Your most memorable or evocative "boaty" song or music

Ours is Dark Side of the Moon. We used to go out on a Friday night from Ipswich Haven and potter off on The Orwell in the dark, playing Pink Floyd. It was very atmospheric. If we were lucky the moon shone to see us on our way.
 
Chas and Daves: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, ..................................... ..........................................................................................................................
 
OR4751 said:
https://vimeo.com/26072425
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Another poingnant choice.

I didn't know he (Tabarlay) was lost at sea, but from my rusty French it appears he was MOB - if so I'm not surprised as I didn't see him wearing a life-jacket or safety harness at any time in the video.

Amazing sailor all the same. And amazing seas - very sobering.

Again, from rusty French - did I read correctly that Pen Duick was 100 years old (surely not?), or her designer?
 
Sequoiah1 said:
Chas and Daves: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, ..................................... ..........................................................................................................................
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TUT tut TUT - little long-eared furry animals mentioned on a boat. Now THAT's irresponsible ;)
 
Robert Wilson said:
Again, from rusty French - did I read correctly that Pen Duick was 100 years old (surely not?), or her designer?
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She was - sort of.
Some drastic surgery took place.

The 36-rater Pen Duick (formerly Yum) was built in 1898 at the Gridiron and Workers shipyard, Ireland, to a Linear Rating Rule design by Scotsman William Fife III. The gaff-rigged cutter was quickly noted as a successful racer in British and French waters. Tabarly's father acquired her when Éric was seven years old, and the boy learnt to sail on her. After World War II, she was put on sale, but finding no takers, Éric convinced his father in giving her to him. Years later, he was told her wooden hull was rotten, and being unable to hire a yard to salvage her, proceeded to save her himself, making a mold to build her a new polyester hull: It was the largest of its kind at the time. He refitted her entirely, with a loftier rig for the southern climes. In the night of June 12 to 13 1998, Éric Tabarly fell overboard and was lost in the Irish Sea, while sailing the hundred-year-old cutter en-route to the Fife Regatta in Largs, Scotland.
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Baggywrinkle said:
'Oh I do like to be beside the seaside..' and 'A life on the ocean waves.."

Repeatedly sung to myself while battering through foul tides and driving rain on my parents boat as a child.

It symbolised a defiant stand against the elements and I still do it today when alone at the helm in crappy weather - last time was a hail-storm come whiteout while approaching Pula at the end of our June holiday. :D:D

.... am I mad?
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Not at all. I've done very similar although not those particular songs.

The last trip I did on Prince William, for some reason "Build me up, Buttercup" spread through the crew as the thing to bawl out while stowing topsails in bad weather.

Pete
 
OR4751 said:
She was - sort of.
Some drastic surgery took place.
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Couldn't quote your quote for some reason. Makes fascinating reading.

William Fife was/is my most revered designer/builder of boats - of all time. I'm hoping to get to see the next Fife Regatta, but as yet there are no details (or are there??)

How tragic that Tabarlay went MOB - just shows, no matter how good youare risks just cannot be taken.
 
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Robert Wilson said:
Another poingnant choice.

I didn't know he (Tabarlay) was lost at sea, but from my rusty French it appears he was MOB - if so I'm not surprised as I didn't see him wearing a life-jacket or safety harness at any time in the video.

Amazing sailor all the same. And amazing seas - very sobering.

Again, from rusty French - did I read correctly that Pen Duick was 100 years old (surely not?), or her designer?
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The original Pen Duick is now over 100 years and still going strong, thanks to Tabarly. The boat in the video was Pen Duick 2 (or 3?), the boat in which Tabarly won the OSTAR. He had a line of racers called Pen Duick running to nr 6.

Great man, I had the honor to meet him. Silent, self-conscious almost, but such a personality.
 
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