Your most memorable or evocative "boaty" song or music

You are so right!

westhinder said:
Thanks for The Grey Funnel Line. Try and find the version on the Silly Sisters album, pure magic!
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Maddy & Junes harmonies could put a tear in your eye and make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck ….. just some of the very best. :)

The closest I can find at the moment:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/silly-sisters-mw0000201024

I can’t find their version, but here are another couple of quality tracks / versions of the song:





OG.
 
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Evocative music

Hum this quietly to myself as a sort of superstition as we motor down the river to the sea and get the mainsail out. Hearing the real thing still brings a lump to my throat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPyNW3vegc

And of course, Sailing By, remember listening to this and promising myself that one day I would fall asleep on my own boat, at anchor, listening to that. That's why I miss so many bloody shipping forecasts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74

And Mingulay as we leave for home
 
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To the tune of Morningtown

Rocking rolling gybing
Out amongst the spray
Somewhere there's a mooring
With a pub. ot far away

My stomach's feeling queesy
I know the reason why
I am getting seasick
It makes me want to die

White horses on the sea now
All galloping this way
Wind is rising very fast
Its such a filthy day

What happened to the weather
The forecast promissed sun
Instead its raining cats and dogs
I do not call this fun

The skiper looks detirmined
The bit between his teeth
No chance ir retiring
Or putting in a reef

Were past the half way point now
We have to carry pn
Three. ore hours of hell now
before the finifsh gun..

At last the pub is in sight
All nessling by the shore
Thank god at last we made it
I could not take much more

All standing by the bar now
Each with a pint of beer
Its been such a lovely sail

The best by far tbis year



We made up the lyricks one weekend on a Viking 8.2 chartered from Maldon going up the Wallet to the Butt & Oyster... The movement really was awfull
 
Farewell to Tarwathie (Judy Collins)

Gwylan said:
Hum this quietly to myself as a sort of superstition as we motor down the river to the sea and get the mainsail out. Hearing the real thing still brings a lump to my throat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPyNW3vegc

And of course, Sailing By, remember listening to this and promising myself that one day I would fall asleep on my own boat, at anchor, listening to that. That's why I miss so many bloody shipping forecasts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74

And Mingulay as we leave for home
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Wow! Brings a busy, noisy and crowded world to a gentle, silent and mesmerised pause.
Thank you.
 
Robert Wilson said:
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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I was at the Regatta in question and still choke-up at the memory of the solitary sad lady sat on the deck of Penduik in Largs Marina.
Evidently the people on board with him had no MOB training, and he didn't "do" VHF....


On a brighter note - thanks for this thread, thoroughly enjoying most of the favourites and the associated tunes on the same Utube page.
You will all be relieved that I have avoided introducing you to the 'Crinan Canal for Me' and others associated with the Vital Spark. I had to brace myself, strong drink saved you all.
 
I'd forgotten that tune!

Tomahawk said:
Rocking rolling gybing
Out amongst the spray
Somewhere there's a mooring
With a pub. ot far away

My stomach's feeling queesy
I know the reason why
I am getting seasick
It makes me want to die

White horses on the sea now
All galloping this way
Wind is rising very fast
Its such a filthy day

What happened to the weather
The forecast promissed sun
Instead its raining cats and dogs
I do not call this fun

The skiper looks detirmined
The bit between his teeth
No chance ir retiring
Or putting in a reef

Were past the half way point now
We have to carry pn
Three. ore hours of hell now
before the finifsh gun..

At last the pub is in sight
All nessling by the shore
Thank god at last we made it
I could not take much more

All standing by the bar now
Each with a pint of beer
Its been such a lovely sail

The best by far tbis year
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So I’ve just sung it along with the Seekers …… brilliant! .... off now to give it a play! :)

Going to pinch this one & when on the Pontoon, at the Bar or on any large-ish vessel I’m going to give it an airing! ...... more of the same please! :)
 
Billjratt said:
I was at the Regatta in question and still choke-up at the memory of the solitary sad lady sat on the deck of Penduik in Largs Marina.
Evidently the people on board with him had no MOB training, and he didn't "do" VHF....


On a brighter note - thanks for this thread, thoroughly enjoying most of the favourites and the associated tunes on the same Utube page.
You will all be relieved that I have avoided introducing you to the 'Crinan Canal for Me' and others associated with the Vital Spark. I had to brace myself, strong drink saved you all.
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OUCH! WHAT a painful thought.

Now, "The Vital Spark" - THAT was a great programme to watch. Can it still be found anywhere?
Wonderful characters and storylines.
 
westhinder said:
The original Pen Duick is now over 100 years and still going strong, thanks to Tabarly.
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Yes and no. The original Fife designed Pen Duick belonged to his father but, in time, it was completely rotten and not capable of being restored. Eric Tabarly therefore used the old hull as a male mould and laid up a glass fibre hull on it. It was the largest such construction in its time.
 
Sybarite said:
My understanding was that he was on night watch and the others were below asleep.

His body came up in an Irish trawl net some time later.
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Ghastly.

And a poignant coincidence with the current "Missing Lady down South-West" and our own tragedy up here, "The Gairloch canoe capsize". Still no sign of the man's body after many weeks now. A truly traumatic (and avoidable) incident. I gather one NEVER stands-up in a Canadian Canoe?

Probably not the place/thread to discuss Tabarlay, South-West or Gairloch Canoe. This "music" will get high-jacked, as is so often the annoying case.
Start a new thread?
 
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