New Albert Strange Association website

[Dick Wynne]

The Albert Strange Association

A bit more informative than the last one

[Stephen]

Dick - The new website looks great - nice job.
Is there any way to participate in the forum of the website without paying the £10 membership? I have a few pictures of the "Tally Ho" that they might be interested in seeing.
Or I could post them here for you to pass on if you like.

[Dick Wynne]

Dick - The new website looks great - nice job.
Is there any way to participate in the forum of the website without paying the £10 membership? I have a few pictures of the "Tally Ho" that they might be interested in seeing.
Or I could post them here for you to pass on if you like.

Stephen, Many thanks -- the forum is a simple text-only one, and somewhat experimental with it! It would be great to see some snaps of TALLY HO, as you may know she languishes today as the motor fishing vessel ESCAPE at Brookings, Oregon, and is likely for the chop, her owner having abandoned her and port dues owing. She is afloat (last I heard) and overripe for a very deep-pocketed restoration. By all means post them here or email me: secretary at albertstrange dot org. CARLOTTA looks just wonderful.

[Stephen]

A sad state of affairs for a very historically important vessel. An Albert Strange designed gaff rigged cutter - 1927 Fastnet winner.
I looked at it in 1997 in Brookings, Oregon- the owner wanted $40k US and insisted it only needed a coat of paint!
The interior was full of wet coil-sprung matresses, fish pens, refridgerator units, etc. Bilge was full of goo - a few sistered frames from lying on a reef in the South Pacific - generally a real mess. Not much left in the way of fittings or rig. A shaft running the full length of the boat. Ugly wheelhouse added. Very heavily built though - I believe her shape is still there.

I told him I would be interested in taking her on if I could get it for next to nothing. But no go. I think it is tied up in a divorce somehow. Sad to hear she is virtually abandoned now - I hope someone can sort her out. It's getting more and more difficult to find boats like this worthy of restoration - you would think someone would snap this one up.

I can't find my pictures of what she looked like originally... perhaps someone else can offer some. Here she is in 97':

[Dick Wynne]

Many thanks for these pictures Stephen, we have nothing later than 1927! With your permission I'll put them on the ASA website. I had hoped to get the IYRS at Sausalito interested in her, but they have pulled out of what is now the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center, and the latter seem to focus only on indigenous local boats, not that there's anything wrong with that. Anyone with a million or so to spare -- here's a worthy cause! Here she is under a small cloud of sail, in her 1927 heyday:

[Stephen]

, please do post them on your site - perhaps it will drum up some interest in her.