dolabriform]

Blake’s of Gosport.

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Surely this should be disallowed, blakes don't design yachts

 

[Mark-1]

I've got you all just where I want you now.... Time to kick off step one of my winning master plan with:


Alan Johnstone

 

[Mark-1]

Surely this should be disallowed, blakes don't design yachts

I think you're forgetting the St John Adams-Butterworth formula in the appendix....

 

[dolabriform]

I think you're forgetting the St John Adams-Butterworth formula in the appendix....

Ahhhh... I should have guessed @Kukri would dig that out

 

[Tradewinds]

I've got you all just where I want you now.... Time to kick off step one of my winning master plan with:


Alan Johnstone

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I think you mean Brian Johnston the famous sailor who said

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey"

 

[Juan Twothree]

Surely this should be disallowed, blakes don't design yachts

It's a pity we're not playing poker.

That Blake's is a straight flush.

 

[Daydream believer]

Is it too early to play my wildcard?

Armitage shanks..

& there was me thinking it was Thomas Crapper

 

[Daydream believer]

Judel/Vrolijk &Co
Hanse 311

 

[Kukri]

Surely this should be disallowed, blakes don't design yachts

Ahem!

Applying the proviso in the St John -Adams-Butterworth formula relating to pre-WW2 yacht designers… we find:

Designed by William Maxwell BLAKE, built by Claud Whisstock, launched 8th August 1937, owned by the undersigned from 1984 to 2013.

 

[Kukri]

Avenger, designer builder and helmsman Uffa Fox, sailing up Lowestoft Harbour to the Nobs and Snobs to collect the Prince of Wales Trophy in 1927.

The three small steamships with bands of colour on their funnels are the Fishery Cruisers. They berthed here, and not in the Trawl Basin, because their crews “went to different pubs…”

 

[anoccasionalyachtsman]

Going for the Sleightholme Variation.

Victoria



Chuck Paine

 

[westhinder]

You guys have me completely stumped ?

edited to add: Wikipedia has come to the rescue, I can sleep soundly now

 

[Kukri]

Sean Carkeek and Sir Richard Matthews: Oystercatcher XXXV:

There’s a certain family resemblance to the Nat Harreshoff New York Fifty, “Spartan”, in post 35….

 

[Daydream believer]

View attachment 124222Sean Carkeek and Sir Richard Matthews: Oystercatcher XXXV:

When the "Fat arsed " doubters talk about them being "unbalanced I would suggest that those tiny rudders would disprove that wide sterned boats can be unbalanced. No way would blades that size be able to control a 70 ft boat if it did not want to go where the helms man said it had to go

 

[burgundyben]

Fred Cooper

 

[burgundyben]

John Bain

 

[Blueboatman]

Time to play the Saturday Triple Header chaps??
Dick Newick

 

[Ian_Rob]

Noah: