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My son and I did the Raid in 2003, shipping our 15ft David Moss canoe yawl there from England and flying out to join it. We sailed through the many islands on the Finnish west coast that year. A...

To give you an idea, copyright in the UK persists for 70 years after first publication, or the death of any one of the authors, whichever is the later. This applies to any work of art, literature or...

:D Well it is Friday. My lawnmower is an Italian brand with 3-position height adjustment. I discovered the adjustment is to remove all 4 wheels and screw them on somewhere else.

Could ask the publisher, but I don't think so. Still in copyright so you won't find a free (and legal) electronic copy.

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I forget if I posted this before, but it's well worth a look & listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKChbfo4FLI

Non-UK readers: His is an Essex accent (you could cut with a spade)

Dick

Thanks to one and all for your responses - it's for the chop...

The literature is coy on this subject. Charm (33ft) has a leg-o-mutton mizzen with, to my mind, too much bag low down, and although this aids driving, it is useless for holding her head-to-wind and...

Yes she is quite salty and jaunty, I'd say 100 lbs is about right. I put some gunnel guard around her to protect the mother ship's topsides, not cheap, but worth it. Not sold in Europe, I had to get...

I can recommend the Joel White "Shellback", kit available from our hosts, plenty secondhand I imagine in the US. Mine, Grace, is tender to Charm. Sails, rows and tows like a dream. Here are...

Donald / J Dillon -- for technical reasons I replaced the pictures linked to in my original posts, and this broke the images in your replies. Sorry about that. If you delete those posts and...

And here's another one Donald...

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Watercolour by Maurice Bush, 2004. I may have the reds a bit strong in this photo.

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And here are the Albert Strange TALLY HO and the English-built Alden schooner LA GOLETA approaching the Fastnet Rock at the eye of a...

Here is an early 20th Century Hull Trawler, a recent watercolour by my friend Tony Watts, which he kindly gave me and is now framed on my wall.
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I used heavy-duty velcro for Constance's nameboards, worked fine, and gives you some space behind, which you can reduce from about 1/8" or less, by recessing into the back of the board. I couldn't...

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I have his book "Old Man of the Sea" but no knowledge of his present whereabouts. I would just take care with the wording when exhibiting the boat, as magnificent though his Pacific voyage was, his...

Went on board a few weeks ago, only at the dock though. Not at all bad...

Interestingly, in the UK anyway, your car has to be rated to tow the gross 'plated' weight of your trailer even though that weight may never be attained, in fact you can't legally tow an empty...

Sure, if you PM me with it I can add your email to my (infrequent!) mailing list.

Both books should reappear in 2013 from some upstart nautical publisher. We ummed and ahhed about new editions of the text, but decided to leave them as they are. The original plates/films are lost...

A few weeks back I posted on BETTY -- this is to let you know that the Albert Strange Association is referring to her henceforth as TALLY HO, the name she held for most of her life and, most...

Mine arrived yesterday -- in London!

I should have mentioned that Thad is already heavily implicated in this project, with the hearty thanks of the UK end!

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Thought I would start this thread as a place to put updates on Betty and avoid thread drift elsewhere. Latest is...

Hi Ed,

She was a delight in every way, an absolute jewel to look at and a joy to sail, rowed well too. Here is my pal Jamie Clay trying her out last year:
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I have been tardy in getting Thad's account onto the ASA website... soon!

For her first ever sail I took my wife on the stiffest boat imaginable, a Thames barge, on what turned out to be a beautiful weekend. :)

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Yes, when Charles swallowed the anchor a couple of years ago he passed her to Tony Smith who runs the Creeksailor blog and knows every inch of the Blackwater and its creeks.

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I learn from Charles' successor as keeper of Shoal Waters, that he died the night before last, aged...

It's always been fashionable to dismiss Scott as a bungler, and has suited the agenda of some authors, but read the utterly persuasive contrary account of him (and demolition of Roland Huntford) by...

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A bit short notice, but the Strangers gather at Pyefleet in Essex from this Friday, and welcome all-comers whio can get there, ideally...

This is perhaps our best angle on the day (Saturday, at last Weekend's Old Gaffers' Rally on the River Stour) given the absence of wind and the tops'l sprawled across the coachroof as we fiddled with...

Haha, well I don't have that many Norm but someone just sent me a few they took of us at the weekend, I'll try to get them here tonight (London time) if they show us in a good light. Those with our...

Well yes I think so. I am joint owner with my friend Russell Read who restored her from a shell some years ago. I am gradually buying his half from him as he migrates to power in what he calls his...

Sorta. Charm, at 33ft on deck, is a 1922 stretch of the 1917 29ft Venture. She's the sister to Thad's Sea Harmony (1937 I think). Both were built in Norfolk, UK. Designed by Albert Strange of course!

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... and give me a shove . . .

I just don't know where I'm supposed to look on the new homepage as everything has equal prominence, and stuff popping up unbidden as I move the mouse (without even clicking something) doesn't help....

All the Beeb and the other meeja wanted was a pretty scene to compare with the Canaletto. An opportunity missed, on behalf of this maritime nation, to kindle the public interest in our floating...

So windy in this one, we nearly had Nun of the Above:

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and before you ask ... No!!!

FWIW, I just sold a Pfaff ClassicStyle 1525 which I used for boat cover work, the mechanism is same as used in some deep-throated sailmaking machines, it chomped through 4 layer seams of Top Gun like...

Space and life too short to re-read them, collect or I might deliver locally,

Dick

We cook & heat on Charm courtesy of Taylor and love it, but could use a fan to move the warm air down to where it'd do our feet more good.

Have been on board Steven, and sailed in company with her, lovely boat. By the way, Holmes' EEL should finally sail again this year, after 20+ years ashore, I met her restorer Alan Staley the other...

In designer Paul Spooner's defence, he has been the keeper of George Holmes' Snippet for a few years now, his heart is definitely in the right place.
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Good to have that clarified Scot. My links are to two "not-for-profit" and one "non-profit"...

Calls for a modification to the exchange heard at parties:

"I'm writing a novel, you know"

"Neither am I"

Now half-way through and still really enjoying it. I think he deserves a more mainstream publisher, your library may not find the books at their supplier, but there are quite a few such series these...

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